Comment on The best browser for privacy?
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Why do you think GrapheneOS uses a Chromium fork as a base for its browser, Vandium?
Its because Firefox on Android is seriously lacking in security relative to Chromium.
I use Firefox based browsers on my desktop, but for Android, I mainly stick to chromium-based ones, such as Chromite and Vandium.
If you’re insistent on using Firefox on Android, then IronFox.
VeganBtw@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
You’re talking about security, are you also talking about privacy?
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I that depends on how much privacy you get when your browser can’t properly sandbox and provide site isolation.
grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing
lemmysmash@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
A fair question to be asked: does sandboxing really matter if you view all sites on the one-origin-at-a-time and incognito-only basis? This way there’s no way for one site to escape its sandbox and get into another site’s cookies (because there are no another site’s cookies) and there’s also no way (theoretically) to escape the app sandbox imposed by Android itself and mingle with another app’s data, right?
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Which is why I have my Firefox based browsers on Android set to only open up private windows.
But that’s not how I normally use web browsers, so yeah, sandboxing does matter if you have more regular browsing habits, such as not using incognito all the time.