Mullvad Browser

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How to install Mullvad Browser in Kicksecure.

Documentation for this is incomplete. Contributions are happily considered! See this for potential alternatives.

Introduction

The Mullvad Browser Downloader (by Kicksecure developers) is similar to the Tor Browser Downloader (by Whonix developers) which is documented on the Whonix's Tor Browser wiki page.

Installation

1. Download the Mullvad Browser downloader by Kicksecure developers.

Install package(s) tb-updater tb-starter following these instructions

1 Platform specific notice.

• Kicksecure: No special notice.
• Kicksecure-Qubes: In Template.

2 Update the package lists and upgrade the system .

sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

3 Install the tb-updater tb-starter package(s).

Using apt command line --no-install-recommends option is in most cases optional.

sudo apt install --no-install-recommends tb-updater tb-starter

4 Platform specific notice.

• Kicksecure: No special notice.
• Kicksecure-Qubes: Shut down Template and restart App Qubes based on it as per Qubes Template Modification .

5 Done.

The procedure of installing package(s) tb-updater tb-starter is complete.

2. Run the Mullvad Browser downloader.

update-mullvadbrowser

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Mullvad VPN

To the knowledge of the author written in February 2024...

One might make the assumption that a browser developed a VPN provider's, uses the VPN provider's VPN by default. Therefore one might assume that Mullvad Browser (MB) uses Mullvad VPN by default.

• Does MB use Mullvad VPN by default? No.
• Does MB Firefox extension allow to enable Mullvad VPN directly inside Firefox or MB? No.
• What is the purpose of MB Firefox extension? It shows the status if Mullvad VPN is in use or not. It also comes with a fail-closed mechanism. If enabled, when using Mullvad VPN system wide (through the usual means of enabling a VPN without using any specific browser) then it will make sure that the browser cannot generate non-VPN traffic.

Please ask Mullvad for clarification, not Kicksecure. Please edit the wiki should this information be incorrect or outdated.

Upstream bug report:

• usability: user confusion whether a VPN is used or not

Discussions

• https://github.com/Kicksecure/tb-updater/issues/25
• https://github.com/Kicksecure/tb-updater/pull/26
• https://forums.kicksecure.com/t/tor-project-is-resurrecting-secbrowser-as-mullvad-browser/101/11
• MB as a Kicksecure Default Browser? No. This is a declined feature request. For reasons, see chapter Mullvad Browser as Kicksecure Default Browser?.

See Also

• Tor Browser

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