Made the switch to IronFox. First impressions.
from emotional_soup_88@programming.dev to privacy@lemmy.ml on 26 Mar 11:46
https://programming.dev/post/47806969

Following what I learned over at programming.dev/post/47796780 about Brave I decided to switch to IronFox, which is also recommended by LibreWolf.

I wasn’t able to find the damn ~/Bookmarks directory.

I tried to create one under /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.ironfoxoss.ironfox/files/ and copied my Brave bookmarks.html file into it, but to no avail. I ended up manually copying the bookmarks into IronFox, since I couldn’t find any import function.

The documentation and FAQs are top notch, as in relevant and concise.

I love the developers’ opennes about the limitations

My hardware security key - a Yubico Yubikey - didn’t work “out of the box” as it did with Brave, but lo and behold, IronFox had a solution. I have never used Android’s function to manage passkeys before, so I’m unsure of the security and/or privacy implications.

All in all, I can strongly recommend this browser based on my initial impressions! Also:

#privacy

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fluckx@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 15:02 next collapse

For some reason it refuses to load a ( local ) http site for me. I have no idea why.

No complaints otherwise.

emotional_soup_88@programming.dev on 26 Mar 17:02 collapse

All http or just a particular site?

fluckx@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 18:31 collapse

I haven’t tried any other ones actually. But this specific one is configured with mDNS and I think that might be the cause.

I’d have to check.

lemmyng@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 15:07 next collapse

Hard agree that bookmark import/export would make transitioning to IronFox much more incentivizing, but aside from that, I love how hardened it is.

emotional_soup_88@programming.dev on 26 Mar 17:01 collapse

Yep. I mean, in this particular case it took me what… Five minutes to switch to a more privacy friendly and ethical option. :D

RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works on 26 Mar 16:47 collapse

I import bookmarks into Librewolf and sync with Ironfox though a Mozilla account. Just a matter of getting the bookmarks file onto a desk/laptop.

emotional_soup_88@programming.dev on 26 Mar 17:00 next collapse

Sweet! Thanks for the tip! :)

eldavi@lemmy.ml on 26 Mar 17:08 collapse

you can’t just use your firefox account with ironfox?