[shawnz]

> Please be aware that the Chrome browser does not offer a secure local storage protocol for its developers ... Compare this to Safari, which offers secure local storage at OS level security

But this is just as secure as full disk encryption of the device right?

[chrisballinger]

Not for malware running in user space.

[vetinari]

Running in user space is not enough. It would need root. It is also hard to keep root, when you have dm-verity and selinux in enforcing mode.

Android applications are also sandboxed from each other. You would have hard time getting from one app to another's files, unless the original app published them - or you've got root.

[md_]

The browser runs in user space. Desktop OSes don't offer any sort of partitioning here. So there's very little reason to have any app-level encryption on a desktop OS.