Looking for Privacy-Oriented Open-Source Android Browsers
I’m looking for a privacy-focused, open-source Android browser. Here are some options I’ve found:
- IronFox
- IronFox OSS / IronFox · GitLab
- recommended by LibreWolf
- Fennec
- F-Droid Link
- no repo
- Waterfox
- Vanadium
- GitHub - GrapheneOS/Vanadium: Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium for GrapheneOS. Vanadium provides the WebView and standard user-facing browser on GrapheneOS. It depends on hardening in other GrapheneOS repositories and doesn’t include patches not relevant to the build targets used on GrapheneOS.
- only available on GrapheneOS
- better security
- iceraven
- iceraven
- most stars
- bromite
- GitHub - bromite/bromite: Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!
- Bromite has a fingerprint randomization and Vanadium doesn’t. But Vanadium has better security if you use Graphene. So yeah, for privacy Bromite might be better
Is there any other browser out there that fits this criteria? Is there an even better choice? I’m particularly interested in ones that focus on privacy.
EDIT:
- in terms of popularity, privacy and functionality I guess the best choices are iceraven and bromite
- iceraven based on firefox
- bromite based on chromium
few questions
- What is the difference between IronFox, Fennec, Waterfox and iceraven?
Iceraven often lags behind on security updates. I know you specified privacy, but good to keep in mind.
I use Ironfox, because I previously used Mull (rip) with RethinkDNS, and Orbot
good to know!