IronFox
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A privacy-hardened Firefox variation for Android, comparable to LibreWolf on desktops. It removes Mozilla tracking and services like Pocket, but keeps sync (which is end-to-end encrypted) and local translations (which happen on your device). Like LibreWolf, it disables or narrows some features that can leak data, but those changes can break some websites.
Using it is similar to using mobile Firefox, and virtually identical to using mobile Waterfox. Iām trying both out on the same phone and I sometimes forget which one Iām using. The biggest noticeable difference is that IronFox doesnāt support WebGL unless I dig through advanced settings to re-enable it. (Update: When I was trying both out back in March, Waterfox was missing in-browser translations, but both apps support them now.)
Even then, Iāve still had trouble with a few sites failing to work correctly. The worst is when an error pops up at the end of a checkout process, and you canāt be sure whether the order didnāt get created, or the response didnāt make it to your phone ā and Iāve had both happen just in the past few days.
IronFoxās web presence is minimal ā mainly its Gitlab repository and mirrors. I imagine this is at least in part because itās (sort of) a new project, picking up the Mull browser from DivestOS, which was discontinued in December. Itās not on Google Play, but itās on several alternative app stores, including F-Droid (you need to add their repo), Accrescent and Obtanium.