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Made the switch to IronFox. First impressions. (programming.dev)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by emotional_soup_88@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Following what I learned over at https://programming.dev/post/47796780 about Brave I decided to switch to IronFox, which is also recommended by LibreWolf.

I wasn't able to find the damn ~/Bookmarks directory.

I tried to create one under /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.ironfoxoss.ironfox/files/ and copied my Brave bookmarks.html file into it, but to no avail. I ended up manually copying the bookmarks into IronFox, since I couldn't find any import function.

The documentation and FAQs are top notch, as in relevant and concise.

I love the developers' opennes about the limitations

My hardware security key - a Yubico Yubikey - didn't work "out of the box" as it did with Brave, but lo and behold, IronFox had a solution. I have never used Android's function to manage passkeys before, so I'm unsure of the security and/or privacy implications.

All in all, I can strongly recommend this browser based on my initial impressions! Also:

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[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

Sweet! Thanks for the tip! :)