2y ago

Bromite is dead, long live Cromite.

GitHub - uazo/cromite: Cromite a Bromite fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!

The Bromite project has been inactive for the last 9 months or so. Today I found this fork of Bromite that's well maintained and seems to work flawlessly. Hope it helps others who were looking for a replacement.

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Why waste your time with this when Firefox exists?
- Can't use Firefox as system webview sadly.
  
  If you disable chrome and only have Firefox on it will use Firefox webview. Android should have make it use default browser or have a selection for default webview.
- I want to use Firefox on Android, but it's simply not there yet. It's noticeably slower, some sites have broken layout, and I kinda hate their tan management system. I still have it installed, and willing to switch if it's capable enough, but sadly it's not.
  It's the best browser on desktop though, by far.
- Because OP prefers Chromite, maybe? Just a wild guess...
  
  I think people who prefer things other than what I prefer should be round up and shot.
Thank goodness someone picked up the project and released a fork. The browser is too good to be abandoned.
Mulch?
- That's another good alternative.
Does it allow playback of DRM media? I have some cough science websites that needs DRM for playback.
- Yes, it does.
  
  Cool. I hope it is released on Play Store if it is possible. If brave & kiwi can be released, I'm sure they can also release without issue.
F-Droid release is long overdue
- Yes. I'm currently using their own f-droid repo. I might just keep using it even when the official repo is available, since f-droid is notorious for slow updates.
I'm using it rn. has the same bromite simplicity and smoothness with extra features
Kiwi is the only android browser for me, being able to access all the standard desktop addons is game changing, like damn.
I’ve not followed this scene a lot. Has chrome effectively killed off uBlock?
- It does work on desktop afaik. Not sure why they decided to go with ABP instead.
Are they including kiwi's extensions support? I know Bromite and others would not maintain it.
- Not yet. But there's experimental support for userscripts.
There is an open issue for JPEG-XL support. Once Cromite adopts JXL, I'd be willing to switch over
Mulch can also be said to be another spiritual successor to Bromite since it's also supposed to be hardened against threats.
I don't understand why bromite can't sync to chrome pc? Anyone?
- It's not in the dev's hands. There may be some workarounds, but Google discourages against using them.
  
  I wonder if they could use firefox sync
  i imagine it'd be more work as it's not pre-built, but samsung internet does it so maybe mozilla are a little more lax with who uses their services
  
  Can link workaround?

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