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Sailfish Browser: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Sailfish Browser is the default browser of Sailfish OS, the Linux-based mobile operating system from the Finnish company Jolla. It is built on the Gecko engine and offers site permissions, a password manager, certificate information, saving pages as PDF and a restricted captive-portal mode. The system's email viewer uses the same engine. It is a local app on the device and needs no separate cloud service.

Jolla is based in Tampere, Finland, and therefore in the European Union. The browser's source code is public on GitHub under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. The operating system itself is offered under an exclusive licensing model in which licensees receive access to the full source code. Choosing Sailfish OS therefore means a platform from a European vendor. Where Android apps are run through the optional compatibility layer, the organisation still has to check for itself where those apps send their data.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 10, 2026
Headquarters
FI (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Browser
Type
Product
Website
sailfishos.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Sailfish Browser

The European alternatives to Sailfish Browser come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Sailfish Browser

Sailfish Browser is headquartered in FI and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Sailfish Browser scores best on data residency.

Sailfish Browser is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Sailfish Browser together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Sailfish Browser?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Sailfish Browser include Ecosia Browser, Falkon and Iridium Browser. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Sailfish Browser?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Sailfish Browser include Falkon, Iridium Browser, Konqueror, LibreWolf, Midori, Mullvad Browser and Nyxt. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Sailfish Browser GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Sailfish Browser is headquartered in FI (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Sailfish Browser an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 10, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

We found none of these signals on the vendor's own site when we checked.

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

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