diff --git a/static/faq.html b/static/faq.html index af7d2119f..8979f8afc 100644 --- a/static/faq.html +++ b/static/faq.html @@ -1016,23 +1016,27 @@
DNS resolution for other connections involving connections to the network / user provided DNS resolvers
+Vanadium, our browser and WebView implementation, uses
+ update.vanadium.app
to check for updates to components
+ providing revoked certificates and other data. It downloads the
+ components from dl.vanadium.app
.
Other Vanadium browser connections are initiated by the user such as the + search engine (defaults to DuckDuckGo), websites and retrieving favicons for + your bookmarks and the frequent sites shown on the home page. We enable + connection and cache partitioning to keep connections separate between + different sites. There are a few parts of state partitioning still being + implemented including cookie partitioning which is currently in the testing + phase but causes too many compatibility issues to fully deploy it by default + without any exceptions like Brave's heuristics to disable it for cross-site + login flows, etc.
+Unlike Chrome/Chromium, Vanadium WebView does not make connections beyond those initiated by the app using it so there are no default connections from apps using the WebView.
- -Vanadium browser uses update.vanadium.app
to check for updates
- to components providing revoked certificates and other data. It downloads the
- components from dl.vanadium.app
. Other connections are initiated
- by the user such as the search engine (defaults to DuckDuckGo), websites and
- retrieving favicons for your bookmarks and the frequent sites shown on the
- home page. We enable connection and cache partitioning to keep connections
- separate between different sites. There are a few parts of state partitioning
- still being implemented including cookie partitioning which is currently in
- the testing phase but causes too many compatibility issues to fully deploy it
- by default without any exceptions like Brave's heuristics to disable it for
- cross-site login flows, etc.