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Did Firefox Stable for Android ever add Site Isolation? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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."

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

I'm not all that interested in deciding what counts as propaganda

Then you may not be fit for preaching GrapheneOS as a good thing either. But you are doing it. You are willfully trying to muddy the clear waters to try and make me thing GrapheneOS is a good project, even though 5 years of my investigation says otherwise.

As is the case most of the time, the truth is probably in the middle.

Never has been the case. Centrism is as valid as economic "middle class", both of which do not exist and are invented pigeonhole boxes. Centrists are just sheep skin wearing future sellouts.

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.

That's all I needed to know. You are scared of checking their technical merit. You are scared of critical thinking and reality, and want to remain comfortable with delusional worldview shaped by others. I will use a phrase for you, "ambiguity aversion". It describes your thought process regarding GrapheneOS very well.