In fact the only way to completely stop “phoning home” in Firefox is to block connections (via for example privoxy).
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horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 3 months agoAh, thanks for the clarification. I was under the impression it didn’t call out to mozilla servers if you didn’t enable sync.
I guess Mullvad would be the next popular browser yeah?
ded@lemy.lol 3 months ago
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
What? Some proof here please. Firefox is 100% open source. You can audit the entire code for this.
It’s not like chromium with the pre-compiled binary blob in the middle provided by google.
ded@lemy.lol 3 months ago
I may have missed prefs. But typically Firefox will still connect to Mozilla after config such as user.js or autoconfig.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
And again. 100% open source. There is no way for any functionality (including functionalitt that does that) to exist somewhere that people making forks can’t modify/remove it.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 months ago
afaict Mullvad browser doesn’t support plugins which - it does some adblock by default (more ifyou have the VPN) and so on but i gots to have my DarkViewer so it’s a sometimes browser for me atm.
WrittenInRed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
It does work with Firefox plugins, there just isn’t a button to open the extension “store” in the extensions settings page like stock Firefox has. You can add them by manually going to the url though, it’s just recommended that you don’t since that increases your risk of adding a malicious plugin or being fingerprinted, etc. I still added a few plugins that I really dislike not having though, like a password manager and darkreader, just because I valued the convenience slightly more than the added security.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Nice, thanks!