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[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
Yes, I am going to build it with the same build settings as Bromite, just without the patches. So some features are still disabled via build settings and that affects the functionality (and bugs that may show up).

With the Chromium builds the necessary time for each new release will unfortunately increase a bit, thus getting a better build server (as I mentioned previously) becomes more desirable; I invite again all users (not you in particular that I am replying to here) to contribute with a donation if they can. I know that not all users read or post on this thread, but I have no plan to "nag" people for donations in other ways. So far I have received around 32EUR in donations (thanks again to all donors) that I allocate for the current build server cost (~80EUR).

On a side note, I discovered that the version I was building in some recent releases was not the stable one but the Beta one, due to a default in the chromium toolchain that I was not aware of; I have now fixed this problem (since Bromite commits to build the stable version) and thus next version will be the proper stable one and probably will show different behavior regarding the instability bugs that were reported (that are otherwise normal for the Beta Chromium). Also some features that are in Beta might not be yet in Stable, as Beta has all the experiments/high flux features.

In general I think that having always the Chromium and Bromite pairs will allow easier troubleshooting of problems, if any, and offer a reference for comparison.
[Android Apps and Games] RobotPhone:
Donated. Thanks for your time and effort to develop this!
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
Thanks! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Primokorn:
Donated too. Thanks for such a great browser!
[Android Apps and Games] ouzowtf:
Donated yesterday too.

(I just mention it to encourage other people to donate)
[Android Apps and Games] fitittome:
Me too! In the traditional sense. lol.
[Android Apps and Games] Avalon:
What is the benefit of this over using Google.com? Aren't Google searches encrypted by default?
[Android Apps and Games] d1n0x:
[MENTION=8627832]csagan5[/MENTION] just a thought... What is the point of building vanilla Chromium? There are apps out there that can download it for you. Why go through the trouble of building another browser instead of focusing on one?
[Android Apps and Games] 2x4:
looks like a great browser. how well does it work with lastpass?
[Android Apps and Games] Ntress:
done that, nothing works
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
Thanks you all! :o
[Android Apps and Games] Primokorn:
Nope. Encrypted only means that websites that you visit won't know what you were looking at but Google still knows everything you search.

It works flawlessly with Bitwarden so I guess there's no reason to have issues with Lastpass.
[Android Apps and Games] chopoLet:
Is this bromite too?
[Android Apps and Games] JFK1975:
Developer announced some days ago he is gonna develop chromium vanilla browser. So this is a different browser from the same developer.(with equal settings?)

I've tried to install from xda but installer tells me it isn't compatible with my system although my system is arm and nougat. Could there be a problem with aosp webview? Tried to install your webvieb but it also told me there is a conflict wirh existing one.

Tried Google's webvieb with Bromite no difference to the default one.
[Android Apps and Games] Ntress:
I'm new to bitwarden

does the autofill option works for you?
[Android Apps and Games] hackno01:
With me LastPass does not autofill username and password on Bromite.

But I've never got really into it..

Enviado do meu Nexus 6P através do Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
64.0.3282.204 has been released. The x86 builds are not yet available but will be shortly.

CHANGELOG

It is now possible to download the reference vanilla Chromium on top of which Bromite is created (see https://www.bromite.org/chromium); if you find a bug, it is necessary to first check if it is present in Chromium (except regarding the adblocking engine).

Edit: this release is suspended (in fact you see the old one on the official website) and marked as pre-release until I fix the reinstall problem. Reinstall is not needed at all, after the APKs are rebuilt it should be all good, so it should be re-activated within some hours.
[Android Apps and Games] abelenki:
arm_ChromeModernPublic.apk can't be installed - it reports error, that app can't be installed.

also, apk version didn't change in 64.0.3282.204. it's still 64.0.3282.193, and the build number is even lower - 1519522724.
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
No, it is Chromium. One would expect you could at least take the effort to read what is Bromite on the many places where it is written...then you would read that "Bromite is Chromium plus adblocking", that explains how Bromite stands to Chromium

I am not going to develop Chromium. I am going to build it. Please search on Google what is Chromium and save us the effort to have to write it all here. It is the standard Chromium, built without any patch. See previous post.

I will check again which Chromium version is there, but I believe it is the correct one, ARM and SDK21+
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
I am going to check this, thanks for reporting.

Edit: the build number problem is due to the fact that before I was building the Beta version, which has a higher version number. I will re-release the APKs to have a higher version number.
[Android Apps and Games] wilpang:
I've just reinstalled Bromite and the video player has been fixed woo hoo.

Maybe a clean install was required for Snapdragon devices...
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
No, it is because previous release was from Beta channel and this new one is from Stable channel.

Please note that reinstall is not needed and I have temporarily marked the release as "pre-release" while I am rebuilding them to fix the reinstall issue.
[Android Apps and Games] JFK1975:
Todays pre-release .204 works great again on my device as .168 did. No freezes or stuttering.

Thanks a lot:good:
[Android Apps and Games] problemathic:
whats the difference between monochrome.apk and modernpublic.apk
[Android Apps and Games] marcdw:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=74123065

ZTE Axon 7 A2017U, AOSiP 6.0-Derp ROM, Multiboot, Tapatalk 4.9.3
[Android Apps and Games] hiren_fi:
Removed from xda lab?? What happened?
[Android Apps and Games] b.roid:
noticed that also :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
Uh? It must be some confusing message, I deleted the previous .204 releases and activated the most recent one; they were the identical anyway. I removed the previous one to not have two listed with same version number.
[Android Apps and Games] b.roid:
its back! :highfive:
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
I have updated the official website https://www.bromite.org/ to pre-select the correct SDK and architecture versions (they get displayed in semi-transparent green).

[IMG="Pre-selection example"]https://i.imgur.com/Os8pJCc.png[/IMG]

A page for SystemWebView has also been added and (soon) a page for the vanilla Chromium.
[Android Apps and Games] IlD4nX:
I'm a bit confused on this: I have an op5 so I thought it was default the arm64 architecture. In reality I see arm... Am I wrong? Which version should I choose?
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
It would not work with arm64 if your CPU was not arm64; what navigator platform does it report from this page? https://www.bromite.org/detect
[Android Apps and Games] IlD4nX:
It says armv8l.

BTW, I downloaded and I'm using the arm64 version of you work, and it seems to work properly!

I don't know if it has been report as a bug or it's just me, I'm trying to turn on the data saving, the switch is working but when I back to the settings menu it's off again...
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
I fixed it; now it auto-detects armv8 as 64bit as it should be
[Android Apps and Games] wilpang:
Hi csagan5

I've received an update via XDA labs app regarding Bromite and updated this morning but the video player seems to be broken again and rotating to landscape restarts the video. Not sure what's happened, I'll try a reinstall I know it's not required but something seems to be broken when updating for me.
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
The version you installed before and the current one are all the same; your problem must be coming from another source.
[Android Apps and Games] k4rn8g3:
Does the bromite systemwebview block ads ??

Or it is just an updated webview with privacy features.. ??
[Android Apps and Games] wilpang:
Yeah I thought it was fixed so gutted that this has happened. A reinstall fixes it so definitely not sure what causes it I'll try not to mess with too much with the settings.
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
If you enable any experimental setting you should at least mention it when you report "Bromite is not working".
[Android Apps and Games] yayakuya:
can't sign in to chrome... :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] wilpang:
I've not touched any of the flags just the generic settings like force zoom and its only the video that doesn't seem to work when I update.

Apologies if I didn't make that clear, the rest of the browser is spot on.
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
Credits go for 99% to the open source Chromium project; the patches of Bromite are less than 1% probably. Can you test if you have the same issues with the corresponding Chromium? https://www.bromite.org/chromium
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
The new builds for .204 solve this problem and I have re-activated the release; the x86 builds are not yet ready but will be within some hours
[Android Apps and Games] wilpang:
Hi csagan5

I will install and have a try but only seems to occur when I update, hopefully it's just my phone that has the issue.

Thank you for your patience. I have donated for your hard work.
[Android Apps and Games] Primokorn:
Yep. In Bitwarden app I select "Scan when the password field is selected" and I do get a notification when I press a password field.
[Android Apps and Games] alagga:
How can you disable it on newest Version?

EDIT: Sorry it's working the same, they just renamed the option so I didn't find it.
[Android Apps and Games] problemathic:
The chromium got data saver. Thank you for this. Gonna stick with this now.
[Android Apps and Games] bleuiko:
Doesn't work with lastpass; too bad. I guess I'll go back to Brave for now.
[Android Apps and Games] IlD4nX:
I don't know if it has been report as a bug or it's just me (most probably), I'm trying to turn on the data saving, the switch is working but when I back to the settings menu it's off again... So in the end, I'm not able to enable it.

Has anyone suggestion for me ?
[Android Apps and Games] ouzowtf:
Yes, search for the solution in this thread
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
Here's a couple of suggestions. Read the OP and understand the main purpose behind this browser. Also, search the thread as required before asking something that most likely has been asked many times before, or at the very least read a few posts back.
[Android Apps and Games] IlD4nX:
Uhmmmm sorry, I didn't realize Google services included also data saver. Good to know. Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] 4Freedom:
Is possible to have a different package name for the Webview, so can be installed without overriding the system one?

According to android documentation it should be possible and it allows us to choose the custom one from Setting>Developer Options.

More info here https://developer.android.com/about/versions/nougat/android-7.0.html#webview and here https://www.chromium.org/developers/androidwebview/android-webview-beta

At least for users with 7,8 or P.:good:
[Android Apps and Games] alagga:
Would like to know that, too. What's the point with new webview?
[Android Apps and Games] k4rn8g3:
It is the (Chromium) Engine for all apps which show webpages .. For eg jelly browser in lineage OS

And yeah..

It blocks ads and has all patches the main bromite app has..

[MENTION=8627832]csagan5[/MENTION] can u plz build vanilla chromium webview (instead of vanilla chromium as chromium.woolys.com already has latest builds from Google servers) if possible ??
[Android Apps and Games] dimqua:
Why you need it? Isn't LOS's WebView vanilla enough?
[Android Apps and Games] k4rn8g3:
It is ..

But it is not updated as frequently as this webview..
[Android Apps and Games] Ntress:
why I can't choose other search engines other than Google. co.uk in settings?

I want to have Startpage or duckduckgo..
[Android Apps and Games] Ace42:
Visit https://duckduckgo.com/

Search anything

Duckduckgo will appear as a search option.
[Android Apps and Games] amin318:
I dunno but in my experience its surprisingly fast! I used adguard but because of too many filter it get slower and slower but this browser ...
[Android Apps and Games] Ntress:
thank you, it works

however how do i do that for Startpage / SearX ?
[Android Apps and Games] Damian Malejka:
Synchronization with google account do not work. I logged to google in this app, but I see a message "Update your login details".
[Android Apps and Games] abacate123:
Sync will only work for the official Chrome apps.
[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
This is a nice browser. Thanks [MENTION=8627832]csagan5[/MENTION] for making it available and [MENTION=4004386]Ultramanoid[/MENTION] for letting me know about it. A question, the answer to which may be "Gaaaah! Google! (while shaking fist at sky)". Is there any way to make the bookmarks button more accessible as it once apparently was in Chrome? I've tried recommendations to change some values in chrome://flags but the available options have changed rendering that workaround useless. Neither home-screen widgets or shortcuts are viable workarounds in this this case either. When accessing many sites at once the difference between 2 taps and 3 taps to access each bookmark adds up and it would be nice if that could be avoided.
[Android Apps and Games] ouzowtf:
Always the same users in the threads of the good apps :D
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
I know it's not my place to answer for csagan5, but I believe he only patches things related to privacy, tracking, et al. Otherwise it's Chromium as it comes, interface quirks and all.

I can think of a possible workaround to enjoy this project's benefits with a different UI though. Patched WebView builds are also provided, so you could use one of those in combination with a good WebView browser of your choice. ( Floss Browser, Lightning, Naked, etc. )
[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
That's what I though from reading the OPs but wanted to check anyhow. Sadly this seems to be one of Google's concision decisions to present to us their statistical view of us rather than what we actually want to see. Recommended for me? Harrumph! That's what my bookmarks are!

I did no go as far as playing with webview versions and probably wont, in order to keep an eye on the LOS and Gapps bits that I'm general testing/using. In any event it is nice to have a secure Chromium/Chrome option which, among a few browsers that I keep on devices, would be used for accessing webcams. Thanks for the tips.
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
The Chromium build does not have any patch. It is written on its page: https://www.bromite.org/chromium

It is just Chromium built with minimal settings (but very close to official Chrome release).

The Chromium System Webview has been provided since the first day together with Chromium builds, it is on the same page and on the Chromium Github releases as well.

The package name for Chromium is org.bromite.chromium to avoid confusion with all the other Chromium around; normally it is org.chromium.chrome.

The Chromium System Webview I believe has the default package name.

I have also experienced recently this problem where Bromite's search engines cannot be selected and there is only one. I could only work it around by reinstalling Bromite, although I am sure you can do a less invasive intervention by deleting just the cache (not tested) or some files in the data directory (one of them contains the cached search engines JSON).

As Ultramanoid said, the project is about privacy and specifically ad blocking; I am not supporting/developing any UI changes which are unrelated to this topic. For any other project that wants to change the UI, they have to choose to either stay on mainline Chromium or fork a lot of the UI. It is a lot of work to deviate from mainline Chromium for most UI changes.
[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
I realized that was the case from reading the OPs and other references in which you made that clear, and I wasn't asking for anything beyond knowing whether or not this was possible as-is (with no complaint that it is not). It might have been natively possible without any UI tweaks if Google had not removed a particular one of the chrome://flags. This is why I predicted my only recourse would be "Gaaaah! Google! (while shaking fist at sky).
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
Well, you are free to complain :) everyone would like a browser tailored to his/her needs, but what I can hope/try to achieve in Bromite is to cover the basics which I/we believe are missing from Chrom* releases (adblocking, ease to disable privacy-damaging features). Of course help is welcome in the form of new patches (or patches that already exist but I do not know about) for the improvement of these declared goals. I do not moderate this discussion in any form explicit (I am not a XDA forum moderator anyway) or implicit, so feel free to discuss anything as far as it is on topic. If I do not reply sometimes it is because the questions have been asked repeatedly, I prefer to award somebody that takes the effort to read a bit before posting rather than spam the thread.
[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
I may be free to complain but I haven't done so. The fact that Google does not give us what we want is one of the reasons that we are all here. You could say we are in the same boat, or perhaps in the same bloat. :silly:

That is exactly why I like Bromite for remotely accessing webcams. Thanks for it!

Considering that "Most popular" sites is a form of usage tracking I would proffer that being able to use dedicated bookmarks instead is consistent with the goal of privacy, but again I say this with no "ask", which is why I was hoping to share some good chrome://flags tweaks which would be a nice compliment to a browser focused on privacy. Apologies if that was off topic or spamming the thread. In any event, it's nice to have a more private option such as Bromite for the webcams.
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
That has already been addressed since release 64.0.3282.168; the new tab page does not fetch popular sites from Google and does not even fetch the logo if you use Google as search engine.

No, I did not mean you were. I was more commenting on the general trend of this thread (more users, more repetition of questions - not really your type of questions though).
[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
D'oh! Even though I had seen a previous comment about the logo I was not properly discerning the difference between locally stored popular (frequently accessed) sites and ones that are stored in and fetched from the Googleverse. Since I've never previously allowed Chrome on my devices I'm behind the learning curve. Thanks for the clarification.
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
You're welcome. I do not imply though that Bromite blocks all connections to Google servers (see also issue 8), there are so many scattered in the code that it is a sensible effort to tackle all of them. If you are interested in that you might want to give a look to Inox patchset (Bromite uses some of those patches too), but it is not targeted for Android as far as I know. The patches in Bromite address the bulk of the problem without hunting each of them
[Android Apps and Games] JsteedXDA:
I've tried signing in and it won't let me ,it says this information is already signed in etc.. Help please..
[Android Apps and Games] d1n0x:
Seriously, do we have to read the same questions over and over again? Please, read before you post.
[Android Apps and Games] Ace42:
You cannot sync chrome bookmarks or link your Google account. This has been mentioned too many times, try searching the thread.
[Android Apps and Games] MtBlackstar:
Bromite the best browser to consider for people who go gaaps less like me thanks [MENTION=8627832]csagan5[/MENTION] for its development .
[Android Apps and Games] tarroyo:
Will def be using this, Since tuga browser went ghost!
[Android Apps and Games] b.roid:
tuga had no choice. no more caf releases.
[Android Apps and Games] scannman:
Bottom navigation
[Android Apps and Games] alfred5:
The big problem, browsers with adblock make loss money to owners of websites.

All adblocks must allow google ads.
[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
Bottom navigation? Navigate your "bottom" to a thread where that comment would be on topic. ;).

But seriously, as was recently explained to me in the past few pages, and as is explained in the OPs, this is about making the browser more private and secure, not about UI changes. If you read those previous posts you will see that you and I are actually looking for similar UI changes, but this is not the place to ask for them. You could try researching some of the Chrome flags that I referenced in those posts to see if they will help you tweak the UI, but again that's not really a topic for this thread.

Additionally, in a software development community where we pay nothing for these offerings, you might consider changing the tone of your requests but that's another story.

---------- Post added at 02:18 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:08 AM ----------

More OT:

If the ad industry and web sites want less blocking then they should consider changing their approach, particularly regarding tracking and targeted advertising. Websites are more likely to get money from me, if they don't saturate their site with advertising.

In any event, a thread dedicated to privacy and ad blocking may not be the best place to try making a case for not blocking ads. ;)

Apologies for the OT.
[Android Apps and Games] scannman:
I didn't realize we were on a site devoted to bromite. I can think of a few places off the top of my head you could navigate to but we wouldn't want to go off topic now would we?

Who are you apologizing to, btw? I know it's frowned upon to make light of the recently cucked but is there someone on here threatening you? You might very well have to put up with that in real life but this is the internet. Hopefully someone here with the right credentials could assist you.
[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
Then you not only failed to read recent posts and search as are XDA rules which you agreed to when you signed up , but you did not even read the thread title which is at the top of every page.

No has one threatened me. It was respect that motivated me to apologize to the creator of Bromite as well as the people who follow this thread, for my own going off topic. Now, let's show some respect by not continuing this discussion (which would most likely have both of our posts be modded).
[Android Apps and Games] Ace42:
[MENTION=8627832]csagan5[/MENTION] I was able to trigger the bottom bar on the latest version! Now people can stop bugging you.

Edit: Forgot to list the flags I changed. Not sure which helped.

chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-canvas-features

chrome://flags/#enable-future-v8-vm-features

chrome://flags/#disable-pull-to-refresh-effect

chrome://flags/#expensive-background-timer-throttling
[Android Apps and Games] scannman:
Didn't work for me [emoji853]

** worked after I changed a couple more flags thanks. Did your install have any of the home flags changed?
[Android Apps and Games] ouzowtf:
Navigation at the bottom is only

chrome://flags/#enable-chrome-home

Restart twice as stated at the hints of the flag and be happy.
[Android Apps and Games] scannman:
You might have missed my edit
[Android Apps and Games] ouzowtf:
I didn't miss it, but posted the solution because you still we in the dark about it.