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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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[โ€“] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mozilla has a history of harming me. I've documented this as one more case of attacks from Mozilla to go along with everything else. I see no reason to put up with it or tolerate it. Mozilla should expect that one day they're going to be held accountable. If people at Mozilla aren't aware of the unethical behavior it regularly engages in including an exploitative approach to contributors, they should inform themselves.

- Daniel Micay (im the linked mailing list thread)

it doesn't seem like Micay had feuds previous to 2019 with Mozilla , though I was unable to find what he is referring to unfortunately .

[โ€“] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Might be interesting to go through the section "So why is Micay's behaviour so weird?" here :

https://old.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/13teoo9/grapheneos_corporate_foss_loving_witch_hunting/

Spoiler: I wrote it as part of my 5 year investigation into security zealots in FOSS/privacy communities. I have talked to Micay on occasions and studied his behaviour among others to get an idea of how people behave on internet.