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What extensions would you absolutely recommend to someone who use Firefox? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by kingpepe8006@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Or a fork of Firefox like fennec

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[–] Entertain529@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For android mobile I use Ironfox.

https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox

Its a fork of the now discontinued Mull browser.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I've tried it a few times but tend to fall back to Fennec. While Librewolf on desktop is restrictive by design, it also still allows you tweak the settings to your liking (with some scolding). Ironfox felt much more locked down to me, and if a site was completely broken, I couldn't do anything about it in the settings.

[–] oaklandnative@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I went on the same path. I was surprised how many sites were broken in IronFox.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

I know the mobile browser space is just weird overall, especially Firefox forks, but it definitely stood out to me. Things that work totally fine in Librewolf out-of-the-box were totally busted, and most settings are inaccessible.

I'm still keeping an eye on it though, as Fennec leaves a lot to be desired, and using a chromium-based browser like Vanadium won't do it for me because I rely so much on the cross-platform sync functions.

[–] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

Ohhh, I loved Mull. Good to hear someone forked it.