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!
- no longer maintained
- 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
- cromite
- brave
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 cromite
- iceraven based on firefox
- cromitebased on chromium
few questions
- What is the difference between IronFox, Fennec, Waterfox and iceraven?
Brave
I’ve never heard of Accrescent. How is it better than F-droid?