vopono VS mullvad-browser

Vopono (https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono):

"vopono is a tool to run applications through VPN tunnels via temporary network namespaces. This allows you to run only a handful of applications through different VPNs simultaneously, whilst keeping your main connection as normal.

vopono includes built-in killswitches for both Wireguard and OpenVPN."

I think for now on Linux you (still!) have to use external application to do the splitting. Such is vopono

I use vopono to manage it for me with Mullvad though.

you might want to check out vopono, i've gotten it working with firefox and its nice

https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono

I highly recommend using something like vopono with this on Linux that runs only the target application (e.g. Transmission) in a network namespace in the VPN and only forwards the specified ports and only allows traffic via the VPN.

This is why I use vopono - you can run just the torrent client in the VPN on its own and the killswitch keeps it safe.

You can find the option in the settings of windows and android apps. Unfortunately, it's Still not available for Linux. As a workaround for Linux, you can use vopono, which has OpenVPN support for Proton. Or just manually add routing table entries :)

I wrote vopono, I use it all the time for quickly spinning up browsers through different VPNs for checking geographical restrictions, etc.

> - 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.