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Why not use Privacy Browser? Its Foss and has many settings to limit the amount of information being sent by default. Firefox may not be super fast but still does the job much better with addons like Ublock-origin Also, most people do not hate the UI. Rather the tracking from google.
I would also be careful with using closed webview based apps since you won't know if they sellout untill a ad update gets pushed to you. Here's a post by Privacy web author about one such email: https://www.stoutner.com/stoutner-will-never-sell-privacy-browser-to-a-scummy-company/
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.stoutner.privacybrowser.standard/
isn't privacy browser too using webview?
Yeah, but its Foss and also unlike berry browser limits the amount of requests and information being sent to minimal at the cost of even breaking function by default.
I recommend firefox or fennec from fdroid but you can use Privacy browser if you want a webview version.
i use
Curious why?
I took a brief look and found some experience breaking changes like no dark mode and a general don't do this since it can be a privacy risk even at the cost of speed which firefox has not been known for ages.
Some points which I observed:
Dark Reader is known to be incompatible with IronFox's changes and will cause significant breakage/slowdowns.
Dark mode for websites is disabled due to resist fingerprinting. Please do not disable RFP.
IronFox disables the JavaScript JIT to increase security at the cost of slowing down webapps, complex websites, and the PDF viewer. Navigate to
about:configand changejavascript.options.ionandjavascript.options.baselinejittotrueto restore their performance, though this is not recommended.IronFox has strict certificate revocation checks. The CA revocation servers are occasionally down/blocked/inaccessible, so you may see a "Secure Connection Failed" error from time to time. Navigate to
about:configand changesecurity.OCSP.requiretofalse, this is however a security and privacy risk.IronFox requires safe renegotiation for connections. Certain websites do not support this and will result in a "Secure Connection Failed" error. Please report these errors to the impacted websites. You can navigate to
about:configand setsecurity.ssl.require_safe_negotiationtofalseto disable the requirement for safe renegotiations, this is however a security and privacy riskIronFox has stripped referrers. This often breaks loading of images on websites with hotlink protection. Navigate to
about:configand changenetwork.http.referer.XOriginPolicyfrom2to1(or0if you're still having issues), this is however a privacy risk.IronFox has visited link highlighting disabled by default. Navigate to
about:configand changelayout.css.visited_links_enabledtotrueif needed, this is however a privacy riski was using Mull before "forking" to ironFox.
uBlock is there to block all JavaScript and 3rd party.
i'm aware of most of what you wrote but i choose security over usability for a default browser.
it is. I remember the dev talking about releasing their own fork of the webview that's privacy oriented.
This was years ago. Hasn't been released yet.