Firefox on Android clarification

From our mobile browsers page:

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

That is why we recommend Brave, which also features blocking (similar to what you’d get with Firefox + uBlock Origin) as well as anti-fingerprinting privacy features, while also being more secure because of its Chromium base.

Firefox fares better on the desktop side; however, Chromium-based browsers are generally more secure on the desktop as well.

We currently recommend Tor Browser for Android if you want to use Tor, because while gecko-based browsers are not ideal from a security standpoint, it’s the only officially recommended method for Tor browsing.

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