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Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Viewing websites in Firefox for Android will use GeckoView and GeckoView only.

Android System WebView is only involved when other applications (not Firefox) calls the WebView API to display web pages. (e.g. when a Lemmy app opens an external link without launching a browser).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. So using both

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the problem with using both?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Double the code, issues and attack surface. A lot better way to address the issue is using the same better webview for all. Many benefits by FF will be nulled by the system webview. Feels like fake sense of security/privacy.

https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing

Explains a lot also