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:

  • Lemmyng@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    Hard agree that bookmark import/export would make transitioning to IronFox much more incentivizing, but aside from that, I love how hardened it is.

    • durinn@programming.devOPEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      Yep. I mean, in this particular case it took me what… Five minutes to switch to a more privacy friendly and ethical option. :D