cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52731585
I was reading around about private browsers and I came across mullvad’s browser (only know them for the VPN), do you have experience using it? does it do anything different? I currently use librewolf and from what I can see the mullvad browser also is build from firefox. I generally prefer firefox-like browsers to chromium since i like way its set up and what it allows me to do. Its supposedly build by the same guys who made the tor browser (tbh i feel like thats just marketing). From their website it says its tor without tor but instead with a VPN. So technically I can accomplish the same thing with librewolf and a VPN?? Does the mullvad browser do anything new/different? One thing they do mention is browser fingerprinting does it do anything special to combat that? if i switch to mullvad instead but still have the same extensions is it more private?
I normally use Mullvad and a hardend Librewolf.
Mullvad seems funtionally the same as the tor browser. I believe the idea with the tor brower was that they would be difficult to distinguish for one person from the next. And same goes for Mullvad. The only differince being that Mullvad does’t naturally go through the tor netwok, doesn’t onionize sites, and uses mullvad’s own search engin and DNS server by default. (Mullard’s brower exists so that you have a tor browser without the tor network; And that’s different topic of conversation)
Librewolf is closer the firefox experince, and I would happily recommend it to everyone. I personally enabled the sync funtion, switch the default search to ecosia, and hardend up some other settings. I haven’t felt the need to add any plugins yet( that wern’t installed by default).
In my tests, both have shown to be exellent privacy browsers. But as such, they both also stick out like a sore thumbs.
Overall, if you want the most privet browser, Mullvad seems hide more of my identity and fignerprint. But you will will look very suspicious.
I still recommend Librewolf over Mullvad, does everything I want and need it to do