IronFox is pretty good. My only gripe with it is that my password store doesn’t recognize it as a web browser.
For example, in Firefox if I go to gitlab.com and sign in, my password store does a lookup for passwords that have gitlab.com in the path. But with IronFox the lookup is for IronFox, which is similar to what happens if I use a qr code reader app to open a link in webview. But I have webview disabled so I think it’s just something proprietary in Firefox that was striped out.
I found an explanation here. They’re deliberately not including it in the main f-droid repository for security reasons.
I think it’s extremely unlikely that there’s a reason other than what they’ve stated here, but at the same time this isn’t so important to me that I’m willing to begin making exceptions to my policy against installing any software that doesn’t make it into official f-droid.
I believe fennec is maintained and operated by Mozilla, so if your goal is to get away from that then IronFox is probably a few steps further in that direction.
No, but IronFox is a great privacy fork for Android.
IronFox is pretty good. My only gripe with it is that my password store doesn’t recognize it as a web browser.
For example, in Firefox if I go to gitlab.com and sign in, my password store does a lookup for passwords that have gitlab.com in the path. But with IronFox the lookup is for IronFox, which is similar to what happens if I use a qr code reader app to open a link in webview. But I have webview disabled so I think it’s just something proprietary in Firefox that was striped out.
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It’s on F-Droid,
but you’ve gotta add their repo:
fdroidrepos://fdroid.ironfoxoss.org/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=C5E291B5A571F9C8CD9A9799C2C94E02EC9703948893F2CA756D67B94204F904
That link can also be found on their Gitlab:
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox#ironfox
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I found an explanation here. They’re deliberately not including it in the main f-droid repository for security reasons.
I think it’s extremely unlikely that there’s a reason other than what they’ve stated here, but at the same time this isn’t so important to me that I’m willing to begin making exceptions to my policy against installing any software that doesn’t make it into official f-droid.
Is Ironfox better than fennec right now?
I believe fennec is maintained and operated by Mozilla, so if your goal is to get away from that then IronFox is probably a few steps further in that direction.