Proposal Drop recommendations for all Gecko-based browsers on Android, except Tor Browser (lacks alternatives), due to very lacking security and add statement of reasons. Alternative proposal If above proposal does not succeed, at least change statements below to make the security shortcomings very…

With all that said, it’s better to continue using a Chronium browser or you can use a Gecko browser, I’ve tested Mull and I don’t like it, it’s far too restrictive, I’d rather go back to FF.

Revise notes on Mull/GeckoView Android main ← android-gecko-notes opened 12:40AM - 16 Apr 24 UTC (UTC) [image] jonaharagon …

Privacy Guides recommends two mobile operating systems: GrapheneOS and DivestOS. GrapheneOS comes with Vanadium, which is a browser that I strongly recommend. It’s a browser that is good right now and will be even better in the future. You can read more about its current state and future plans here .…

[image] anon48875053: The only justification Incorrect, but it is not in fact my job to restate previous discussions you’ve missed, so that will be left as an exercise to the reader. [image] F-Droid (FOSS Android App Store) explicitly state that we currently don’t recommend F-Droid. Al…

[image] Tech-Trooper: How can they let sb steal your browser data? That should be real question we need to ask. If they fall into phishing easily, then per-site isolation won’t save you in many situations. What? This has nothing to do with phishing. I have been talking about browser exploitat…

Thx Jonah for reworking it. It’s definitely better than before. Although I would prefer Mull to be deleted as a recommendation. Unfortunately the text box still just talks about site isolation, only in the foot note it mentions isolatedProcess but does not explain what this means. The major problems…

Bruh, some here act like they didn’t take the smallest chance to slip the “real cases” here then outright not allowed others to talk about it To wrap it in general, some here just want to discuss about the security within the browser/OS and their processes of sandboxing, isolation or memory safety…

I don’t understand what you’re saying in either of your posts @eqrlzo8t

[image] sha123: The major problems are missing sandboxing, which is even more important than site isolation I mean, I would prefer it if Firefox had processes-per-origin without the isolatedProcess flag, than if they had their current setup but with the isolatedProcess flag. I changed the t…

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Revise statements on Gecko browsers (Android) to make security shortcomings clear

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Could you please move the post about F-Droid to F-Droid topic? I edited it to fit that topic. The post indeed doesn’t belong in here.

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