bromite-buildtools VS mullvad-browser

If you're looking for a Bromite successor, right now best way is to download the uazo builds direct from GitHub: https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools There are some third party tools that will download the releases for you, but I'm fine to just manually pop by the repo whenever ungoogled-chromium[0] updates on my desktop.

[0] https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

Personally I use this Chromium build. Being developed by one of the guys who worked on Bromite. With all its features.

Hmm, Thorium should be fine, at the very least? Its very close to vanilla Chromium/Google Chrome, with nothing that should mess up rendering.

There are also experimental builds of Bromite (another Chrome fork that is very close to Chromium, but with a light built-in adblocker.)

https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools#test-windows-vers...

Many Bromite users now are moving to this. https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools These builds are built by uazo, the primary contributor to Bromite other than Carl, the original developer

One of the Devs of Bromite has made a Chromium browser with all of Bromites features. Updated regularly as well. You can get it from here

Bromite via either its site/Fdroid, GitHub or Woolyss site has a bottom bar available in accessibility settings. (The first one has been unmaintained for a while, but has auto updates available if they ever drop. The other two are up to date but must be updated manually.)

Mull is my recommendation. If its too strict for you or breaks things, Fennec F-Droid is great too. If you need Chromium, Brave is probably the best option at the moment. You could also try uazo's build of Bromite, which is basically just a version of Bromite created by one of Bromite's developers, except up to date and with some tweaks/enhancements, though it is in beta so it could be buggy and not as refined.

> - it is much easier to recommend to user a browser pre-configured for an optimal privacy: some users will want to tinker, but if you don't have the time or knowledge, it's hard to do the right thing

> There are also more differences than "just a fork of Firefox", I encourage you to read the following page which goes more into the details: https://mullvad.net/en/browser/hard-facts

source: https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/issues/1

A librewolf contributor and arkenfox developer chimes in as well stating that it's no competition that mullvad-browser is more secure here:

https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/issues/1#issuecom...

So as much as I despise companies putting low effort into software rebrands that offer no value, all the facts point towards that very much not being the case here.

I don't think they've added a subreddit, but they linked to their github repo before

the librewolf maintainers are trustworthy - i know user fixbrit, the librewolf macos maintainer, is also, if i'm not mistaken, the macos maintainer of mullvad browser, the browser collaboration between mullvad vpn and tor

further reading, for anyone looking for an alt browser: arkenfox (af) v librewolf (lw) v mullvad browser (mb) from the af owner, mv maintainer, and lw, ff, & tor contributor: https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/issues/1#issuecom...

It is not recommended to use Tor Browser through a VPN. If you want to reduce fingerprinting / privacy while using a VPN, use Mullvad Browser, a hardened Firefox (e. g. Arkenfox or Librewolf. On mobile you could use Firefox Focus or even better: Mull (Privacy hardened Firefox for Android).

Relevant issue: https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/issues/24

Don’t know why you can’t just download 12.0.4 anymore from the website though but you can get it on GitHub .

Known issue and is likely to remain the case as it's an upstream thing.