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You can compare Mullvad Browser with your Firefox Browser. Just do a Fingerprint Test:
Is your Firefox better? Does it hide more details about you? No.
Your Firefox is likely very unique. So your settings and extensions appear to be special; let's say you stick out of the others. Also your Screen-Size and if its a touchable screen and how much RAM your device has and so on.... Mullvad Browser makes all users look much more like the same user - users are less identifiable.
Default Firefox settings with uBlock Origin results in everything passing except the unique fingerprint, and hardening Firefox to do that is easy enough with something like Privacy Badger, some fingerprint anonymization extensions or just disabling JavaScript. From my experience, though, doing that will make the web nigh-unusable for the average user with sites regularly breaking or constantly spamming you with Captchas wherever you go.
I'm curious how "usable" Mullvade Browser is for the everyday user, compared to Firefox with uBlock Origin.
Edit: Fixed typo
You can get Mulvad as a Firefox extension FYI. I was just on the page.
What's interesting is that on mobile Firefox passes less of those checks than DuckDuckgo
Weirdly enough I got better results with Bromite instead of Fennec and Mull (even when they're running uBlock and Privacy Badger)