Does Vodou make me anonymous online?

No — no browser can promise that, and Vodou doesn't claim to. It reduces what's tracked and stored (memory-only cookies and history, tracker blocking, DNT/GPC signals, a generic user agent) and gives you tools like proxy support and region emulation, but it doesn't hide your IP address by itself, and a determined site can still fingerprint you through other means. For hiding your IP, you need a VPN or proxy — Vodou can route through one, but doesn't provide one.

Does Vodou save my browsing history?

No — this is by design, not a missing feature. See Why Vodou doesn't have a History page.

Has the password vault been audited?

No. It uses sound, standard cryptography (scrypt + Fernet/AES), but hasn't been professionally audited. For credentials you truly can't afford to lose, an audited password manager (Bitwarden, 1Password, KeePassXC) is the safer choice.

What platforms does Vodou support?

Windows, macOS, and Linux, from the same Python source, using Python 3.10+. A packaged standalone .exe is also available for Windows.

How do I find my Vodou version?

☰ → Help → About Vodou… shows the version, plus the live Chromium, security-patch, Qt, PyQt6, and Python versions underneath it. The version also appears in the footer (click it to open the GitHub repository) and is automatically included whenever you report an issue through the app.

Can Vodou be my computer's default browser?

Yes — ☰ → Settings → Set as default browser… registers it, though Windows and Linux each still require one confirming step of their own; see Setting Vodou as your default browser for the full walkthrough.

Can I install Chrome extensions?

No. Vodou's rendering engine (Qt WebEngine) can't load Chrome Web Store extensions at all. Instead, Vodou ships a small catalog of built-in, reviewed plugins you can turn on individually — see Plugins.

How do I update Vodou?

☰ → Help → About Vodou… → Update Vodou & engine pulls the latest code from GitHub and upgrades the bundled Chromium/Qt engine in one click. Vodou also checks for updates automatically about ten seconds after startup and every six hours after that — if one is available, the footer tag changes to "update available."

Why is Vodou's Chromium version so far behind Chrome's?

About Vodou shows two Chromium numbers, and they mean different things:

  • Chromium engine is the base version — the web features and rendering behavior Vodou has. Qt WebEngine, the engine Vodou is built on, picks one Chromium base per Qt release and stays on it, so this number moves only a few times a year.
  • Security patches is the Chrome release whose security fixes Qt has backported into that base. This is the number to compare with Chrome when you're asking "is this safe?"

For example, an engine can report a Chromium base of 140 while carrying security fixes through Chrome 151. Chrome itself ships a new major version roughly every four weeks, so the real security gap is the distance between the Security patches number and the current Chrome release — usually a few versions, not the dozen-plus the base number suggests.

That gap is real: until Qt ships its next WebEngine patch release, some vulnerabilities already fixed in Chrome remain unfixed in Vodou. Every browser built on Qt WebEngine shares this lag. Install engine updates promptly (see Updating the Chromium engine (Qt & WebEngine)), and if you need the very latest fixes for a high-risk site, current Chrome is ahead.

Is Vodou really open source?

Yes — the full source is public on GitHub under the MIT License.