Ephemeral Mobile Browsers: Gecko

There was a discussion here about removing Gecko mobile browsers from ‘Recommendations’ because at the time they did not provide per-site process isolation. I presume that has not changed, but I am left wondering, because Gecko-based browsers did feature, are mobile browsers such as Firefox Focus as good or a better option than Cromite (Chromium-based) for use as an ephemeral mobile browser, where the user is only using it for web searches and logging into alias accounts?

Firefox Focus seems to perform well on privacytests.org.

I don’t think there is any benefit to Focus/Klar or DDG Browser compared to an incognito tab of Brave/Cromite/Ironfox

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Ironfox would certainly do better than Firefox Focus anyway, since Mull had great hardening but Ironfox dev has added a lot like just recently disabling HLTS but did many subtle changes to reduce the threat surface

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I believe that Firefox Focus just uses the system webview, which, on Android, is Chromium based.

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I highly doubt that’s the case as it integrate strong privacy protections, and maintaing a different browser program wouldn’t make sense. Firefox Focus is just a epehemeral Firefox that is slightly hardened and with a reduced feature set.

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I think that’s not the case anymore since 2018.

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Just to back your comemnt with Mozilla Blog’s link.

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I don’t know why so many people in this forum reduce FF’s security shortcomings to site isolation. Read what I wrote in the thread you linked and you will see that it’s by far not the only problem.

They are not, at least not in terms of security.

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