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My setup on GrapheneOS with all the exploit protections on except some off for apps with compatibility issues. Thoughts?

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Firefox is not secure on mobile, Vanadium is a great browser made by the GrapheneOS devs

Firefox is not secure on mobile

Can you elaborate?

I’m on the go right now. This is a quote for an old privacy guides snapshot, but when I was looking for it, I saw some articles from April saying that this was no longer true, so further searching needed when I get home

On Android, Firefox is still less secure than Chromium-based alternatives: Mozilla’s engine, GeckoView, has yet to support site isolation or enable isolatedProcess.

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People in the comments already have “Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they’re currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn’t have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android.”

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I mean Gecko based browsers are actively recommended against on mobile. Chromium based browsers are recommended. Also I use mullvadVPN DNS based ad blocking, and I also have Brave that has built in ad blocking. Do yourself a favor and ditch adblock in favor of Ublock origin

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I haven’t really dived into this but I’m pretty sure GOS dev are one of the groups to recommend against it

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