Phoenix is a suite of configurations & advanced modifications for Mozilla Firefox, designed to put the user first - with a focus on privacy, security, freedom, & usability. - GitHub - cele...

Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated to the project.

Aside from the fact that it’s relatively new and unknown, does this hold a candle to other Firefox-based projects? They seem to be competent by their own comparison tables.

Has anyone got any first-hand experience?

  • @[email protected]English
    3•1 day ago

    It looks reasonable with their table. Not sure if I want to try it though, enabling a lot of the privacy features like resist fingerprinting often breaks login flows, and breaks dark mode detection on sites. It also does some stuff like disabling URL bar suggestions that really impacts usability.

    Overall I’d say these things are only worth it if you don’t use your browser to do normal every day things like banking, shopping, and watching media.

    • @[email protected]OP
      1•14 hours ago

      enabling a lot of the privacy features like resist fingerprinting often breaks login flows

      True. Though, in this case, it’s only enabled on hardened. So, the default config doesn’t enable it.

      and breaks dark mode detection on site

      Yeah, that’s really unfortunate. I suppose there’s Dark Reader. But, I believe Arkenfox’ maintainers held the opinion that a bandaid solution as such did more harm then worth it. At least for those that enable RFP for the sake of fingerprint protection.

    • @[email protected]
      2•1 day ago

      The resistfingerprinting option works well but as you said breaks a lot of stuff. Sometimes subtly in ways that are hard to trace back to the fact that you enabled it. It should only be used by those in a special profile they created specifically for the purpose of using it, IMO

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 day ago

        Yeah and I wouldn’t mind if there was a button I could click to whitelist a domain from all the privacy protections, but FF doesnt have that.

  • @Bz1sen
    2•1 day ago

    Thanks for sharing. Interesting, for Android they recommend IronFox.

    IronFox is a fork of Divested Computing Group’s Mull Browser, based on Mozilla Firefox. Our goal is to continue the legacy of Mull by providing a free and open source, privacy and security-oriented web browser for daily use.

    • @[email protected]OP
      1•15 hours ago

      Thanks for sharing.

      Thanks for the appreciation!

      Our goal is to continue the legacy of Mull by providing a free and open source, privacy and security-oriented web browser for daily use.

      Do you work on IronFox?

      • @Bz1sen
        2•12 hours ago

        Sorry, no. I only found this quote from their IronFox recommendation/link. Should’ve put this into quotes