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.”

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      6 months ago

      And how do they have effective marketing? Turns out it is well crafted propaganda.

      Propaganda can be good or bad depending on your perspective, and a lot of effective marketing could be categorized as propaganda.

      Proton, for example, uses propaganda about freedom and privacy in their marketing, yet they’re actually selling a suite of services for email, data storage, VPN, etc. That’s true for pretty much every privacy-oriented product and service.

      I’m not all that interested in deciding what counts as propaganda, I’m interested in the details of products and how effective the marketing is at getting people interested in those products.

      They concluded after 2 years of investigation that USA labs are more likely to be the origin of virus than China labs.

      They were coooerating together. US labs collaborated with Chinese labs to do research. I don’t think it getting out was intentional by any party, but the right heavily implies it to fit their anti-China narrative and the left downplay it to fit their “China isn’t so bad” narrative. As is the case most of the time, the truth is probably in the middle.

      Go question or criticise them on their forums.

      That is not a litmus test of technical merit, that’s a litmus test of how big their ego is. That’s irrelevant.