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Ask HN: Alternatives to Android Firefox Browser?

3 pointsby dvanwagabout 6 years ago
With the debacle of Mozilla's signed certificates expiring my favorite addons for Firefox for Android have all become broken. This is highly annoying as since my adblocker no longer functions I have discovered just how unreadable the web has become. Are there similar browser out there that posses the same capabilities? And maybe respect a users privacy?

4 comments

user8273about 6 years ago
IceCatMobile on F-Droid and many others. It's is very decent and not chromium based.
maverick74about 6 years ago
WT...? Addons are already functional again!!! Just update Firefox ;)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;09&#x2F;what-we-do-when-things-go-wrong&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;09&#x2F;what-we-do-when-thi...</a><p>About alternatives: as Ultramanoid said, there is no other decent browser. If you want privacy and respect your only choice is Firefox. Everything else is Chromium based (or as i would put it: &quot;spyware based&quot;).<p>(Edit: You naturally have a few browsers based on firefox as well, such as Tor Browser, Waterfox and so on... but Firefox is the real deal ;)
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Ultramanoidabout 6 years ago
Short answer; no. Everything else is based on Chromium, which is basically Google-sponsored spyware.<p>That said, try Bromite : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bromite.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bromite.org</a><p>Edit : Unclear from your question if you&#x27;re aware that the problem was fixed -- just update to the latest version.
dvanwagabout 6 years ago
Thank you all for the recommendations, definitely leaning towards IceCat mobile. I&#x27;ll be playing around with it tonight.