Web browsers - Vanadium

Vanadium Chromium-based browser from the GrapheneOS project.

Features

Security

The browser extend and improve upon Chromium already strong security features; sandbox, exploit protection, site isolation, etc. By default JavaScript JIT used to improve performance on load time is disabled due to increase vulnerabilities to browser-based exploits.

WebView

Others applications rely on its WebView component to display web pages.

Configuration

Users should consider disabling search suggestions, save and autofill for passwords, sign-in, payments methods and addresses and enabling links from external apps to be opened in incognito.

Recommendations

GrapheneOS users should stick to Vanadium as their main browser.

Limitations

Vanadium is currently does not offer any built in ad-blocker or content filtering mechanism and is exclusively available on GrapheneOS.

Sources


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