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Firefox for android ftw (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 days ago by RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol to c/androidmemes@lemdro.id

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And yet the GrapheneOS people recommend their own "Vanadium" hardened version of Chromium instead, for reasons I don't understand.

[–] Metz@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

It is explained here https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing

They don't explicitly mention Firefox but:

"Chromium-based browsers like Vanadium provide the strongest sandbox implementation, leagues ahead of the alternatives. "

and

"Chromium has decent exploit mitigations, unlike the available alternatives. "

Since I myself lack the knowledge and skills to judge this, I have to trust the word of the developers.

Edit, correction. They do mention Firefox

"Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface."

[–] grue@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Merely asserting something and explaining it to my satisfaction (as a developer myself) are two different things. I don't want to have to read through both codebases myself, but I would have liked the Graphene OS devs to cite some examples to prove their point.

[–] REDACTED 7 points 2 days ago

Seriously. I've never heard of firefox being more vulnerable than chrome. It could be, but realistically not many groups are looking for exploits in a browser with 3% market share

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And the complete inability to block ads is just a non issue. Ok.

[–] cole@lemdro.id 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

vanadium has adblocking

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How does that work, without any extensions?

[–] cole@lemdro.id 2 points 2 days ago

it's just built in

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Really? Didn't seem to to me; I just installed latest GrapheneOS on my pixel 9 this weekend, and Vanadium definitely let Google Adsense crap all over many sites I visited.

Is there a way to enable effective ad blocking that I missed?

[–] cole@lemdro.id 1 points 2 days ago

I'm not sure I think it's enabled by default. look in the settings to be sure. works pretty well on my grapheneos pixel 8