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[Android Apps and Games] Aditya.Hind:
1: Can anyone tell me tat what is that checksums in the first lines of bookmarks file of kiwi's data ,is it some sha or md5 plz tell me because i have 9 bookmark files of chrom and i hav to merege it into 1.....

2: i hed moved some of my book marks on 3rd bookmark file into a folder named android inside chrom from mobile bookmarks ,plz tell that will those bookmarks can be bought back from just bookmark file....
[Android Apps and Games] romskii:
a good alternative to what? To Kiwi Browser itself?
[Android Apps and Games] 80s Baby:
The latter
[Android Apps and Games] treboR2Robert:
A public library
[Android Apps and Games] b.roid:
coconut browser
[Android Apps and Games] Pseudonym:
Wow it instantly turned into a spam thread
[Android Apps and Games] b.roid:
oh gawd were just having fun....relax ;)
[Android Apps and Games] treboR2Robert:
"Fun" is against the rules.

I see it more as passing time while we are bored waiting for an update.
[Android Apps and Games] KaaMyA:
A newer Kiwi Browser build.
[Android Apps and Games] CraKenDK:
Lastpass does support autofill, but can not be added as an extension. But I still miss sync of bookmarks and tabs, which I use a lot.

I use Yandex...until Kiwi can sync the above mentioned and install extensions ;)
[Android Apps and Games] romskii:
The only alternative is Naked Browser Pro in my opinion. [MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION] can you also adjust the icons like brave did it?
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Hi,

The upcoming version looks like this:

Material Design 2

Is it what you are referring to ?
[Android Apps and Games] romskii:
That's already nice :)

I mean like brave. Would be nice to have Kiwi own icons
[Android Apps and Games] zilexa:
Would it not be better to invest time in useful features and stability instead of icons that already clearly represent their function?

A way to keep passwords, bookmarks and history in a filesystem folder that one can keep in sync across (Android) devices using SyncThing or personal cloud solutions like NextCloud would be amazing.

You would not need integrate anything, just have the information (history, passwords, bookmarks) stored in a specific filesystem folder and watch it for changes. It's up to the user to choose his/her personal cloud/2-way sync service and configure it to sync that folder across devices.

Or, integrating support for Firefox sync and hosting your own ff sync server (no idea if this works): https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver

But that might be a bit too weird. Just shouting crazy ideas :)
[Android Apps and Games] 4Freedom:
I have problems when download file from google drive. Any ideas? For example download this https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kDBQq7FMIUThD-C1jWI2kjkF8hMYW7rl/view (it's youtube adaway).

But the same happpen with all google drive link.

The download dont start.
[Android Apps and Games] kvevand63:
I just tested this out of curiosity. Could not download the link you provided via Kiwi but was able to via another browser (ADM). It is YouTube Adaway but the file is corrupt. I was able to download from my own Drive account via Kiwi with no problem.

Edit - sorry, forgot to mention this. In chrome flags see this: #disallow-unsafe-http-downloads. Perhaps this flag disallowed your download. I am fairly certain that it did due to the fact that I feel that the file which should be an APK downloaded as a 49.3k file which I deleted. The flag is set to default.
[Android Apps and Games] g104:
Can you offer a black version of the settings as well? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] xmiseggs:
Better a new version now!!! ... would be magnificent :D
[Android Apps and Games] CraKenDK:
I have not setup Lastpass correctly. You are right Autofill works.

So if I should favor a feature, it should be sync of bookmarks :)

BTW: Kiwi is very god work :good: It is how Chrome should be, so :good: for a great work :)

Please still consider to make i open source, so e.g. I can contribute ;)
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Let's talk about it, I'm now working full time on Kiwi, and want to get feedback of the community on what to do next :)

https://discord.gg/XyMppQq
[Android Apps and Games] ainurrofiq:
Make Telegram group , hehe
[Android Apps and Games] chopoLet:
You mean like this?
[Android Apps and Games] nixie2121:
how did you get your settings menu dark? I have night mode on but settings are still light. thanks
[Android Apps and Games] ★Michaelo★:
Just use Substratum with swift dark/black theme
[Android Apps and Games] Emu:
OMG I just discovered Remove AMP! I LOVE Kiwi Browser!
[Android Apps and Games] onliner:
Hi.

I discovered a small inconsistency with the bottom toolbar.

When the bar is at the top, you can slide from top to bottom to open the list of open tabs, like this (you will see this).

But, when the bar is at the bottom, my instinctive reaction is to make the gesture of sliding from the bottom upwards (like this), the problem is that the gesture continues to work in the same way, from top to bottom, in the small space of the bar I must make the gesture, which is really uncomfortable (like this) to me.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Deal. It'll go in the next version (2 days approx)
[Android Apps and Games] goo.gle:
Loving the browser so far, a blessing for non rooted devices! Just wanted to know if there's any way to sync/backup bookmarks, saved passwords etc? Not talking about Google sync, as a standalone feature maybe?
[Android Apps and Games] Spaceboy60:
I'm getting an American news feed even though I'm from the UK. Any way to change this?
[Android Apps and Games] D4xel:
Hi there!

Does this browser work well also on an Android TV?

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] zilexa:
I didn't even know about this feature, it's a really good one. But when you have the toolbar at the bottom, wouldn't it interfere with normal page scrolling? Since most of the time you scroll with your thumb, upwards from the bottom part of your screen.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
I'd say no, I have tried it and it didn't disturb me (you can actually try it in a dev build)
[Android Apps and Games] b.roid:
search button is your friend ;)
[Android Apps and Games] joakimbo:
Are you talking about stable release or Dev build? I'm really curious to try!!
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
It's in the latest dev (from date today) and will go to stable +/- tomorrow
[Android Apps and Games] Aditya.Hind:
Can anyone tell me tat what is that checksums in the first lines of bookmarks file of kiwi's data ,is it some sha or md5 plz tell me because i have 9 bookmark files of chrom and i hav to merege it into 1.....

2: i hed moved some of my book marks on 3rd bookmark file into a folder named android inside chrom from mobile bookmarks ,plz tell that will those bookmarks can be bought back from just bookmark file....
[Android Apps and Games] KaaMyA:
+1 :good:
[Android Apps and Games] 80s Baby:
Where can I download the latest Dev versions?
[Android Apps and Games] andu86:
hi,

on this site https://www.unilever.ro/contact/contact-form/ is can't see captcha form. it's not visible in kiwi but is visible in chrome

Kiwi

Chrome
[Android Apps and Games] zilexa:
Disable the adblocker and try again.
[Android Apps and Games] andu86:
If I disable it, the captcha works. It works even if I enable it again, the captcha is still visible. Well this is strange...
[Android Apps and Games] seobel:
It will be better to keep the battery compared to the official chrome ?
[Android Apps and Games] onliner:
Kiwi Browser Github.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
I agree, I think that the UA should be the choice of the user.

Of course, I'd prefer that there would be 10M users :D (in that case I think the UA is not an issue), but I get what you mean.

If I can make a hack / checkbox somewhere I'll do it, but I can't guarantee when as I have lot of things to deliver.

I've been working all the evening playing with UA spoofing, so the timing was perfect.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
From Yandex, the functionality (in general) that I see very useful for reading is "Text zoom and auto-fit", this is really smart.

What do you miss mostly from Samsung or Yandex (from the reading mode) ?

I find reading mode difficult to navigate to other articles.
[Android Apps and Games] robotkoer:
chrome://flags would make sense, it is not something a lot of people would want.
[Android Apps and Games] romskii:
Yeah I agree, that function is really great from Yandex.

I'm just comparing with the Google one from the flags, it shows not perfectly the whole article in the reading mode. Ah wait or you should look into the one from Chromer Browser Add-on. That one is perfect.

Hope that app keeps the smoothness, not like FOSS browser. It became so slow for me after some updates. That's why I searched for another one
[Android Apps and Games] patrickdrd:
an import function would be necessary too,

in order to import bookmarks at least,

e.g. from chrome, firefox, etc
[Android Apps and Games] LiLCruz:
Yes still getting it don't know maybe add option disable most visited sites I never liked it on home page or instead add sites to home page instead most visited would be better imo instead having random sites on homepage.

Edit:I think only happens when adguard is enabled in kiwi need another person to test.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
I've checked Lynket (the new name of Chromer), the developer (Arun) is really skilled and did everything really well.

Thanks for sharing, I like that he did AMOLED black and dark theme.

I will continue to look more reading apps and try to be inspired for the upcoming updates.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Speed-dial will likely solve this case. Should be around 15th of June, depending how much I sleep because I am fully revamping the home page and I am still late with my current release.

I'm thinking to open-source that part very quickly, to allow anyone to tune it.

At the moment to define the tiles, it's using "smart" detection, which is just a score of how many times you have interacted with a website, plus if you bookmarked it, downloaded offline, etc.

If you are curious, you can see the scores in chrome://ntp-tiles-internals but I agree it's not so good and that a basic MOST VISITED list may work.

One note: in the Settings you can set your own homepage.

about:blank is a valid page if you want to see nothing.

Let me know about the AdGuard + YouTube case, it's always though to reproduce/capture these things in the wild.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
It's coming ;)
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
FOSS Browser was based on top of Android WebView which made it dependent on Android system updates, and Chrome changes.

I prefer to sacrifice rarely used features (example: Proximity Beacon API) to favor speed whenever possible.

With Kiwi, I can control the whole stack, from the UI to the rendering engine. But of course, it's lot of work.

I'm sure I'll fail someday and it will regress. This doesn't necessarily mean it's my fault if it starts to lag, but it's my responsibility to find a solution and make sure that performance stays decent ;)

Generally if the CPU is not used 100% then things go pretty well.
[Android Apps and Games] b.roid:
anyway to get swipe back a page gesture?

I can't believe chrome got rid of that. such a handy gesture.
[Android Apps and Games] abacate123:
Hi [MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION], great work with this browser.

But I was wondering, why the play store page says that this app "Contains Ads"? As you can see below:

This doesn't really make a lot of sense for me, since the app itself claims to have an in-built adblocker and stuff.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Hi,

Thanks a lot for the compliment.

No, there are no ads.

My logic is the following: "yes, web pages contains ads, my app shows web pages, so my app shows ads"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hsv.freeadblockerbrowser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=adblock.browser.lightning

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=adblocker.lite.browser

That's it.
[Android Apps and Games] romskii:
Can you add the redirection to the play store app while clicking on such a playstore link? Currently I'm getting redirected to the web page
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
I will add a setting (this is intended behaviour actually, as the context switch is usually disturbing).

For now the best way to do this is to leave the finger on the link and press "Open in external application".
[Android Apps and Games] abacate123:
Thanks for the answer, but this does not answer me very well, just let's check other chromium based browsers, like: Chrome itself, Brave, Ecosia, Samsung Internet, Microsoft Edge and others, none of these has the "Contains Ads" in their respective play store pages, and they also show web pages containing ads, but let's take a look at other browsers that do contain ads, like Opera, Yandex, and others (remember that I'm only talking about chromium based browsers here).

This whole misunderstanding would be solved if your code were open source so I could check.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Wow, I think you are actually right. I have removed that label on the Play Store and I am waiting for Google's approval. :highfive:

I didn't know that the ad blockers I've showed you actually contained/added ads (and/or pro version), this is infuriating.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
The browser is a bit more popular than I expected, so I may have to open-source because I have limited time to develop everything. It's really really more work than I anticipated and I'll continue to support the development as much as possible.

From the outside it may look like nothing but I truly take all the pieces of free time that I have. For example, to improve night mode (changes coming soon, in particular for AMOLED) I was even reading code about GPU shaders while at the zoo :eek:
[Android Apps and Games] prathu30:
All your work is appreciated man. Truly appreciate :D
[Android Apps and Games] abacate123:
Sure, nice to see you removed that "contains ads" thingy, appreciated. I also noticed that Chrome's pull-to-refresh function is not present, is this intended or will be added later with the other stuff you're working on? Not a big deal though. Thanks again, in advance.
[Android Apps and Games] jerryn70:
BTW what is Progressively open source ?
[Android Apps and Games] onliner:
The patches over Chromium will be pushed slowly.
[Android Apps and Games] Karthickdj:
thanks
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
Installed Discord, click invite link and goes to PS page even tho already installed so no idea how to join group.

Telegram so much more convenient with probably more users. [MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION] I did ask awhile back if would be possible to disable the messages that appear on homepage after downloading stuff etc. if could be disabled, is it possible?
[Android Apps and Games] g104:
Where's the new update availability?
[Android Apps and Games] neo2106:
Maybe Playstore like every version?
[Android Apps and Games] joakimbo:
No update yet. He said one day some days ago.. Wondering the same.
[Android Apps and Games] Try it or die:
Just wait, he's working on it.
[Android Apps and Games] joakimbo:
Yes, I know. But it's been almost 3 months since any update at all. Just eager to get the bugs sorted out.
[Android Apps and Games] BonnyBedlamBoy:
it's a pity that developer build cannot be installed over official release as an update.
[Android Apps and Games] durax:
Well, I've done exactly that. Downloaded the Github Dev Version, it asked me whether I want to update the app and after hitting confirm it updated flawlessly.
[Android Apps and Games] █████:
no. You can't update the Playstore Version with a dev Version. I think I will change to Chrome until an updated Version comes out
[Android Apps and Games] PigeonDragonFly:
Brave browser is another great option.

I'd prefer Brave browser over crappy Chrome any day if I were in your place. The ad-block works incredibly well on the browser.
[Android Apps and Games] joakimbo:
Yeah, I'm starting to doubt the update schedule. It's been almost three months without any updates.
[Android Apps and Games] chabula:
It seems that Kiwi has a problem with the page

https://ovzoeker.nl

In brave the map is visible so i ask the site for the times of my transport (live)

In Kiwi the map isn't visable and therefore the page is then not working
[Android Apps and Games] Try it or die:
Uncheck "hide annoying ads".
[Android Apps and Games] mindtrappergr:
Any chance you can make dark mode behave a bit more like in Samsung browser? Here is a comparison between Kiwi 100% and Samsung. Kiwi has paler font color and 101% just makes the font color white and destroys all other colors in the page. So 100.5% would be great, I think.

https://imgur.com/a/fI3r2iG
[Android Apps and Games] b.roid:
:crying:
[Android Apps and Games] zilexa:
I think it's already a known issue the current adblocking mechanism has issues hiding the whole site or specific content.

I tested and it is due to the cookie popup blocker: instead of auto accepting the cookie message, the message is not being accepted but stays hidden. Therefore the (3rd party content like the map) content cannot load.

I believe the developer is already aware of this specific behaviour as it happens on a lot of sites with the GDPR/data/cookie policy popups. Hopefully it will be fixed in the new build.

Note: it also happens in Firefox for Android with the "I don't care about cookies" addon enabled. Disable the addon and the map loads.

I would suggest to split the GDPR auto accept functionality from the ad/coinmine blocker. Then add a way to easily whitelist sites for the cookie blocker.
[Android Apps and Games] Try it or die:
+1
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Hi,

A new version of the browser is available (release name: Tangerine).

Next release will arrive around 15th Oct.

- Fix: Bottom toolbar could get stuck in the middle of the screen

- Feature: Import and Export Bookmarks from a file

- Feature: Swipe-up on the toolbar to show Tab Selector

- Feature: Long-press on Back button to view history

- Feature: At the bottom of Accessibility preferences, you can enable/disable the simplified Tab Switcher

+ Cosmetic fixes

It's progressively getting rolled out on the Play Store and already available on XDA Labs.

I have included a potential fix for Google Now as well, but I'm not 100% sure it works, so if it solves your issue (or not), let me know :o)

Thanks to everyone! You can join the Kiwi Dev community on Discord application: https://discordapp.com/invite/XyMppQq (hold and press "Open with external app").

Enjoy the day!

More to come,

Arnaud.
[Android Apps and Games] kvevand63:
Thank you!! In my opinion Kiwi is the BEST browser. Question; can this release be installed over the recent Dev version?

Edit - Nope, had to uninstall Dev version to install the stable. But thats ok, you worked hard on developing Kiwi and I more than appreciate it! BTW, thank you for bookmarks import/export.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Tomorrow, I can give a new dev build ;)

Thank you for the kind words.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Just to clarify, you prefer the second screenshot but with lighter text so it would be more readable. Is this correct?
[Android Apps and Games] Yanghbr:
Im getting sd card missing when downloading
[Android Apps and Games] matrixisreal:
is a 64bit version planned ? I have an OP3 with 6GB ram, and I want that the browser can use it to improve performance.

But overall I do very like you work. Thank you
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
Thanks for new release, but for me import bookmarks not working. I select file but toast message says no bookmarks imported!
[Android Apps and Games] kvevand63:
I believe that you can only import bookmarks that you have created with this new update of Kiwi. I tested it earlier by creating a couple of bookmarks then exporting them, deleting the newly created bookmarks and then importing them back to Kiwi. Worked perfectly. This will come in very handy if you are inclined to install Kiwi Dev builds. You will find the exported file in Kiwi download folder.

---------- Post added at 05:19 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:11 AM ----------

Do you have an external sd card installed in your device? If not, make sure to toggle/select download location in Kiwi settings to Downloads.
[Android Apps and Games] 80s Baby:
+1 would love the 64 bit version as well
[Android Apps and Games] xmiseggs:
[MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION]

Identify the versions if they are for x86 or for ARM in GitHub.

In Google Play I can only download Kiwi Browser for bq Aquaris M5 but I do not have the download available for OnePlus 5T.

Kiwi browser is very good to identify the version with fruit name but in GitHub in the versions section if the version is not a number and you put a word as version name does not appear first in the list of versions, GitHub applies descending order.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Got it, I'll tag dev releases with date and time starting from now.

The X86 release is coming on the Play Store, the time for the update to propagate
[Android Apps and Games] chabula:
Kiwi indeed a fast browser.

But now I see the second problem ,

The first one is solved with help of a member.

In the webbased Facebook page I can click on a link to an article pensioenpro.nl then a new screen will be open but this stay white and as address i read

https://pensioenpro.nl/cookywal?target

what to do to get the page to read
[Android Apps and Games] mindtrappergr:
Yes, second screenshot colors but with text like in the first screenshot. Maybe it's a brightness issue and not contrast?
[Android Apps and Games] :
Can you add an option to copy to clipboard the content of publications and comments on mobile Facebook
[Android Apps and Games] kvevand63:
I just tested this with your provided link. Turn off Kiwi adblocker and allow third party cookies then try again. Page came up no problem.
[Android Apps and Games] Emu:
Can we please have copy image url back? I know Chrome got rid off it and it's driving me crazy that I have to open an image in a new tab then copy the url in the omnibox because sometimes when you open an image or a gif you get taken to an entirely different web page or the gif is shown as mp4 instead. Copy image url would be invaluable.
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
Have a strange problem only sometimes when trying to edit my searches. The text will not delete, just now tried to add another word to search and it deleted what was already written. Never happened with my other browser but has with kiwi previous and new release. Using gboard keyboard
[Android Apps and Games] myculito:
Just wanted to say this update is running great on my Pixel 2. It's my daily driver now...pushing Samsung Internet browser to the side for now. Great job [MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION]
[Android Apps and Games] Ryano89:
Officially my full time browser. Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] The.Night.King:
[MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION], the Google Play version has GMS dependency and 4 Facebook trackers.

Is the XDA labs version devoid of these?
[Android Apps and Games] treboR2Robert:
I take it this is bad ? Facebook is usually bad.

I don't use facebook so would this affect me ?

Whats a GMS dependency ?
[Android Apps and Games] Ayman ae:
I said this before and everyone started laughing at me.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
GMS means that it uses Google librairies but it doesn't mean much.

Next week I will make a version without Facebook SDK.