mulch VS user.js

Mulch System WebView (version 548106403): Security oriented WebView

Use Mulch

https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mulch [patches from vanadium] Chromium

I tried installing Mulch WebView on my device which runs plain LineageOS (no DivestOS available, sadly) and discovered that it won't install due to it having same app "name" (com.andriod.webview) but a different signature. Is it possible to somehow bypass that and is it even a good idea to install it in the first place? Got the apk from DivestOS prebuilts on gitlab (https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mulch/-/tree/master/prebuilt/arm64)

My Mulch works on any Android 6.0 device and has nearly all of the Vanadium patches included: https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mulch/-/blob/master/patches/VERSIONS

Mulch (version 500507815): Alternative web browser

Re: firefox and privacy, if you want to use firefox for privacy, consider using https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js . There is a case to be made that Firefox (with arkenfox's user.js) is one of the best privacy-respecting but still fairly usable browsers.

For extensions, I recommend people follow the recommendations[1] in the arkenfox repo and either harden their firefox or use librewolf. Umatrix is unmaintained since 2019.

[1] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

For macOS : Thunderbird and you can harden it even more with this : https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

only arkenfox

This article is shit. https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/ is what you want.

If you make time to dig through settings and change them away from their official use (99% of users don't), then you should use a customized setup (in this case, a user.js). That way, you're good to go no matter what Firefox fork you use.

> Firefox remains a stable option to come back to everytime

Don't get me wrong, I've been using Firefox for the last decade and I don't intend on using anything else for the foreseeable future, but Mozilla has no idea what they're doing with Firefox nowadays. Firefox View is the most useless thing I've ever seen, that expiring "independent voices" theme picker was some weird hippie stunt[1], the latest UI redesign which split the tab from the window looks hideous, and it's not like Firefox doesn't have things you can tweak for a more private experience[2]. I miss Firefox Test Pilot where they tried out different new features, I found a lot of them to be very useful but sadly lots of them didn't make it.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/in...

[2] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/

Like others have said you can customize the browser to the point that it doesn't even look like the default anymore. Or customize it to maximize privacy.