I am a newcomer to the space and want to know some stuff about the mentioned mobile browsers. Information on them seems a little sparse to me. I am aware of Brave, however on my current device it is very buggy and I do not like the company’s reputation. I am aware of Firefox and it’s derivatives and the benefit they bring against chrome’s monopoly, however I believe that it’s non existing sandboxing is an issue and would therefore like to exclude them for mobile use.
Bromite seems to have been abandoned as it’s owner appears to be in a war zone (My heart goes out to you Carl!). As for this reason, Cromite was forked from Bromite by the main contributor to Bromite. This in itself raises several question for me:
- Is Cromite as good as Bromite was in it’s golden age?
- Does Cromite have some catching up to do, before it becomes an alternative to other browsers again?
- Can the project be trusted under different ownership?
- Is it not listed on PrivacyGuides.org as it is “new”, or as it’s got an issue? I know that Bromite was once recommended.
- Would you yourself use or recommend Cromite? If yes/no, why so?
Also, how does Vanadium compare privacy wise? I know it’s the bomb for security, however it’s developer(s) did not specifically target privacy if I understood correctly. If I were to get GrapheneOS, I’d be happy to use it’s stock browser.
What about a vm/cloud based browser? I have found very little about them, but could imagine they’d make it hard to track someone.
Cromite is an improvement to Bromite, so yes.
There are some things here or there that could be added, but it seems like a good browser for now.
The current developer has worked on Bromite in the past, so if you trusted Bromite I don’t see a reason not to trust Cromite.
It’s not listed because it was just released and I believe it was mentioned on Privacy Guides forums that the team is looking into it and may consider adding it to the recommended tools at some point.
Yes, I currently use Cromite as a back-up browser and Mull as my main browser.
Vanadium is built specifically for security. It lacks privacy features such as an ad blocker. It is also only available on GrapheneOS. Cromite seems much easier to recommend from a privacy stand point as the use case for Vanadium is very specific.
Currently I use the AdGuard DoH server. It’s not perfect, but I don’t do a lot of browsing on my phone. There were some plans to implement this in vanadium https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/issues/10
Exactly what I needed. Thank you!
May I ask if you use a custom rom? And would you use vanadium if you could?
I have a Pixel phone, but I don’t use a custom ROM on it. I still depend on some Google services and apps for school and work.
I use NextDNS to block ads system-wide so I would probably stick with Vanadium instead of Cromite just to save memory. However, I would still use either Mull or Fennec F-droid as my main browser on mobile.