Vanadium (GrapheneOS Web Browser)

[anonymous261]

@GorujoCY

which it still won’t get added until Vanadium is cross-platform

It’s nearly as accessible as Safari, which is only on iPhones and Macs. GrapheneOS can fit most of the usecases of both iPhones and Macs

[GorujoCY]

Are you implying Vanadium works on iOS?
You gotta be joking me right?

[anonymous261]

I meant GOS works for both desktop and mobile use, essentially fulfilling the same functions as both an iPhone and a Mac. Safari is only on iPhone and Mac

[GorujoCY]

Ok I’ll give you that.
staff needs some real explaination here, why is Safari here and not Vanadium. I thought we’re recommending cross platform not agnostic ones.

[anonymous261]

Being cross platform isn’t a requirement for the mobile browsers section, but I just wanted to address these replies:

@jonah

I think we’re ignoring the elephant in the room here, which is that Vanadium is only available on a single operating system

@xe3

I don’t think a recommendation for Vanadium would be useful, because it is only available for GrapheneOS, and it is already the default in GrapheneOS.

So the only group of people who can use Vanadium already have Vanadium

Safari is similarly limited, and people who have Apple devices also already have Safari

[khoa]

The reason why Safari got recommended on iOS is rather special.

On iOS, any app that can browse the web is restricted to using an Apple-provided WebKit framework, so a browser like Brave does not use the Chromium engine like its counterparts on other operating systems.

Safari is not recommended as a desktop browser, only as a mobile browser because of this.