Vanadium version 140.0.7339.207.0 released

GrapheneOS

Vanadium version 140.0.7339.207.0 released:

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/releases/tag/140.0.7339.207.0

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.

Nobody

Thanks for the hard work getting it out. Very much appreciated

Thisguy

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WookieWook

Great news! One question: is there a place where there is an explanation of what makes Vanadium superior to the usage of browsers such as IronFox? Clearly there's a reason GrapheneOS ships with Vanadium, but is that reason due to superior hardening or Vanadium simply being a fork of Chromium and in keeping with AOSP?

I'd really love to understand this!

de0u

WookieWook Clearly there's a reason GrapheneOS ships with Vanadium, but is that reason due to superior hardening or Vanadium simply being a fork of Chromium and in keeping with AOSP?

https://grapheneos.org/features#vanadium

There is lots of useful information on the web site, on the Features, Usage, and FAQ pages.

n3t_admin

WookieWook superior to the usage of browsers such as IronFox

for starters, it's superior to Gecko-based browsers on Android (Firefox & all of its forks) because of their abhorrent security, in particular the lack of proper site isolation.

abednego

WookieWook Apart from the answer you got about looking at the web site (at first I was reluctant about the information here, but looks as high-quality as the OpenBSD web site), I would add the team behind Vanadium is great.

I had been looking at alternative Android projects in the last years (/e/OS, CalyxOS, DivestOS, LineageOS, and GrapheneOS). Some are great (I had both LineageOS and DivestOS on a Nexus 7 tablet; now, GrapheneOS on my Pixel Tablet), and other not so great, looking more like projects without a strong foundation.

Just looking at how GrapheneOS started its route by adding OpenBSD's malloc(3) it was clear to me they had a great project with real goals, and they were not just selling beautiful words without a strong security foundation in the code.

The team behind GrapheneOS is the most important reason I think Vanadium is a great browser, even if it being based on Google's Chromium may look counterintuitive —at least from the privacy point of view— at first.