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diff --git a/static/build.html b/static/build.html index 3ed46e3b..d161bb50 100644 --- a/static/build.html +++ b/static/build.html @@ -559,14 +559,15 @@ cd ../..</pre> <a href="#browser-and-webview">Browser and WebView</a> </h3> - <p>Before building GrapheneOS, you need to build Vanadium for the WebView and - <em>optionally</em> the standalone browser app. Vanadium is a hardened fork of - Chromium developed and used by GrapheneOS. It needs to be rebuilt when Chromium is - updated or the GrapheneOS <code>Vanadium</code> patches are changed.</p> + <p>Vanadium is a hardened fork of Chromium developed by GrapheneOS and used to provide + the WebView and <em>optionally</em> the standalone browser app. It tracks the Chromium + release cycles along with having additional updates for downstream changes to the + privacy and security hardening patches, so it's updated at a different schedule than + the monthly Android releases.</p> - <p>Chromium and the WebView are independent applications built from the Chromium - source tree. The GrapheneOS Chromium build is located at external/vanadium and - includes the WebView.</p> + <p>The browser and the WebView are independent applications built from the Chromium + source tree. The GrapheneOS browser build is located at external/vanadium and the + WebView is at external/chromium-webview.</p> <p>See <a href="https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/android-build-instructions"> Chromium's Android build instructions</a> for details on obtaining the |