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[Android Apps and Games] imakul8:
Just installed F-droid and can not find Bromite. I've included additional repositories.
[Android Apps and Games] Hopie:
i still have this problem.
[Android Apps and Games] Hopie:
This Browser discontinued?

I have Bromite Browser.. but there's Problem with Download (No sdcard found)
[Android Apps and Games] Bingley:
A February release has been mentioned but it does look like development has slowed
[Android Apps and Games] x2k13:
I gave up on Kiwi since Firefox Preview with addon support came out the other day. Much more stable and pretty fast, too. Kiwi's update cycle is a bit too slow for my taste.
[Android Apps and Games] Bingley:
I'll start until the next update and see, otherwise I'll jump to Bromite if it's as fast. Shame really as I like Kiwi and have recommended it to many
[Android Apps and Games] marciozomb13:
Just move on, telling you gave up and use other apps won't speed up anything. Your decision is to use or not what's offered for free. Don't think developer will lose his sleep. Is not nice.
[Android Apps and Games] Emu:
Not giving up on one of the greatest browsers ever to come to Android. I love Kiwi but it's infuriating how Chromium-based browsers refresh your tabs after you haven't been on them for a while. Firefox Preview does not and as a result you don't lose the text you were typing up. I love Kiwi but I hate Chromium's RAM management.
[Android Apps and Games] Portgas D. Ace:
Most likely as soon as the update pops up in Play Store or Discord.
[Android Apps and Games] Adrian1983xda:
I also changed kiwi for Bromite. But it really doesn't work well on my phone. Bromite locks and causes jumps to slide through web pages. This experience is very ugly. My phone is a Mi9t pro.

Now I am testing Oh browser and it is surprising me.
[Android Apps and Games] mattgyver:
Light thread cleaning done.

Devs release on their times, when they can. They don't owe other users time frames or reasons for delays. Saying about using alternates is considered off-topic for the thread, and as such can be reported by others and acted on accordingly by moderators. Disrespecting a dev by hijacking their thread to push alternatives isn't tolerated, either.
[Android Apps and Games] Adrian1983xda:
Hi. I understand I apologize for my disrespectful comment.
[Android Apps and Games] fzoli990:
Agree with above opinion regarding other apps although I am also among those users who wanted to know more about Kiwi's situation. I have also exchanged a few emails with Arnaud but recently I haven't gotten any respond. Note that I am not looking for the reasons behind the delay or concerning anything personal but only an estimated time of releasing the new version. Or a confirmation if developing was already stopped.

Have a nice day to all
[Android Apps and Games] mattgyver:
.. and I understand that. However, until the developer releases a statement otherwise, asking other users is pointless. It's the same as asking for ETA, as they serve the same purpose. They're both spammy, with regards to the forum, though.
[Android Apps and Games] Bingley:
There are forks on github but I can't see any progress or builds. I wonder if someone could take over this project?
[Android Apps and Games] Davy49:
Hi,

I guess I'm like other users of the browser, I'm just trying to be patient and have a wait and see attitude.

David
[Android Apps and Games] Ajaja2008:
It's not possible. The project is not really open-source.
[Android Apps and Games] Aldione:
let me try this one, because im using brave but on my phone is a little bit slow
[Android Apps and Games] ghiki:
Lo hice con floccus como dije, si, es un addon de terceros pero en principio sincronizo a través de WebDav contra mi NAS (y lo tengo puesto en Firefox pc y Kiwi en el tlf, solo lo tengo configurado en LAN), no he encontrado un modo mejor. De todos modos si miras su GitHub tienes el código fuente y tiene licencia Mozilla

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As I said, I've done with "floccus" 3rd party addon to sync bookmarks between devices/browsers (FF in PC and Kiwi in phone). I've sync vía WebDav against my own NAS, and I only setted to sync in LAN (192.168.x.x), anyway It has Mozilla public license and It is open source.

[MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION] this addon is great, I think woul'd be a good Idea to use it's code (or part) to make integrated Sync tool or something similar in kiwi
[Android Apps and Games] wilpang:
Will we get 90hz support for Kiwi on other devices? I'm currently using the Oppo Reno Ace.
[Android Apps and Games] neonleon29:
I really like using this browser. Does anyone belong to the Kiwi Discord that can provide any information on whether the browser is currently being worked on? I read on Reddit that development has stopped. Hope this isn't true.
[Android Apps and Games] Bingley:
I read the same. Dev is active on reddit but not active on on the kiwi sub, and I've had no response from him. Apparently he's paused development to work on other projects but hasn't announced it. I suggest this thread be tagged as abandoned and closed until dev is active else we're just going to get more posts like this and mine.
[Android Apps and Games] gg2001:
I tried it today. Nice browser, BUT incredibly sluggish on old hardware (Moto G3 2015, Mm 6.01, squid kernel 23)

Last version of kiwi is so much faster and compact in comparison.
[Android Apps and Games] alagga:
That's exactly the thing!

We would use kiwi, but as it's abandoned, everybody is searching for an alternative to kiwi, so this isnt offtopic at all.

And thanks for the explanation [MENTION=7133601]xxxmadraxxx[/MENTION], seems I don't miss anything now in Yandex, it's a perfect alternative.
[Android Apps and Games] xxxmadraxxx:
To keep the [useful!] information about Yandex Browser accessible, I've extracted the relevant bits from this thread and put it into a new one. Please continue any discussion about Yandex Browser there:

Yandex Browser --The Best Android Browser You've [Probably] Never Heard Of
[Android Apps and Games] mattgyver:
Thread cleaned. Again. There's a certain level of topic that are allowable, bordering on the edge of off-topic. But when users start getting disrespectful to one another, that's when it starts getting out of hand.

Keep the posts on-topic, AND CIVIL.
[Android Apps and Games] xxxmadraxxx:
REMOVED --coz Mods have cleaned up the thread
[Android Apps and Games] Fresher8:
Seems rare for developers to come back to old projects these days.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
One (positive) announcement coming tonight
[Android Apps and Games] ashish1989:
But where is the latest download link of 2020-4-17
[Android Apps and Games] Youtube_Ll0r3nt3:
No puedo esperar!!

Aquí en España ya es de noche dilo porfavor!

Todos amamos tu proyecto

(I can't wait!!

Here in Spain it is already at night say it please!

We all love your project)
[Android Apps and Games] ashish1989:
Waiting
[Android Apps and Games] k500zm:
Wow arnaud is back at last ????

Hopefully with news of an update for his app ?
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Hi XDA community,

Every year, the tradition with Kiwi is to announce something big for its anniversary:

- 15 April 2018 - First Kiwi Browser release.

- 15 April 2019 - Kiwi Browser gets support for Chrome Extensions.

- Today, Kiwi Browser for Android is going full open-source, like Chromium or Mozilla Firefox.

Everything is released, including extensions code, no strings attached.

You are even allowed to integrate Kiwi in your commercial browser (yep, Microsoft Edge, Brave and Vivaldi are encouraged to use code) or create your own (if you have custom ROMs for example).

This project represents thousands of hours of work.

Pushing such code is absolutely important, it means that new browsers will be able to support extensions and add new functionalities by reusing the work done on Kiwi Browser. In the past weeks, I worked with other browsers to help them integrate Kiwi functionalities. Hope to see good news soon.

If you want to improve Kiwi, your changes will be reviewed actively on GitHub. If you want to create your own fork, feel free to do so.

My goal is to open new possibilities for anyone to mod their browser with absolute freedom.

Give back the power to the user.

The source-code is now available on GitHub and is now the reference for all future developments. It's in Java and C++. As Chromium build system can be sometimes complex to setup, all the dependencies are already included in the repository.

Feel free to share the news with the modding community and Android lovers around you.

Enjoy your day,

Arnaud.
[Android Apps and Games] elocnix:
Congratulations!

It really is a great news.

Now it's opensourced, please consider adding it to F-droid.

Godspeed!
[Android Apps and Games] Bingley:
Just to clarify, this means you are no longer developing this browser and no updates will be issued?
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
I'll keep doing some patches, but minimal changes otherwise as I tend to like how is Kiwi right now.

This means modders can do whatever they want without restriction and some well known browsers have shown very strong interest to iterate / improve the Kiwi work, which then I can reuse in Kiwi ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Bingley:
Ok thanks. I mean it's going to fragment the featureset over several browsers rather than Kiwi becoming better and better. So we either stick with Kiwi and stay on an ancient Chrome base and virutally no new features (which is fine, just fixes), or we jump to another browser with may have one or two features from Kiwi but not all. I appreciate the reply and patches forthcoming, it's just a shame to see it left this way as it is a great colelction of features & tweaks no other browser offers or will offer in full
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
There is going to be more fragmentation in the short term, but in the long-run users will benefit from this sharing. It's a way for me to be sure that the knowledge is kept ;)

At the end of the day, I don't mind which browsers provides functionality X or Y or Z, the more browsers offer it, the better.
[Android Apps and Games] Bingley:
I'm now undecided as to stick with Kiwi or hop to Firefox for the long run if nothing more will be done here. Are you going to rebase on the latest Chromium and address any git issues or just patch what you feel necessary? I don't much like using an outdated Chrome base, but having switched a number of people to Kiwi I'm not unsure whether to recommend Firefox going forward - Chrome or Firefox aren't going to implement special tweaks from Kiwi no matter how much people would love them to! I'll stik with it for a while and see if there's an update before 2021! Thanks for your time and replies!
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
GitHub yes, but for now I'm not really happy with the rebase version despite spending significant efforts on it (it performs poorly compared to the one that is live and feels like a regression to me)
[Android Apps and Games] Flasher8:
But the current kiwi got some issues with playback videos. It will hang if I left in background. Randomly happened.. is it better to look alternative browser instead ?
[Android Apps and Games] neonleon29:
This is great news! Just wanted to thank you for all the hard work you put into Kiwi Browser. I do have a question. For any updates to Kiwi Browser, will you need to manually download it from Github or will there still be updates through Google Play Store?
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Could be an issue with OS battery optimization ? You can come on Discord and people can help to troubleshoot, and if they can't find, it's worth opening an issue on GitHub and see if I can pick the issue and work on it (or someone else)
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Builds will be directly from GitHub source-code, to the Play Store

However, anyone can create their own variant / mod without approval nor review and they (mostly) can do whatever they want (as long as they don't call it Kiwi obviously, to not confuse people)
[Android Apps and Games] SnapTheRipper:
Hello there! Nice to see such an announcement from one of the best browsers around!

Will it be added to F-Droid? Since there are users like me who use Nanodroid packages and F-Droid as a main store instead of the traditional Google setup.

Thanks in advance! ?
[Android Apps and Games] jamescable:
Is the safe to sign into Google with?
[Android Apps and Games] Alashe:
Kiwi Browser is perfect for me right now. Im only worried about security patches. Thank you Arnaud for everything, good luck in your life. You deserve it.
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
Fair play to dev for making open source, at least there is a future for kiwi now. Like above post, as long as security is updated I'd be quite happy. The only issue I face at times is when browsing with kiwi is the touch reponse being off at times and having to scroll the page up and down to correctly select the link I'm touching. Hopefully maybe one of the fixes which will come in time. Thanks arnaud42
[Android Apps and Games] Timmmmaaahh!:
Thank you so much, Arnaud. That's an amazing gift to the community. I've been a fan of this browser for quite some time now as it's my absolute favourite for mobile. Cheers! :highfive:
[Android Apps and Games] k500zm:
Personally I agree with Arnaud - I like kiwi the way it is at the moment and I would be very happy for it to just be patched to keep it running so that sites all work without crashing. New features being integrated as the open-source is taken up by others and then improved and reintegrated into kiwi it sounds like a win-win for all and also provides longevity for kiwi which is the best browser ever - Arnaud you are the cool ?
[Android Apps and Games] Sand1p:
It is really hard to switch to another browser after using this feature rich browser.
[Android Apps and Games] imakul8:
Isn't it open source now? I'm sure some clever person will continue God's work.
[Android Apps and Games] Sander9847:
Is there any browser right now that managed to integrate chrome sync (bookmarks & password filling) and will also integrate the open source kiwi improvements?

That is the only thing I'm really missing.
[Android Apps and Games] Youtube_Ll0r3nt3:
And update app???
[Android Apps and Games] dene18:
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https://ibb.co/rdTG2dW

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arnaudx42

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2 days ago

It means I'm here to help doing fixes and maintenance and some updates, and progressively give freedom to validate changes to people I trust, and we see what happens.

My assumption, is that Kiwi is recognised enough for other browsers to pickup interesting functionalities.

Next store update is in about a week

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So I bought the cheapest Android phone that I could find. It was very, very slow. It was so slow to browse the web that I had to find a solution.

And so, Kiwi was born.

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Thansk million, perfect browser
[Android Apps and Games] monophon:
Is it possible to get the app working as assistant (only the android feature flag)?

I dont use any assistant apps like google or bixby - but firefox reports android (beside the browser role) as assistant too, so I was able to start firefox on bixby button or long homebutton press etc. on lineage...

... maybe there is an adb command to do that?!?
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Right now I'm trying to make the build environment as simple as possible (and running fully on GitHub, so everything free!), so anyone can normally just fork the repo, and do the changes they want, and after a couple of hours they will have the APK ready without having to install anything to their computer

(this is to help rom makers, etc, or just people who want to mod the browser, let's say to re-enable some interesting functionalities ;) )
[Android Apps and Games] Goku80:
Stupid question. If we was to use the current version is it safe enough do you guys think? Sorry if it sounds stupid
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
It doesn't seem to be affected by the latest security problem of Chrome, but there was another one in 2019, so we need to check that.

It's unlikely to have a real-world attack targeting only Kiwi users, but you can use Chromium a couple of days while we conduct all the code review

(personally I don't mind, but on the paper Chromium is safer with its last security patch)
[Android Apps and Games] ashish1989:
Any latest update of app, looking forward to it
[Android Apps and Games] alagga:
What do you want kiwi to do as Assistant? Just do web searches?

Then I'd suggest searchbarex, this can directly search via kiwi.
[Android Apps and Games] Goku80:
Thank you my friend
[Android Apps and Games] monophon:
Yes, just web searches. I came from firefox and this app can be set as assistant. I use Lineage for years now and its possible to start the assistant on every button on the phone on this rom. But its not possible to set a specific app (only an app - that masquerading as an assistant).
[Android Apps and Games] alagga:
Yeah try SearchbarEX you can use it as Assistant and even choose to open the search your preferred browser (no matter which) and different search engines.
[Android Apps and Games] FullWipe:
[MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION]

I have been using Kiwi for a long time and i'm very satisfied (many thanks for your hard work), however, the black diamond theme is not complete and conflicts with almost all substratum themes that exploit the dark Android system theme (especially on Android Q).

The text is black on white background in many dialog boxes ( both in the kiwi light theme and black theme) so when using dark/black substratum themes, the backgrounds become dark/black but the text remains black and unreadable.

Updating the dark Kiwi theme in accordance with Android system dark theme (as done by the substratum themes devs) would solve many compatibility problems with the most substratum themes.

I hope that changes will be made soon because to continue using Kiwi i will have to give up Substratum themes or i will have to give up using Kiwi and honestly i wouldn't want to do any of the 2 things.
[Android Apps and Games] Emu:
Pixel 4 XL

Android 10

I can't cut and paste text from other apps into text boxes on sites. Only into the address bar mysteriously. The clipboard permissions have become far more strict in Android 10 and I hope this will be addressed. Copy/Paste is an essential function.

I would like to join the choir of dark theme fans. If we switch to Black Diamond, it should set a flag to tell sites to switch to dark mode as well like in Firefox Preview. :good:

Glad Kiwi is back AND open source! Phew OP really came through.
[Android Apps and Games] amn1987:
Please consider updating Kiwi so that it can follow the system theme. That and a better Text Reflow.
[Android Apps and Games] geoslake:
Thanks so much for your hard work Arnaud! Kiwi is my browser of choice, and is absolutely unmatched imho.

Love the extension support (I Need yt background play for instance) and the overall speed and the perfect ui choices.

Adressbar at the bottom is perfect, so is night mode!!!

Well, except, as I told you long ago, ON TABLET, it still reverts back to day mode each time the browser is closed and restarted.

Thanks a million for open sourcing it, I've installed it on a lot of non-technical friends and they love it. Having to tell them to go back to chrome or another browser (for security reasons) would be very sad news.
[Android Apps and Games] lazostat:
Why kiwi has low rating on play store? 4.2 isn't considered high.
[Android Apps and Games] dene18:
Tampermonkey extension and userscripts play video background

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/371641-video-background-play-fix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_AxpGiOZ8c
[Android Apps and Games] bluemoonka:
Need help.

I can't find the option "Insecure origins treated as secure" in ://flags

I worked with website which is no SSL so i need to bypass it. Anyone has this solution would be appreciate, Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] koyo:
I'm happy Kiwi Browser is being updated again so I would like to bring an issue back to the forefront: Is it just me or do extensions not seem to work in incognito mode even if you enable them to run in incognito mode.
[Android Apps and Games] Soumy1234:
This is a known issue that has been reported (https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src/issues/36)
[Android Apps and Games] optionalmgrr.la:
Can you make bottom navigation bar option available for tablet mode too? thx!
[Android Apps and Games] hovnonium:
So its opensource and nothing happened. Haha n1.
[Android Apps and Games] suzukar:
The program crashes every time the browser switches to a landscape state.

OS: Android 10

Version:Quadea

通过我的 unknown 上的 Tapatalk发言
[Android Apps and Games] snazzman:
Greetings. I would like to congratulate you on an excellent product. I have tested many Android browsers over the years and I would have to say this is the best so far. It has so many excellent features and shortcuts and yet has a clean look and operates very fast. One of the few browsers to implement text reflow. The few Chrome extensions I use work very well also.

I would like to suggest a future feature that is security related. Would you please consider including a feature that automatically deletes private data on browser exit based on the delete data privacy settings. An example of this would be Lightning browser. I appreciate that an extension exists for this (Clean and Close) but less extensions means faster browser function. Apart from that, very happy with your product and I recommend it to all my friends.
[Android Apps and Games] Bradford1040:
Hey I am pretty sure there is a extension that clears from just browsing data to basically wiping everything. I don't remember the name of it, but used it myself a while back. But it is a good suggestion (from a user standpoint)
[Android Apps and Games] Bingley:
Which browser have people switched to? I love kiwi and there's nothing quite like it out there, but it's its not being updated what's the point?
[Android Apps and Games] Soumy1234:
Kiwi became open source around a month ago, so not only have people (including the dev) are working on updating it, but other browser devs are working on implementing kiwi features into their own browsers. A new kiwi update is indeed in the works, so you'll have to wait like the rest of us :p
[Android Apps and Games] gg2001:
For some years now, I'm using three browsers in my mobile (Moto G3 2015 2 gb, MM 6.01, squid kernel 23):

1-Firefox (last version): this for serious things (banking etc) and for syncing with desktop Firefox

2-Opera mini (old version, pre chinese acquisition): this for reading news, wiki or general browsing (mainly when the sites to visit are simple enough as to be compatible and when I don't mind being tracked by its chinese VPN). I've never found a better UI (I love its scrollbar) and faster browser for this usage (even Puffin is slow in comparison). Also I like its text reflow and general page re formatting done in the VPN, end result being a simpler, less data consuming, no ads, less distracting artifacts and generally easier to read page. I simply couldn't replace opera mini for general browsing

3-Kiwi (last version): this because it has no rival for playing Radiocut in background almost 24/7, using the less battery, and when I need a generally fast, compact and compatible browser (for browsing Reddit e.g.)

Also I tried Samsung browser. It's a really nice, quite fast, nice UI and constantly updated browser. Also love its scrollbar. But it's not as fast nor compact as kiwi, and sadly they abandoned Firefox sync in last versions.

For switching between this plethora of browsers :) I'm using Fliktu, and Searchbarex as my search widget
[Android Apps and Games] Bingley:
I know that, but for this instance of going open-source read abandoned. No chrome rebase, no one is going to implement kiwi features into edge or ff, so I'm wondering what people have turned to, that's all.
[Android Apps and Games] Drhedphuk:
Have you tried Bromite?
[Android Apps and Games] Bingley:
Of course. And I like the privacy mods etc. But compared to our beloved Kiwi it's sluggish and doesn't have thw tweaks which makes Kiwi Kiwi