<story><title>The Mullvad Browser</title><url>https://mullvad.net/en/browser</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>controversial97</author><text>So ... it is a fork of Mozilla Firefox with privacy-friendly settings by default, some script blocking, and dns lookups done via Mullvads encrypted dns service&lt;p&gt;Sounds ok to me, I have a longish and probably out of date list of settings that I like to chance in a new instance of firefox. I trust mullvad to not log dns more than I trust my ISP and I live in the UK so unencrypted dns here is being logged and stored by order of the government.&lt;p&gt;Keeping a fork of firefox in sync with mainline firefox to get security fixes is a load of work, it is good that somebody is doing it, in this case I think the tor project is doing a lot of the work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dathinab</author><text>AFIK it&amp;#x27;s a &amp;quot;fork&amp;quot; of the tor-browser (which is a fork of Firefox) but instead of connecting to the tor network you connect to a VPN.&lt;p&gt;So you get all the in-browser tracking protection Firefox has (e.g. against fingerprinting) + the ones only the Tor browser has but without the drawbacks of the tor network and in turn without onion security.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Mullvad Browser</title><url>https://mullvad.net/en/browser</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>controversial97</author><text>So ... it is a fork of Mozilla Firefox with privacy-friendly settings by default, some script blocking, and dns lookups done via Mullvads encrypted dns service&lt;p&gt;Sounds ok to me, I have a longish and probably out of date list of settings that I like to chance in a new instance of firefox. I trust mullvad to not log dns more than I trust my ISP and I live in the UK so unencrypted dns here is being logged and stored by order of the government.&lt;p&gt;Keeping a fork of firefox in sync with mainline firefox to get security fixes is a load of work, it is good that somebody is doing it, in this case I think the tor project is doing a lot of the work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomxor</author><text>&amp;gt; I have a longish and probably out of date list of settings that I like to chance in a new instance of firefox&lt;p&gt;Not a user but part of the purpose of the TOR fork is settings, anything that is detectable via JS is supposed to remain default to prevent fingerprinting.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s partly why it&amp;#x27;s not widely popular, I don&amp;#x27;t know if this is still true but it used to be that it was supposed to be run at a specific viewport resolution regardless of your device. All in the name of making your fingerprint as close to the same as all other TOR browser users.</text></comment>