further updates to the Vanadium section

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<a href="#browser-and-webview">Browser and WebView</a> <a href="#browser-and-webview">Browser and WebView</a>
</h3> </h3>
<p>Before building GrapheneOS, you need to build Vanadium for the WebView and <p>Vanadium is a hardened fork of Chromium developed by GrapheneOS and used to provide
<em>optionally</em> the standalone browser app. Vanadium is a hardened fork of the WebView and <em>optionally</em> the standalone browser app. It tracks the Chromium
Chromium developed and used by GrapheneOS. It needs to be rebuilt when Chromium is release cycles along with having additional updates for downstream changes to the
updated or the GrapheneOS <code>Vanadium</code> patches are changed.</p> 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 <p>The browser and the WebView are independent applications built from the Chromium
source tree. The GrapheneOS Chromium build is located at external/vanadium and source tree. The GrapheneOS browser build is located at external/vanadium and the
includes the WebView.</p> WebView is at external/chromium-webview.</p>
<p>See <a href="https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/android-build-instructions"> <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 Chromium's Android build instructions</a> for details on obtaining the