I couldn't download files from a site I use because they apparently remove the referral information from requests even when you're navigating inside the same site (doesn't bring much privacy because anyone looking at the logs of that site can see the same IP moving from one page to the other).
Still a good browser, but like other projects that try to bring the Tor Browser changes to the normal web, it can break a few things.
I believe that's an outdated Github link. The project moved here with releases here. The search engine stuff has always seemed like a non-issue to me. I run both Fennec and Kiwi but the latter gives me a true black UI and support for fully side-loaded addons (not just those already on the Firefox website).
Well, kiwibrowser/src isn't updated because kiwibrowser/src.next is the actual up-to-date Kiwi Browser. Kiwi Next is similar to a beta version, and releases for Kiwi Browser are based on Kiwi Next. You can just compile Kiwi Next if you are paranoid. It's the best Android Chromium browser.
The whole search engine debacle was unnecessary, and that basically killed Kiwi's reputation even though it really had zero impact on anyone or anything. I mean, if the default search engine is something you don't prefer, it's just a few goddamn presses to change it to whatever you want.
Don't forget that the browser has access to all of the data that you see on your display and everything you type in. All of it. So he careful who you trust. Is it a community software, is it non-profit, is it for profit, does it have a sustainable funding / business model.
It's not just for Samsung phones, it works perfectly on my Pixel and Razer Phone as well. The Adblocking is okay but the design + the dark mode for all websites is the killer feature for me.
It's not just for Samsung phones, it works perfectly on my Pixel and Razer Phone as well. The Adblocking is okay but the design + the dark mode for all websites is the killer feature for me.
Brave is one of the only browsers on android that does decent ad blocking, but it's chrome based so it also works reasonably well on mobile sites expecting chrome.
It's worth knowing there are also a number of Firefox based browsers that have full extension support, and even the base Firefox app supports a couple extensions including ublock origin, so Firefox based browsers will also do extremely well with ad blocking :)
but agreed, websites definitely don't test Firefox as much as they should though, so you do sometimes need to switch to something chromium based if you want a browser with Mozilla's web engine instead of Google's
Unfortunately Brave's own blocking engine isn't capable to block as much as uBlock Origin, which Firefox supports on Android. But then Firefox might not work well on all sites... it's a trade-off. Firefox works on the sites I use though, so that's what I've been using.