Cromite browser was a privacy and security oriented Android browser.
Their latest update was in 21th of May: v148.0.7778.168.
Their commit history also suggest that the browser is slowly being sunset.
To put it into context, the current version of chrome on Android is 150.0.7871.63, released on 30th of June.
YSK that every Chromium-based browser is harmful and should be avoided, regardless of how up-to-date it is.
I came here to joke about my Firefox browser, but I guess it’s not chromium, yay! Any particular phone browsers that you would recommend?
I use Firefox on both my phone and my desktop.
In the least use Fennec or better Ironfox. However Ironfox is breaking some websites occasionally or can be just slow loading pages so I have both installed and use them both.
What about GraphenOS’s Vanadium?
As a GrapheneOS user I’m aware of the developers’ arguments for it, but it has the same problem as every other Chromium browser: Google controls the upstream code, so it’s still going to contribute to Google’s harmful hegemony over web standards.
It probably is more “secure” than Firefox, though, measured against the GrapheneOS devs’ threat model. But my problem with Chromium is one they don’t even try to address.
Going with that argument though, isn’t the whole of GrapheneOS then problematic as Google also controls that upstream code?
The rest of GrapheneOS doesn’t influence how web developers design websites, or what fingerprinting and other private information the browser allows sites to steal from users.
It’s not just Manifest V3, either. It’s also the “Web Environment Integrity” API (read: DRM for websites) and “WebMCP” and such. Those are the sorts of monopolistic practices and enshittification you’re supporting and endorsing whenever you use a Chromium-based browser, including Vanadium.
Please use it over any <insert any non-chromium browser engine here> browser.
there’s really so few good android browsers…
