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[Android Apps and Games] bernard134:
I don't think you are able to sync that, as Chrome sync is disable. It's started on the first post of this thread.
[Android Apps and Games] NuzaStudio:
Thanks for the nice words about the speed :)b
[Android Apps and Games] Dirk:
On Chrome desktop go to Bookmark Manager and export to HTML. Copy that HTML file to your phone. Use the option in Kiwi to Import Bookmarks and use the HTML file.
[Android Apps and Games] wlanguide:
Hello, thanks for the great app.

I now use it as my default browser and just love it. I have a little question, after doing a search on baidu.com (China's largest search engine), I could not add it as the default search engine (just do not see baidu.com in the search engine tab). I have no problem with other search engines in China however. BTY, I can add baidu in Chrome.

Thanks for your time man.
[Android Apps and Games] Phantom Thief:
Hey just a question on the homepage there's always news however I'm getting news from countries I don't care about. How do we filter them?
[Android Apps and Games] ThePscho:
I use this awesome browser for a long time. I hope this will come to PC/MAC/Linux too. Because we need this in everywhere ! Congrats !
[Android Apps and Games] fushinari:
Still facing issues with recaptcha. It works once in a while but mostly returns Please Try Again. It works perfectly in other browsers.
[Android Apps and Games] Cuma Orang Biasa:
Thanks a lot for the great browser app :good:
[Android Apps and Games] Tomatot-:
Hi, do you have any news about this issue? Kiwi detects DDG, even wordreference but not searx nor startpage.

Thanks for your browser anyway.
[Android Apps and Games] alreadyregistered:
Bump. :)
[Android Apps and Games] ONYZERO:
Merged tabs

So merged tabs was removed in chrome V51, any way to bring back support in kiwi? Would it even work in Android 8 and 9? Would be willing to pay to get that feature back...

Ability to hide the home button on the url bar would be great too!
[Android Apps and Games] erto90:
Just a question.. battery side, is better Kiwi or Chrome?
[Android Apps and Games] andrepgaspar:
Battery difference is irrelevant between chrome or kiwi. Just get kiwi if you want its features.
[Android Apps and Games] █████:
it looks like the Browser is dead now? no development, no commenz from the op, no answers on discord,...

stay save on the Internet and use an up to date Browser with the newest Security Features.

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it looks like the Browser is dead now? no development, no commenz from the op, no answers on discord,...

stay save on the Internet and use an up to date Browser with the newest Security Features.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
There is no public builds for 5 days, it's still active :D

I have lot of things to do, stay updated ;)
[Android Apps and Games] sherpa25:
Where do we check for updates? Didn't find any in the OP. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Tomatot-:
Play store?
[Android Apps and Games] eliezerjk90:
In the play store maybe? ?
[Android Apps and Games] sherpa25:
Ok.... pretty vague though, as in phone, it says Kiwi 70.0.3538.64, while in Playstore it says Marshmallow. Wish they were bit more consistent to check more easily, just a suggestion, in addition to post #3 showing the change log.
[Android Apps and Games] eliezerjk90:
Marshmallow? :o in my play store the latest version is watermelon which is same with what mentioned in the 3rd post
[Android Apps and Games] sherpa25:
Yeah, right, Watermelon. Sorry, was thinking of other things :)
[Android Apps and Games] Tomatot-:
What the ****? :eek:
[Android Apps and Games] Ice Bear:
Ice Bear is just as confused as Tomatot- is.
[Android Apps and Games] DaRdamnDoG:
Definitely a much better version of "browser", everything is at the top of your finger (Downloads/Night Screen/AdBlock switch/Translation & Clear Browsing Data).

Great video playback experience as well. However, its costing me close to 200MB of storage space. (Similar to Samsung Internet Beta which is superb, just saying).

Keep up the great job! Cheers.
[Android Apps and Games] abacate123:
Unfortunately, bottom bar design (flag called before as Chrome Home) has been deprecated/canceled by Google a while ago (since v66, if I recall correctly), and replaced with the Modern UI flag (#enable-chrome-modern-design), which's the actual one, and is activated by default in this browser.

Unless there's some way to get it back... Which's far from my knowledge.
[Android Apps and Games] bagajohny:
I would like it(the bar) as an option. Most people seem to like it at bottom but I like it at top. It would be great to have a toggle.

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Is there any way you can add google account to this browser? So history can be synced? So that search bar can show suggestions. If so this would definitely replace Chrome for me.
[Android Apps and Games] SynthBpm:
yeah, I know that the bottom bar code is gone, but arnaud had said in this thread that he'd like to try to reimplement it himself. that may be optimistic and and too large of an undertaking, but I can hope.

oh and afaict Google doesn't allow anyone else (as in any fork or other app) to login for history syncs as a security or privacy or platform lockin thing. im pretty sure that would be almost unfeasible to implement.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Salut,

Aujourd'hui non, bientot, oui :D
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Can you please go to

chrome://ntp-tiles-internals/

and take a screenshot or paste the lines talking about xda-developers ? :o

This will allow me to know how this website arrived on the homepage and why this specific URL.

Thank you very much,
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
https://developer.qualcomm.com/software/snapdragon-llvm-compiler-android :highfive:

This is totally something to do yes.

After that, then I can claim "Optimized for Snapdragon". Not before, that would be false advertising.

I don't know what will be the performance impact on other devices but I have an automated test suite that captures the number of FPS+running time, so I should be able to do something.

By the way, this is the schedule so far:

- Night mode update (today)

- New new tab page (around 15th)

- Upgrade to Chromium 69

- Bottom bar as an optional feature
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
This exact moment where things have gone wrong way:

https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/...rface-now-chrome-duplex-address-bar-back-top/
[Android Apps and Games] Tilman:
I deleted the sites on the homepage all of em cause i didn't use, & the G6 forum page I regularly visit. This is how Chrome & my current browser Brave works. I really wish to either get this solved or get Speed Dial(which is scheduled in an upcoming update) so I can just make the switch to Kiwi. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Thanks for the screenshot. Yes I will work on the Speed Dial (giving the user the full choice on what to put) rather than fixing this.
[Android Apps and Games] bagajohny:
Is there any way you can add google account to this browser? So history can be synced? So that search bar can show suggestions from history. If so this would definitely replace Chrome for me.
[Android Apps and Games] b.roid:
google account can't be added.
[Android Apps and Games] abacate123:
Yeah, chrome duplex is a different thing. I downloaded the very latest chrome canary build, enabled this flag, and this was the result (weird af):

It created a completely useless white bottom bar, that literally does nothing, lol.
[Android Apps and Games] penfold:
Fantastic Browser ....just tried it and much faster than other browsers in loading web sites, and the font display is excellent.

If I could make a couple of suggestions/request:

Need to be able to import bookmarks somehow ....possibly by adding manual import of an html bookmark file. Not really useable without being to import my bookmarks, and manual import at least should be possible as dolphin is able to do it, and it's actually quite a hassle free method, much less of a pain than troublesome sync methods.

Also, the ability to be able to clear browsing data on exit would be nice.

I also can't see any way to edit pinned/top sites on the home page, or even add them.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Donzotic:
Black mod theme or night mode

Hi, almost perfect.

I use uc browser (the alibaba spy browser)just for the black theme. It will be perfect if your browser would be black. For better energy management.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Hi,

In few hours will come out the new night version, which adds support for full black (except home page). No spyware inside (no time to implement :D).

I'm fixing some subtle details and it's coming.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Manual import of bookmark is planned, not the sync though.

It's officially impossible, but I have two ideas to explore, and I'm quite sure that at least one of the two ideas is going to work :o

My prototype works, but I need to do the coding now.

I've noted your idea for clear browsing data on exit. It's probably more likely going to be an always incognito checkbox/setting.

The main reason is that, if you actually clear browsing data on exit, then the browser may take up to several seconds to exit if there is lot to clear and there is a slow device.

Usually, these kind of features are when you want to keep your privacy, and you don't want your boss/mom/brother/friend to know what you were browsing while the browser is closing.

Which is why I tend to prefer the always incognito mode.

For speed dial, this feature is planned in around a week or so, depending on how quick I can implement it.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Ah, you mean outside of the night mode

I see. Thanks for the suggestion, I have to figure out the whole theme thing (only black is easy, since the night mode is triggering it)
[Android Apps and Games] b.roid:
would be great to have it like this.

I'm using a substratum theme on chrome.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Hi,

New version release: Ilama

Release notes:

This version features an improved night mode and unlocks Facebook Messenger.

- Feature: Facebook Messenger is unlocked on https://m.facebook.com

- Feature: Night mode grayscale and contrast setting

A contrast of 100% will turn off black pixels on devices with AMOLED screen.

- Fix: Dark websites becoming white in night mode

- Fix: Images incorrectly displayed in night mode

- Fix: Contextual search not working on Google (english-only)

- Fix: Annoyances and minor content filter issues

Available on XDA Labs and Play Store (the time for Google to validate).
[Android Apps and Games] Amd4life:
I would truly appreciate a default incognito mode for this browser!!!
[Android Apps and Games] ToreSalvo:
About turbo mode, you could download only low res preview like instant chat do when you set "don't download automatically" ?

With the possibility to download full quality!
[Android Apps and Games] KaaMyA:
How can I set that feature up?
[Android Apps and Games] Saelfos Emaka:
The best browser

Your browser is definitely the best browser ever...

Thanks dude

One thing, can we get a new cool icon?

The current one is nice but i am excited for a new icon...

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] suolrihm:
After several months of usage i also need to say: Thank you. Really love Kiwi and can't see me switching the Browser anytime soon. Please, keep on working on this great App and again thank you for the less troublesome App Experience i got so far :D
[Android Apps and Games] sadex99:
how to use with external downloader like idm or adm?
[Android Apps and Games] Sock Puppet:
Sow loving the features of this hrowsy. Truly thank you.

My main question is if there is a setting or feature that allows highlight/select entire field when tapping in the browser search bar. Currently it highlights all if it is a URL with tap but if it was a search inquiry, you have to double click or hit (x) on the side to clear field. Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] fishnchips2:
Thank you so much [MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION], this app is the best browser I've used on Android. Thanks also for being so open and helpful to the community. Is there a beta version of this browser I can use to help with development and get more frequent updates?
[Android Apps and Games] jiraffa:
Dear [MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION]

Any fix? are you able to reproduce the same "error"?

brgds
[Android Apps and Games] kot2202:
When I am downloading any file it crashes the browser and says the downloading failed, am I the only one experiencing that? It doesn't happen with other browsers.
[Android Apps and Games] Saelfos Emaka:
Animations are kind of really fast, we need some animations dude :)
[Android Apps and Games] grandpa2007:
the news can not be removed... (201811271911)
[Android Apps and Games] Tomatot-:
Menu => settings => startup page => untick "news on homepage"
[Android Apps and Games] grandpa2007:
are you sure? that does not work.
[Android Apps and Games] DocteurN:
Works for me!
[Android Apps and Games] b.roid:
works for me. no fake news anymore :highfive:
[Android Apps and Games] grandpa2007:
thanks for the answers, have everything set - news are displayed.
[Android Apps and Games] DivyanshuJ:
Hi Developer, I have following this forum for quite some time now.

Very good job on the browser. Just one thing to ask, you mentioned to remove FB trackers in the future release. Any plans for it in the next release?
[Android Apps and Games] kvevand63:
Same here. Also can not set #simplified-ntp in flags.
[Android Apps and Games] sedan206:
the news does not disappear from the first time, you need to disable it in the settings and click the cross on the right on the main screen and unload the application several times from RAM
[Android Apps and Games] wilpang:
What has the developer done to make this smoother than both Chrome and Bromite? For some reason Bromite is laggy but super fast...
[Android Apps and Games] onliner:
CAF stuff and hacks.
[Android Apps and Games] phanimitra vadlamani:
Well....this is off-the topic....but need help...

Whenever we surf internet...each and every website will know about browser..they know whether the client has chrome/uc/kiwi/firefox/opera/some browser....some block uc browser from loading their webpage....there comes the problem....i want to make that websites to think that im using Chrome even though i use uc....is there any method I'm interested in????
[Android Apps and Games] ToreSalvo:
turbo mode

some browsers download pages without images, i wonder if this mode could help, making a single image of the page downloadable by users separately from others...
[Android Apps and Games] :
The method you are suggesting is called User Agent string. This string is used to identify the browser you are using to visit the website.

Now, The uber popular UC browser is based on Chromium engine just like Chrome, Kiwi, Bromite so some websites actually identify UC as Chrome, Unless the UC team has changed the User string.

You can check you user agent here - Html5test

Check this -

Or on chromium based browsers - chrome://version

Bromite spoofs the user agent so that Bromite is always seen running Chromium 63 on a Samsung Galaxy J7 when in reality, it runs on very very different models and a higher chromium version.

What Bromite is doing is what you are interested in. You must ask the dev for that matter.
[Android Apps and Games] ameliagomes:
keep sharing this type of ideas.
[Android Apps and Games] tarroyo:
Incorrect, There is no beta channel.
[Android Apps and Games] █████:
so is this Browser dead or what? I don't see any develompent ... [MENTION=225651]op[/MENTION] please say Something about the future of this Browser. thx
[Android Apps and Games] onliner:
No, latest "test" version was released 2 days ago, check Discord.

Edit: My bad, it was just 1 day ago :p.
[Android Apps and Games] █████:
but this doesn't even have the same signature. So I have to uninstall kiwi and install this weird dev version. Why don't make a beta channel on gplay or release at least once a month a new version? Dark mode requests are already fixed and so on.. just do frequent updates. is it that hard?
[Android Apps and Games] ★Michaelo★:
Why won't you just make your own chromium browser then? It's open source so instead of rushing the dev, you can maintain your own stuff, is that too hard? :)
[Android Apps and Games] matrixisreal:
i know that the idea to move the "toolbar" to the bottom is not new here

my idea would be to replace the "info" icon/button with adblock on-off icon/button.

1. the info button has the same function as the icon left from the URL in the adress bar

2. i have to disable the adblock often enough so it would be worth it
[Android Apps and Games] treboR2Robert:
Good idea
[Android Apps and Games] matrixisreal:
[MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION]

i also have an idea how to improve the black ui and overall tab overview

https://img.picload.org/image/dclcigpg/kiwi1.png
[Android Apps and Games] matrixisreal:
Also i think we should change the default behaviour when you swipe sideways on the adress bar. right now you switch between the tabs.

i would want to swipe on the adress bar to go backward and forward.

we already have the tab overview with vertical swipes (which is much more effective compared to pure sequential horizontal approach)

i also think Kiwi should get more bold defaults.

right now if you install it, it looks like chrome out of the box. there is only the ad blocker which is clear difference between chrome for new users.

but kiwi has features with real world use.

bottom adress bar should be on default

night mode should have 101% contrast on default

open in external apps enabled on default

qwant.com , startpage.com , duckduckgo.com should be included search engines
[Android Apps and Games] Tomatot-:
I agree except for changing tabs it's very convenient this way. To go back just press on the back button, no point of using the omnibar. And to go forward, it's more rare and once it will be moved to the bottom of the menu it will be very accessible as well.
[Android Apps and Games] matrixisreal:
OK you're right on this point ?
[Android Apps and Games] armand_paz:
Is open tab syncing possible?

OK so I consume content online like crazy but also sometimes just leave tabs open for later and it can get a bit out of hand. Is there a way to sync all open tabs or export them in HTML or something somehow?

I am looking to format my phone cuz it is just sluggish as hell and did not want to lose all my open tabs in doing so (cannot figure out a way to backup my entire Kiwi browser data and nothing is saved under Android > Data > com.kiwibrowser.browser from the looks of it.

Thanks in advance.
[Android Apps and Games] Tomatot-:
If you're rooted you have plenty of options including titanium backup, otherwise with adb you'll have some options to backup your app, Google it.
[Android Apps and Games] matrixisreal:
I would simply backup the app (&data) with oandbackup https://f-droid.org/app/dk.jens.backup

Titanium Backup is outdated and bloated
[Android Apps and Games] Tomatot-:
What makes you think that? It still works for 99% of usages
[Android Apps and Games] alantay11:
Is there an option to force desktop mode? The amp disabler is great but sometimes I can't get websites to stick to desktop mode when opening links in new tabs.

Also is there any way to speed up or change the long press animation which pulls up the open in new tab and other options?
[Android Apps and Games] █████:
unfortunality the App is deprecated. Development is over.
[Android Apps and Games] eliezerjk90:
Where did you get your information from? As far as I am aware there's no statement from the dev about that. Just because dev doesn't update it as often as you would like, doesn't mean he drops the support. Please don't make any baseless misleading statement! That's absolutely disrespectful.
[Android Apps and Games] Try it or die:
On Discord there are a lot of updates in the last days/weeks. An update for the play store should be coming really soon.
[Android Apps and Games] eliezerjk90:
Yes I did some search in the twitter and concluded that the developer is still active. Apparently that person I quoted before is bitter since the app is not updated as frequently as he would like (see his posts few pages back). It's totally disgusting to see someone spread lies just because he's bitter.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Good day,

A new release of Kiwi is here, you can now add and remove tiles/websites on the homepage.

Also, I completely removed analytics and Facebook SDK :highfive:

[+] Manage tiles on the homepage

Long-press to move or delete the tiles.

Important, to remove the news, just click on the cross (it's not deep in Settings anymore).

[+] Added Finnish translation

[+] Uses less data

[+] TLSv1.3 (better security)

[+] Improved content filter

[+] Improved privacy: Removed metrics / analytics SDK (0 tracking!)

The next step is to deliver lot of fixes and extensions.

Available on XDA Labs, progressively on Play Store: https://labs.xda-developers.com/store/app/com.kiwibrowser.browser

Happy holidays to everyone!

Arnaud.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Yes, done
[Android Apps and Games] Renz1er:
Kudos for the new release. Been using your browser for sometime and really love it. But, the new tiles are a bit too big. They make some images/icons look ugly due to that. Can we get something similar to the new chrome homepage, but has the add/remove option and the reset one.

I have uploaded an image of how it could've looked. hope you will look into it.
[Android Apps and Games] iFlasher:
Thanks for the update, but I'm not really fan of the new ntp included. Is there any way to return to the old version of the ntp?
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Tell me what you don't like, so I can improve it (here or on Discord) ;)

To see how was the previous NTP as a comparison, you can set the Homepage to chrome://newtab/ and press the Home button.

If really that's bothering I can add a feature yes, but I'd like to understand why so I can improve it:)
[Android Apps and Games] iFlasher:
Thing is (at least for me), the new ntp can't be themed with apps like Swift Installer (For example I have my browser themed in seablue, and before this last update the theme applied to the NTP too, it looked beautiful to me :P... Now it doesn't apply anymore to the new NTP and ends looking ugly everytime I open a new tab), and as the other user said the icons are too big and some looks ugly because of that.

I think an option to customize what link to open on new tab would be awesome, or an option to select the old ntp would be fine for those who like to theme.

Just don't take it bad, I always appreciate the work you're doing with this awesome browser.

Edit: I tested the chrome://newtab and yes, it's the old ntp... I'm using it as a workaround atm with the home page button, but the new ntp still opens when I select "open new tab" button.
[Android Apps and Games] CubaoX:
How to manage tiles?

My homepage after update is blank (like in screenshot).

Also Twitter doesn't work.
[Android Apps and Games] Draygon:
Hi arnaud, thanks for the great update.

What I also dislike is the new tab page (NSP).

Best for me would be to view my bookmarks on the new tab screen. Is this possible to add?
[Android Apps and Games] teostar:
Nice update. Is it possible to have an option to move the homepage tiles to the bottom half of the page.
[Android Apps and Games] Tomatot-:
Thank you, a very anticipated update. I'm very happy about you removing all trackers. That means a lot. You know you don't need trackers to get feedback from us anyway :). How is the full open source disclose going?

I only have two comments:

-You were testing at some point to have the menu icons at the bottom when the omnibar was at the bottom of the screen (forward, bookmark, downloads, etc.). I see it's still at the top. Are you not interested in this feature anymore?

-It is still impossible to set startpage or searchx as default search engine, it doesn't appear in settings. DDG works though.

(-Also, as already mentioned, would be good to moves tiled from NTP at the bottom of the screen. You know, big phones nowadays...)

Cheers.