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How safe is Webview browser
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Webview is whatever version of Chrome you have installed, so not very.
That depends on the ROM/OS. Granted, we're in the Android community, but GrapheneOS uses a hardened rendering engine, and never Chrome's/Android's even if you install them both from the Play Store:
https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing
Can you install an alternative webview if you have root/magisk?
Out of curiosity, why would you want to?
I honestly don't know as rooting and magisk go against the principles of a secure OS that GrapheneOS strives for. At that point, it is no longer GrapheneOS but GrapheneOS-derived, and the devs will not offer support... rightfully so, in my opinion.
Is it possible? I assume it is, but probably very difficult. Has someone gone through the effort to do so? Doubtful as that goes again the target audience of GrapheneOS users.
Yes you can, DivestOS has one, Bromite (no longer maintained) previously did.
This mentality of Google = bad and FOSS = good and secure is harmful.
nah, there are legitimate concerns around chrome's privacy stuff, a lot of people would be fine if they could run cromite or one of the privacy centric forks. the main issue is that vendors for some reason lock down webview to the google play store provider. I presume this is due to some false security notion around a bad webview being installed. but that would be a lot of steps so...
Android system webview is a different app and chrome is removed from my current user?
Sure thing. ๐
What sure
It's still Chrome and it's only technically a different app unless you've rooted your phone to replace it.
Got it