yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
I've checked this and it seems to be essentially the same as F-Droid's Fennec except it has a main developer in China and no organization behind it, so while open source and cleaner than official Mozilla builds which are *loaded* with telemetry and garbage, again I would put it in the single developer bucket and stick to F-Droid's build for trust and reliability. Good to know it's out there anyway.

( And no offense intended by mentioning it's from China -- F-Droid's main Fennec maintainer is from Russia, but they put out open source transparent reproducible builds. )
[Android Apps and Games] g000n:
Why do people mention when devs are from China or Russia but nobody mentions when developers are from US, Canada, UK, Australia etc or any of the Five Eyes countries? the subtle russophobia and sinophobia has to end.
[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
To have concerns based on assessments of region and government of developer is not necessarily national-phobia. Yes, it is true that some people share such opinions in an ignorant and offensive way driven by political or cultural disdain for a given country, but I don't think that pertains to the people in this conversation who seem to be assessing their security landscapes based on reasonable criteria. No one is exempt from criticisms about invasion of privacy and many of us have similar concerns about the invasion of privacy that American companies (and government) commit. The nature of exerted control and privacy invasions committed by governments is different from those committed by corporations and are therefore reasonable things to consider when assessing individual or enterprise privacy and security. This is I suppose to the point of us seeking more secure browsing options.
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
I've explicitly mentioned I have no issue, I literally wrote "it's good to know" this build exists, and I use F-Droid's, the other "offender". You'd be hard pressed to find anyone on XDA or elsewhere more obsessed with privacy than me, I don't run Google's Android, or any of its services either. Neither am I a fan of any Western "social media" toxic garbage.

Not a fan of "the West" in general either. You're barking up the wrong tree.

Precisely to prevent criticism based on nationality I spoke of where these two browsers come from and why it is not an issue. Mozilla themselves have helped out F-Droid knowing full well who's building it.

At any rate we're off-topic, really. I was just commenting on the general browser situation since people come now and then to ask where's Bromite at, and what are the alternatives.
[Android Apps and Games] lvints:
Thank you for pointing out this browser.

I was in doubt in just one question, when there are updates will there be some kind of notification or should I access the site?
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
There's no notification or auto-update, no.

See here : https://github.com/macchrome/droidchrome/issues/20
[Android Apps and Games] Ghisy:
Has anyone using this have been able to disable the stupid tab groups? I've checked the usual flags but can't seem to find the right one.

A quick search online only points to older Chrome/Chromium releases.
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
I hear you. It is incredibly annoying. Vivaldi has this under control and allows for completely personalized tab management, even with an actual tab bar as in desktop versions if one wants. Losing Bromite patches for privacy and de-Googling though. At least they have powerful ad-and-malware-blocking features with selectable lists and stay on top of Chromium versions.

At this point, all Chromium based browsers are a compromise of features. Win some, lose some.
[Android Apps and Games] Amd4life:
New fork by Uazo called chromite

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

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

github.com
[Android Apps and Games] hengkidermawan:
New home, now
[Android Apps and Games] Brandroid28:
anyone know how to transfer cookies? i tried following this, but it doesn't work. wouldn't care normally, but my wordle and other such games are saved in bromite
[Android Apps and Games] Ghisy:
Has this fork of Chromium been abandoned? ➡ https://chromium.woolyss.com/#android

Should I move to the Uazo fork? It's a little annoying losing bookmarks and history every time we have to switch to a new browser 😕
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
I don't think it's been discontinued or abandoned, in fact it was using the latest patches from Uazo as they were coming out and those builds and the ones for Linux have been going on for years. One could always open an issue on Github and ask.

Sometimes it just takes a while. Vivaldi themselves just took over a month between the last two snapshot versions that they put out and they have a whole team. That was stranger.
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
Builds are being released again. ( I don't know if it may have to do with some new Google shenanigans, not just this build or Vivaldi, I've also noticed a delay in many other builds based on the latest versions in the past few weeks. )
[Android Apps and Games] Ghisy:
I saw that, updated just in case. But I'm using the Cromite fork from uazo for now.
[Android Apps and Games] hyad94:
Hello, looking for cromite user, do you know how to connect Google account to sync all my stuff ?
[Android Apps and Games] Ghisy:
I don't think you can. The whole point of this fork (and others) is to be un-Googled.

You should just use Chrome if you want to sync stuff.
[Android Apps and Games] vacs03:
Hi, did you find a way to connect them? I see on the bottom of the cromite settings "you and google" and this menu
[Android Apps and Games] josito_theDH:
This is how Cromite works

Check for disabled sign-in on feature list

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

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

github.com
[Android Apps and Games] hyad94:
Nope still not, I saw theses options but still dont know how to reactivate them. Last time I asked, People have told me that the whole point of Cromite is to ungooglize Chrome, so I understand that there is no way to link your Google account
[Android Apps and Games] problemathic:
dont know. i thought others also expediencing. how many times hou download. sometimes it will work. but at some many instances or in many times it will stop on 66%. latsr youll see.
[Android Apps and Games] lars85destroyer:
Never had that issue
[Android Apps and Games] problemathic:
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what version youre using?
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
The arm64 builds for the next version (not yet released) are available here for whoever wants to test it in advance: https://github.com/bromite/bromite/releases/tag/64.0.3282.149

You need arm64 to test this; arm and x86 builds are not yet available and their build is in progress, otherwise the release would be ready and published.

I am publishing them before all the versions are built to get some early feedback, but these builds are exactly those that will be published for next release, unless you find some major issue (none are expected). The jump from 63 to 64 means that Chromium developers have done some good work on it.

Feel free to report if there is any new issue which was not there in previous version, and if you have any installation problem.
[Android Apps and Games] ouzowtf:
Just for the sake of completeness: the same update problem as with .150 by having .144 installed.

I tried all versions (because I don't know the difference) except the webview one on my OP3T.
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
From 63.0.3239.144 to 63.0.3239.150: already reported that it breaks.

From 63.0.3239.144 to 64.0.3282.149: it breaks as you report, but the break happened before so no surprise here. Thanks for your test.

From 63.0.3239.150 to 64.0.3282.149: no breaks expected as now the new version code is used, or whatever it is causing this.

I tested from 63.0.3239.150 to 64.0.3282.149 and it does not break.

The difference is the minimum android SDK needed. Modern and Monochrome do not install on latest Android versions.
[Android Apps and Games] problemathic:
then why downloads are stopping. cant even resume it even the host links are resumable? its just a luck to get it to 100% download complete
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
How could I know? Bad internet connections probably. I do not have problems downloading. If you want to find the solution, you need to test in many ways. First check if your network pings correctly. Try to download the same file 10 times with Bromite and 10 times with Chrome, and see what you find.

Then try to download a large file via wireless at home or similar, where the signal should be good. And see what happens with 10 large downloads in Bromite and Chrome. This is what it takes just to start...

Only if you have 100% ping successful you can do these tests. If your pings are not 100%, then you have network issues. Then Chrome/Chromium/Bromite will do whatever they do in these cases, and since they have the same code for downloads they are expected to do exactly the same.
[Android Apps and Games] Ace42:
No problems so far, all is well. And downloads don't stop for me (though I haven't encountered this in the past).
[Android Apps and Games] problemathic:
nah. got 10+ times happens on my download eith bromite. and yeah i tried downloading on another browsers they seems to works fine to me. just bromite. and yeah tested the latest google chrome and canary that has 120 mb+ on my device arm+64 devices 7.0+
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
Perhaps I was not clear enough. You have to check the network exactly while it is happening. You have to repeat the tests multiple times. 10 is a good start. You have to make sure it is repeatable under identical conditions while it does not happen with another browser on the same network. And one also has to check the logs to see if anything is reported. It could be anything. It is difficult to pinpoint bugs because the codebase keeps changing very fast, and basically you are reporting me bugs of Chromium. I cannot go to the Chromium issue tracker to enter each of them, I am not a proxy. So I have to focus only on those which might be related to the Bromite patches (adblocking, security).

If the bug is not reproducible I cannot start doing anything for it. See also: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-reproducibility-in-software-testing

Also, it needs to be tested for every new release since it could have been fixed.
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
I do not acknowledge any bug of Bromite unless it is reproducible and it is about the patches of Bromite.

If it is about Google services not working (signin, translations, data saver etc), it is not even a bug. The best we can do is completely remove the integrations that Google does not want to give to users of Chromium and its forks (which is fine, their servers their choice), but that will take some time.
[Android Apps and Games] problemathic:
okay bro. i undeestand that. anyways im using third party apps now for downloading ??. hope arm devi es could use the 120+mb of bromite ? cant wait for that. thank you for this.
[Android Apps and Games] Avalon:
Great browser, by it seems that I'm not able to login with my Google account. I gave the app the required permissions, but it keeps telling me that syncing failed "sign in again to start sync". Does anyone know how to solve this?
[Android Apps and Games] Ace42:
It's a known issue with browsers derived from chromium...only official Google projects (ie Chrome) are allowed to sign in. In the past tuga was able to login, but Google quickly fixed that, possibly for security reasons. There are no known solutions, and I doubt that'll ever change. Google wants users to use Chrome.

Also, the OP commented on this a few posts up.
[Android Apps and Games] Avalon:
Ah thanks for letting me know. The reason why I thought it might work is because this browser showed the option to login whereas tuga and SWE browser didn't.
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
There's an open issue about this problem: https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/31

Tuga and SWE browsers are based on Chromium 53 or 60, which is a lot behind current tip (64); I commit to have Bromite always build on top of the latest release of current stable Chromium, as explained in first post.
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
It is not 120 MB. It is more or less the same size as Chrome:

96.4 MB arm64_ChromeModernPublic.apk
96.9 MB arm64_ChromePublic.apk
132 MB arm64_MonochromePublic.apk
64.1 MB arm_ChromeModernPublic.apk
44.5 MB arm_ChromePublic.apk
65.2 MB arm_MonochromePublic.apk
108 MB x86_ChromeModernPublic.apk
54.4 MB x86_ChromePublic.apk
109 MB x86_MonochromePublic.apk

The Monochrome build ships with embedded SystemWebview and libbrowser.so, but it's equivalent to ChromeModernPublic. I think Monochrome should be faster because of the embedded uncompressed libbrowser.so (why would this build target exist otherwise?), but it's not a big deal.
[Android Apps and Games] problemathic:
in the future is it possible that youll release arm+64 bromite? :)
[Android Apps and Games] firmaniac:
[MENTION=8627832]csagan5[/MENTION] Adult sites blocked by Bromite?

oload.stream

tube8.com

xvideos.com

youporn.com
[Android Apps and Games] Daandofreak:
That's really bad.
[Android Apps and Games] Raven_999:
Oh man, can't even imagine the pain you're going through
[Android Apps and Games] Reptilez_DK:
Xhamster works. I've been told... ;)

Back on topic, I came here from CAF-browser, and love it. Thanks [MENTION=8627832]csagan5[/MENTION] for sharing !
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
As John McAfee once said, "no one should have to use xhamster". I went ahead because of this urgent issue and fixed the adblock filters immediately, so now the release will be built again with the corrected adblock filters. Thanks for your report! :cool:

Those who have already installed Bromite during tests will be able to install the released version over as an update. (Not yet. I said when it's released)
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
Thanks to [MENTION=2637227]blk_jack[/MENTION], that fixed an issue I was having with the upload, I could upload today in XDA Labs some builds for Bromite for the upcoming release; feel free to start testing it. I have no idea how it works, or if it will work at all for different SDKs/archs (I have asked blk_jack about this). So keep tuned, in worst case it will work only for 1 arch/SDK, in best case we get it working there for all combinations
[Android Apps and Games] firmaniac:
Bromite 64.0.3282.149 date 2/9/2018 working good.I can now access xvideos :D

Please add Adblocker Protector/Nano Defender in next version :good:

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
For now we have to use the simple adblocking engine, it is not easy to add any of those. I made a list of engines here: https://github.com/bromite/bromite/wiki/AdBlocking
[Android Apps and Games] jacomail95:
The SystemWebView.apk you put in github download page has adblock for apps in some way as improvement? Moreover, i cannot select it in Settings, i have to go back to stock WebView

Inviato dal mio Nexus 5 con Tapatalk 2
[Android Apps and Games] ogisha:
I have freezed original system WebView, and installed bromite webview.

Is it all I have to do to replace it?

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
Is download link available for v64? XDA labs show no results searching for Bromite. Website shows change log for it but download version still shows as v63
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
csagan5

v64 is available only as a pre-release for testing, so it is normal that it is not yet released. As for XDA labs, I explained in previous post the situation.

Nothing else, as far as I know. Does it work?

Yes, the SystemWebview of Bromite would have the adblock included. It is not possible to install it without rooting the phone and it is basically untested/not proven to work. It should work fine with rooted phones, but if you try then please report back and you would be one of the first tester.
[Android Apps and Games] ogisha:
Don't know how to check? ?

Do I have to make Bromite WebView system application?
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
csagan5

Yes, that's the first thing. Afterwards you can just visit (with the webview) a page which is known to have ads, and they should have been blocked.

In other news: I just checked on XDA Labs and the app is there, although it does not propose you to download the correct version for your SDK or CPU type, and does not offer the possibility to download other versions. So for example right now it shows only the SDK16+ ARM version, so if you want SDK21+ (Lollipop+) or the ARM64 version you have to use the Bromite website. We can just wait for XDA Labs to implement support for multi-SDK and multi-arch at this point.

(now I bet a bunch of posts saying they cannot install Bromite from XDA Labs on their ARM64 device will come up)
[Android Apps and Games] ogisha:
No x86 WebView. ?

EDIT: It showed uo now. ?
[Android Apps and Games] F6v7u6x6xx6:
Translate

please add the page language translation feature I would like to ask you if we could use it as webviev
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
64.0.3282.149 has been released.

It is available for download as usual from the Bromite Official website, which points to the Github Releases. It is also available for download from XDA Labs, but only for ARM and SDK16+. If you want the more modern SDK21+ version or for x86, arm64 you have to download it from the website/Github. We have to wait for XDA Labs to add support for multiple SDK/archs. (I will add this note to the first post)

I am still improving the adblock filters, so if you know of websites which are broken by the adblock filters in Bromite please report.

A gentle reminder: please donate (if/when you have an income) to support the build server of Bromite, I am thinking of getting a better server to have builds faster (right now it takes about 1.5 days if not more...it's annoying), it will need about 120EUR per year so it's not an impossible budget to reach. Aside from the cost of the server that I would like to have it covered (right now I am paying abouth half of it myself) the donations also keep open source developers engaged and motivated :highfive:
[Android Apps and Games] ogisha:
I had manually downloaded and installed x86 version, but XDA Labs constantly notifies me that I have update for Bromite.
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
It is a bug in XDA Labs, I have talked a bit with [MENTION=2637227]blk_jack[/MENTION] about these; maybe there is some trick I can do with next release, but no promises, for now you will have to ignore it. With next release I'll tweak the version code a bit and maybe it will not show as such until they fix the arch-matching logic.
[Android Apps and Games] jho55:
Hi,

I cannot update the last two versions of Bromite. Android tells me that there is a conflict. V.64 and last V.63. Should I uninstall my current installation or is it going to be fixed anyway? I can also wait.

Another question: When I go to About Google Chrome in Bromium it tells me that I have version 65.0.3321.0? But I am on version 63. Strange...

Thanks for your help.
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
I do not know what changed in the generated APK that makes this problem happen (it is not the package name, there is a previous post where I published this diff and it does not show has changed). I have also checked the badging:

--- badging_144.txt 2018-02-10 12:36:01.360000000 +0100
+++ badging_v64.txt 2018-02-10 12:36:21.628000000 +0100
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-package: name='org.bromite.bromite' versionCode='1515805786' versionName='63.0.3239.144' platformBuildVersionName='8.1.0'
+package: name='org.bromite.bromite' versionCode='1517708393' versionName='64.0.3282.149' platformBuildVersionName='8.1.0'
sdkVersion:'16'
targetSdkVersion:'27'
uses-permission: name='android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION'

There was no package name change; unless somebody discovers what causes the conflict, I cannot tell anything. You better uninstall the old one and install latest, but no guarantees that it will not break again (because we do not know how it broke in first place). Remember that files downloaded with Bromite gets deleted when you uninstall the app.

This bug is already reported: https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/21
[Android Apps and Games] CubaoX:
[MENTION=8627832]csagan5[/MENTION], maybe You could upoload apks to apkmirror.com?
[Android Apps and Games] Reptilez_DK:
Within XDA labs, you can choose to ignore updates, per app.
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
Just posting FYI I downloaded v64 and when downloading a file it stuck at 66% like someone else mentioned. Used an alternative browser at same time aad it downloaded fine, while bromite stayed at 66% so not a network issue. I will try again later to see if any different.
[Android Apps and Games] jacomail95:
I uninstalled Google WebView, installed the custom one in system/app/Webview/Webview.apk, but apps which use webview crashed all, so i believe it is not being recognized as a proper webview
[Android Apps and Games] ogisha:
Just freeze Google WebView and install Bromite's one. It works for me. Don't even need to make it system application.

If you are using Monochrome Public you don't need Bromite's WebView. Just freeze Google's.
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
I didn't think about that; I see they have an APKUpdater app too, this could be a nice way to distribute it until XDA Labs or other options are available. I wonder if they'd have the same issue with multi arch/SDK though.

[MENTION=4657522]ogisha[/MENTION] did you do this with root? Glad to hear that it's working.

If you report the logcat dump for the crash I should in theory be able to figure out why it crashes.

I have seen this reported online here and here. It could be a bug in Chromium. Can you also check the logs (via adb logcat) to see if we have any clue about this? I also need to start tracking the CPU type and Android version, and which version you installed (Monochrome or not).

This is the best approach until XDA Labs devs fix the issues, I think in a month or two they should have proper support of multi-arch/SDK (my guess). For now I will only distribute on XDA Labs the ARM version and SDK16+ because that's the most common combination.
[Android Apps and Games] jacomail95:
Applications like Opera Mini need WebView to work, but even when i freezed Google WebView leaving the Bromite one it kept crashing. I just think the Bromite WebView crashes because it is not compatible with Oreo 8.1 i am using as daily driver
[Android Apps and Games] csagan5:
As said in previous post, if you report the dump from logcat I can tell why it's happening and perhaps make a fix. It is not a compatibility issue, Chrome/Chromium are built for the latest Android versions; it is rather likely that there are bugs in Chromium coming out only when some privacy-invasive features are disabled like in Bromite (webRTC etc)
[Android Apps and Games] ogisha:
Yes I did it with root, but there is debloater which works without root. I think it could be used to freeze Google's WebView on non rooted devices. I am going to test it on one old non rooted phone of mine. Here's the link if somebody else wants to test it.

https://xdaforums.com/android/software/debloater-remove-carrier-bloat-t2998294
[Android Apps and Games] ogisha:
[MENTION=8627832]csagan5[/MENTION]

I have tested it and it works. ?