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IronFox is an Android-focused, privacy‑hardened fork of Mozilla Firefox that continues the Mull Browser lineage and aims to remove Mozilla telemetry/services while adding fingerprinting and other hard...
most often point readers to a small set of options: mainstream for power users, hardened Firefox forks like LibreWolf and Waterfox, anonymity-specialists like Tor, and Chromium-based privacy-first cho...
IronFox is a recent privacy‑hardened fork of Mull (itself a DivestOS project) built on Firefox and pitched as “Firefox with privacy hardening baked in” for Android and desktop users . Public compariso...
For , the community evidence points to a tradeoff: offers close compatibility with and add‑on support that users value, while positions itself as the actively maintained successor to the discontinued ...
Fennec F‑Droid is an F‑Droid–packaged build of for Android that aims to strip proprietary binaries and telemetry from ’s upstream releases while keeping the engine and feature set of modern Firefox bu...
A small but growing set of open-source Android keyboards promote privacy and run locally, and several of those have Play Store entries or test tracks — but availability differs by project and some pri...
— the longstanding mobile build of — and IronFox — described in reporting as a fork of the DivestOS Mull Browser — occupy different places in the privacy/browser ecosystem: Fennec is essentially Firef...
A number of actively maintained open-source Android keyboards explicitly advertise that they do not send typing telemetry: AnySoftKeyboard, OpenBoard (and forks like HeliBoard), FlorisBoard, Simple Ke...
DuckDuckGo’s Privacy Browser is officially available for iOS and Android mobile devices and—per DuckDuckGo itself—also offered for macOS and Windows desktop platforms . Reporting and app repositories ...
IronFox, in the contexts covered by available sources, most prominently refers to an open-source, privacy-focused Android web browser developed and distributed by a community project calling itself Ir...
are both ‑based Android browsers that position themselves as privacy‑oriented, but the available reporting does not include actual packet captures or enumerated network endpoints for either app, so an...
A range of open‑source Android keyboards is available on F‑Droid — notable examples include AnySoftKeyboard, Hacker’s Keyboard, FlorisBoard, Unexpected Keyboard, HeliBoard (Heliboard), Tiny Keyboard a...
IronFox is a highly hardened Android fork of Firefox that strips telemetry, enables strict Enhanced Tracking Protection by default, and bundles uBlock Origin with custom lists; it also implements Fiss...
remains the pragmatic choice for users who want a -based mobile browser with wide addon support and familiar controls, but community reports flag concerns about update cadence on F‑Droid that could af...
builds APKs in isolated, disposable build VMs and signs repository metadata and packages with PGP/ keys (or per‑app signing keys) managed on separate signing machines; and public build logs are core c...
F‑Droid’s model centers on building packages from source, signing them with either F‑Droid’s key or the developer’s key when reproducible builds allow it, and delivering updates via its client or priv...
F‑Droid is a community-run, open‑source Android app repository that emphasizes transparency and minimal tracking, and many of its apps are built from source and flagged for “anti‑features” like tracki...
IronFox presents as a small, GitLab‑centric Android browser project with a sparse public web presence and mirrored repositories, while LibreWolf is a more established Firefox fork with multiple GitLab...
Users can verify how often publishes new browser builds by checking F‑Droid’s publish/index frequency and repository status endpoints, and they can verify build integrity by using F‑Droid’s , tooling ...
ships as an integrated, user-toggleable component and preserves ’s verified-boot/locked-bootloader model, whereas does not include MicroG by default and relies on users or third-party builds to add it...