I heard around the internet that Firefox on Android does not have Site Isolation built-in yet. After a little bit of research, I learned that Site Isolation on Android was added in Firefox Nightly, appearing to have been added sometime in June 2023. What I can’t find, though, is whether this has ever been added to any stable versions of Firefox yet. Does anyone know anything about this?

Update: After further research, it appears that Site Isolation is not currently a feature in stable version of Firefox on Android. I don’t know with certainty if their information is up-to-date, but GrapheneOS (A well-known privacy/security-focused fork of Android) does not recommend using Firefox-based browsers on Android due to it’s (apparently) lack of a Site Isolation feature. A snippet of what Graphene currently have to say about Firefox on Android/GrapheneOS from their usage guide page, is: “Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they’re currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface.”

On a side-note, they also say about Firefox’s current Site Isolation on desktop being weaker, which I wasn’t aware of. “Even in the desktop version, Firefox’s sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole.”

  • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    would have posted it on a more broad community about Web Browsers and done so on Reddit for the most impact

    You are already doing it here, considering Lemmy and Fediverse demographic cares about privacy and uses Firefox for reasons you are contradicting.

    GrapheneOS itself is snake oil, and you are parroting their nonsense takes on browser security. You can read more here. https://lemmy.ml/post/16947066/11696895

    Considering Vanadium itself lacks any fingerprinting protection, it is funny they pretend to care about privacy and anonymity, and make dogmatic claims of privacy and anonymity being extensions of security, even though their version of security has nothing to do with providing privacy or anonymity to users. You cannot even use an adblocker on Vanadium, let alone uBlock Origin. Worthless browser and worthless takes on browsers.

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        4 months ago

        Reason for deletion: Decided it wasn’t worth arguing like my last comment said. The readers are smart enough to see what’s stupid about your comment without me having to defend myself.

        Update: Oh, you deleted all your comments, good job.