Cromite browser was a privacy and security oriented Android browser.
Their latest update was in 21th of May: v148.0.7778.168.
Their commit history also suggest that the browser is slowly being sunset.
To put it into context, the current version of chrome on Android is 150.0.7871.63, released on 30th of June.


What about GraphenOS’s Vanadium?
As a GrapheneOS user I’m aware of the developers’ arguments for it, but it has the same problem as every other Chromium browser: Google controls the upstream code, so it’s still going to contribute to Google’s harmful hegemony over web standards.
It probably is more “secure” than Firefox, though, measured against the GrapheneOS devs’ threat model. But my problem with Chromium is one they don’t even try to address.
Going with that argument though, isn’t the whole of GrapheneOS then problematic as Google also controls that upstream code?
The rest of GrapheneOS doesn’t influence how web developers design websites, or what fingerprinting and other private information the browser allows sites to steal from users.
It’s not just Manifest V3, either. It’s also the “Web Environment Integrity” API (read: DRM for websites) and “WebMCP” and such. Those are the sorts of monopolistic practices and enshittification you’re supporting and endorsing whenever you use a Chromium-based browser, including Vanadium.
Please use it over any <insert any non-chromium browser engine here> browser.
Honestly yeah it’s much more secure, afaik the sandboxing on Firefox and the such is horrible
No.
Then you aren’t using the most secure open source browser.
But I am escaping the corporate browser monopoly. I’m good on that.
I’m curious if you own a smartphone and if so, what OS it runs.
Yeah and it’s android. I know the whole spiel you want to give me, can we just not do that? You’re opting back into the Google ecosystem in the name of security, and I don’t choose that. Using Firefox is the only current option I have for avoiding using a browser controlled by Google. I’ve read the arguments about sandboxing and all and I don’t find it a compelling reason to use Google’s software when I can avoid it, particularly something as fundamental as a web browser.
I can definitely opt to not give you the “Android is made by Google” spiel.