Looking for Privacy-Oriented Open-Source Android Browsers
I’m looking for a privacy-focused, open-source Android browser. Here are some options I’ve found:
- IronFox
- recommended by LibreWolf
- Fennec
- no repo
- Waterfox
- Vanadium
- only available on GrapheneOS
- better security
- iceraven
- most stars
- bromite
- no longer maintained
- Bromite has a fingerprint randomization and Vanadium doesn’t. But Vanadium has better security if you use Graphene. So yeah, for privacy Bromite might be better
- cromite
- Bromite fork
- brave
- controversial
Is there any other browser out there that fits this criteria? Is there an even better choice? I’m particularly interested in ones that focus on privacy.
EDIT:
- in terms of popularity, privacy and functionality I guess the best choices are iceraven and cromite
- iceraven based on firefox
- cromitebased on chromium
few questions
- What is the difference between IronFox, Fennec, Waterfox and iceraven?
- I know that Brave is a bit controversial, but If Brave does something behind our backs wouldn’t we be able to know it since all the source code is out there? If it has some features we don’t like can’t we simply modify the source code?
Be aware that Firefox-based browsers on Android are horrible for security and don’t even have an internal sandbox.
If you decide to download IronFox, download it through Accrescent, since it enforces that the devs or anyone else won’t push a malicious update.
Edit: fixed an ambiguous sentence
Thank you so much
So I guess the only option for regular user is brave or cromite?
I’ve never heard of Accrescent. How is it better than F-droid?
I think Louis Rossman has a video explaining why F-Droid is not great
Uhm, the Java VM is already there, separated by Linux groups and caged by SeLinux. Why sandbox?