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so yeah if anyoone didint know mullvad the company behind Mullvad vpn realsed a browser called mullvad browser and its quite amazing its super private out of the box probably the most private not counting tor and its based on firefox 102.9.0 esr sadly its only for windows 10 and above it comes with ublock origin too

Niko wrote: ↑21 Apr 2023, 23:33 sadly its only for windows 10 and above

thats not true btw

It's good if you like the way it comes out of the box. It's Tor just built for use with a VPN instead. Has it's use case by for main I'll keep using and recommending LibreWolf.

I like Waterfox

CalmCreeper360 wrote: ↑23 Apr 2023, 13:16

Niko wrote: ↑21 Apr 2023, 23:33 sadly its only for windows 10 and above

thats not true btw

Oh damn mb mb didint know

Anyone else here given Mullvad Browser a try?

I'm liking it so far as a replacement for IceCat (they are both the only two I've yet to see that eliminates *all* telemetry connections).
r3dfox and LibreWolf both still have "connections".
I am not claiming that they are "bad", just claiming that they "exist" - both are GIGANTIC improvements over Official Firefox.

FIRST RUN has WAY more than the Google IP Address shown below.
But you have to RUN IT in order to make changes to PREVENT them in FUTURE launches.

The screen cap is Mullvad's FIRST RUN! (but with the included extensions removed before running [same as I do with r3dfox, et alia])

The-10-Pen wrote: ↑28 Jan 2026, 22:23 Anyone else here given Mullvad Browser a try?

Since it's based on Firefox 140 ESR that means it requires Windows 10 or 11. Some people here won't be able to use it.

The-10-Pen wrote: ↑28 Jan 2026, 22:23 I'm liking it so far as a replacement for IceCat (they are both the only two I've yet to see that eliminates *all* telemetry connections).
r3dfox and LibreWolf both still have "connections".

I don't have connections with R3dfox and LibreWolf apart from Privacy Badger extension which is updating its databse on launch.

The-10-Pen wrote: ↑28 Jan 2026, 22:23 included extensions removed before running [same as I do with r3dfox, et alia]

There is really no good reason to remove uBlock Origin which comes with R3dfox. It's not only an adblocker but a wonderful and powerful tool.

I modify and maintain my own private-use uBlock Origin. "Never leave home without it."
All of my extensions are modified and maintained TO MY LIKING.
I do not want any "bundled" extensions.

True on Win 10/11.
My 10's are "old" versions of 10 and Mullvad would not install.
My 10's are also tweaked (similar to the Micro X-Lite that we have been informed that r3dfox is compiled within a VM of said Micro).
I did not look into whether Mullvad did not install due to old-10 or due to tweaked-10.
I need (forced to!) use an unactivated Win11 VM each and every tax season for a few years now).
TurboTax only runs on Win11 - but it doesn't have to be an activated Win11, don't tell Intuit.
So I "installed" Mullvad in Win11 VM then copied the folder over to Win10, worked for me on my 10's.
But yeah, agreed, many on this forum aren't on 10 or 11.

From what I read, Its basically TOR without TOR if that makes sense. From their web page "That's why we partnered with the Tor Project to develop Mullvad Browser – a browser designed to minimize tracking and fingerprints."

uBlock Origin tracks and logs your activity and stores that "data".
While I did not look to see if that "data" was ever TRANSMITTED to the "home office", I do not like that sort of tracking and logging!
Sure, it's a clever disguise to show the logged data as a "meter" within the GUI, the whole "blocked since install" 'widget'.
I'm just NOT a fan of those types of data logs.
If it were just YouTube and Eclipse, that would be one thing, but the creator of uBlock Origin does NOT need to know what bank or credit card web sites I log into.
Again, I do not know if the logs are TRANSMITTED, I only know they EXIST and so I remove them from my personal-use version.
Same goes for ALL of my extensions.

Correct... Tor-inspired... But not Tor...

The-10-Pen wrote: ↑29 Jan 2026, 01:33 uBlock Origin tracks and logs your activity and stores that "data".
While I did not look to see if that "data" was ever TRANSMITTED to the "home office", I do not like that sort of tracking and logging!
Sure, it's a clever disguise to show the logged data as a "meter" within the GUI, the whole "blocked since install" 'widget'.
I'm just NOT a fan of those types of data logs.
If it were just YouTube and Eclipse, that would be one thing, but the creator of uBlock Origin does NOT need to know what bank or credit card web sites I log into.
Again, I do not know if the logs are TRANSMITTED, I only know they EXIST and so I remove them from my personal-use version.
Same goes for ALL of my extensions.

I can confirm it's purely for your viewing, and is not transmitted anywhere. uBlock Origin doesn't even have such a "home server" to transmit them to. The only official platform uBO has is their GitHub, but you can't write telemetry data there. Even stuff like ublockorigin.com is an unofficial site, run by a person completely unrelated from the uBO project itself.

Cool. Thanks for that info.
I personally still do not want the "logs" to even EXIST.
To each their own, of course. I have no use for my profile "size" to balloon to very large sizes just for the sake of LOGGING my activity.

I'm also of the generation where if Microsoft were to have ever released Internet Explorer with these types of *bundles*, we-the-people would have taken Micosoft to court. Why would I take that view for IE but a different view for any of the other HUNDREDS of browsers out there?

Maybe that's not the best "view of the world", I can accept that. But I also accept that this view "works for me".
I've just seen/witnessed too many "bundles" over several DECADES that I have been "conditioned" into a *TRUST NO ONE* philosophy.

Not sure how old you are and what "history" you have lived through, but think of the era of "search toolbars".
Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search, Ask.com, AOL, Ask Jeeves, Alexa, the list is endless...
An era where "identities" were technically never "stolen". Rather, they were GIVEN AWAY for FREE.
I view *any* BUNDLE in that historical context. But again, "to each their own".