"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.”
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.
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
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?
And yet the GrapheneOS people recommend their own “Vanadium” hardened version of Chromium instead, for reasons I don’t understand.
It is explained here https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing
They don’t explicitly mention Firefox but:
and
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
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.
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
And the complete inability to block ads is just a non issue. Ok.
vanadium has adblocking
How does that work, without any extensions?
it’s just built in
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?
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
Can you show us where the adblocking is? I just went through all my vanadium settings and found nothing.