Add IronFox to F-Droid (Mull continued)

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New version released today.

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FYI @bigsmoke: If you’re still experiencing performance issues with IronFox, can you please try setting javascript.options.blinterp to true in your about:config? This seems to have fixed the performance issues some of our Matrix users have been having, and I suspect it’s also the culprit in your case.

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Will doing this effect my fingerprint and overall privacy/security?

Thanks.

Also, new update released today.

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It isn’t fingerprintable. It’s related to JIT - which we still also disable via various other prefs and other areas for security reasons, so keeping it at true is only a minor decrease in security. For reference: this wasn’t something that Mull for instance toggled.

Ultimately you haven’t been the only one with these performance problems; we’ve heard from other users having similar severe performance issues, so for next release, we’re going to leave this pref set to 'true` by default.

At the end of the day, the most secure browser in the world is useless if no one can actually use it…

We can revisit disabling 'blinterp` again in the future - but it’s clear it isn’t ready to be set yet on Android… and due to the minimal impact in security with our other hardening, we’re fine leaving it on by default.