further updates to the Vanadium section

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<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