yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
07-14 21:55:54.505 19429 19429 E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main

07-14 21:55:54.505 19429 19429 E AndroidRuntime: Process: com.kiwibrowser.browser, PID: 19429

07-14 21:55:54.505 19429 19429 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'android.view.View android.view.View.findViewById(int)' on a null object reference

07-14 21:55:54.505 19429 19429 E AndroidRuntime:	at org.chromium.chrome.browser.WarmupManager.initializeViewHierarchy(WarmupManager.java:138)

07-14 21:55:54.505 19429 19429 E AndroidRuntime:	at org.chromium.chrome.browser.customtabs.CustomTabsConnection.lambda$warmupInternal$2$CustomTabsConnection(CustomTabsConnection.java:438)

07-14 21:55:54.505 19429 19429 E AndroidRuntime:	at org.chromium.chrome.browser.customtabs.CustomTabsConnection$$Lambda$2.run(Unknown Source:2)

07-14 21:55:54.505 19429 19429 E AndroidRuntime:	at org.chromium.chrome.browser.init.ChainedTasks$1.run(ChainedTasks.java:28)

07-14 21:55:54.505 19429 19429 E AndroidRuntime:	at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:790)

07-14 21:55:54.505 19429 19429 E AndroidRuntime:	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)

07-14 21:55:54.505 19429 19429 E AndroidRuntime:	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)

07-14 21:55:54.505 19429 19429 E AndroidRuntime:	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6753)

07-14 21:55:54.505 19429 19429 E AndroidRuntime:	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)

07-14 21:55:54.505 19429 19429 E AndroidRuntime:	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:482)

07-14 21:55:54.505 19429 19429 E AndroidRuntime:	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:807)

Found it !
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Ok I am testing and deploying a new version (called "Orange")

I found the cause of the crash of the browser (at least I think).

It's not that I don't test, in fact I have tested 4 times on 60 devices+, never caught any crash, and still don't have the issue on my 2 devices.

This is why feedback from this forum is super important to me.

The current release was supposed to fix the issue of the crash with WebView/Custom tabs, but it doesn't as you can see.

The difference is that it crashes loudly.

Kiwi crashes in the background because the browser cannot find the main toolbar when apps like Gmail and Twitter are warming up the browser.

The mistake I did was that I wrote mainView instead of mMainView.

Thanks again to everyone who reported. I should be able to push the update very soon and will look into other suggestions and issues.
[Android Apps and Games] killoid:
i see you have found the cause of crashing. but still i will give you a logcat. browser was continuously crashing whenever i opened this app. & also the issue where a duplicate bottom bar appears when i dismiss the keyboard isn't solved yet. new ss attached.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Yes perfect, thank you very much for the logcat.

Can you try the new version "Orange" if possible? It's the issue that it should resolve

I know for the bar, fix coming soon ;)
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Hello,

A new release is available: Version Papaya (July 14, 2018)

This release is the same release as version Macadamia + a fix for the background crash + a rare fix in Orange.
[Android Apps and Games] Cryte-k:
thanks for the app.. Can you implement the tabbed navigation as the dolphin has it? one tab next to another.
[Android Apps and Games] qiaamei:
test
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
yes, there is even a almost working prototype, if you like want to try it before everyone, I can prepare one release for you, but I don't want to deploy it broadly yet, because it's a big UI change = big risk of crash ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Necronzero:
Whenever i open Slack it says the browser crashed, if i stay with slack open it keeps saying it crashed.

Moto X⁴ on Android 8.0.0 with june security patches.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Are you running version Macadamia or version Orange ?

I should have fixed the crash you mention, in version Orange (normally!).
[Android Apps and Games] killoid:
tried the new version & the crashing issue is fixed! thanks for your relentless works! i will wait for your next amazing update.
[Android Apps and Games] Cryte-k:
if I would like to try it. thanks
[Android Apps and Games] BigBrosMo:
Ok, so the video on this news website won't play at all. Here's a sample story... The first video won't play:

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4732934

Also, zoom refresh doesn't work properly, ie. If you go to this page, then pinch to zoom, the map should update itself with the pins redistributed/scaled accordingly. It doesn't do it. Works fine on Chrome etc:

https://goo.gl/EkH7PP
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Oh I remember, you (or at least another user of CBC.ca website) have showed it to me few days ago ;)

I was working on it yesterday.

Thanks a lot for sharing the map example :o

I'll come back to you once it is solved
[Android Apps and Games] yeezusv2:
This is a really good browser but what I have noticed is on websites that have a black background, the night mode reduces the visibility of the site. I personally have the night mode on all the time. One idea I would suggest is having an AMOLED mode for AMOLED devices and increasing the visibility so its full white and black combination. Otherwise, the speed of the actual browser is great. Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Setting the contrast 101% does a bit what you describe.

Is it helping ?
[Android Apps and Games] yeezusv2:
Yes, I tried that but that makes it even harder to see. I like the default setting of 99% but some websites with dark themes don't really work well with it.
[Android Apps and Games] Reynald0:
If domain kiwibrowser.com is blocked, browser can't open any pages,

someone could reproduce?

Is there a specific adblocking reason for this?

Thanks

Step to reproduce:

1) Using a wildcard blocking rule such any.kiwibrowser.com at DNS level, will result in being unable to navigate any site at all;

2) Cannot reproduce in old version, only in latest build.
[Android Apps and Games] andriy_:
With the latest release I have permanent "Kiwi has stopped" exceptions (Sams S8, RICE135, NX kernel) while kiwi is inactive. Reverted the update.
[Android Apps and Games] robotkoer:
Sounds interesting. So it is a new UI instead of just using the tablet mode in mobile?

If you need some inspiration, Peregrine Browser handles tabs well: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marc.browse
[Android Apps and Games] floesn:
Good browser for me so far. But has anyone else problems with the view of some websites? For example I can't accept the cookies on www.wimbledon.com :(

I made Screenshots to show the difference between chrome and Kiwi.

Edit: it is the hide annoying ads feature that hides the cookie buttons.
[Android Apps and Games] BigBrosMo:
I also noticed another glitch... On this page:

https://www.rew.ca/properties/R2288...rch_id=sechelt-bc&search_type=property_browse

The pictures of the property don't show up if "Hide annoying ads" is checked. Those pictures aren't ads. Not sure if that's an ad filter thing or something else.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Which version do you have ?

Do you still have the issue on the latest versions ? (Papaya or Orange)
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Mhh this is a bug, this shouldn't happen as you should be able to block everything.

What I suspect is that it is a slow init on your browser. Wait like 10 seconds after first launch and it should be fine.

Otherwise, if you can try to change the search engine to Google.com, that could solve it.

While the speed is better on that release, it looks like I still have lot to do here to make it more stable ;)

I'll continue to work today and tomorrow on it.
[Android Apps and Games] Sauronych:
Custom Tabs are super buggy in the last few builds with bottom navigation enabled:

the bottom bar is doubled, with one displaying over the other

there is an ampty top bar

custom tabs often crash outright
[Android Apps and Games] Abusayeed91:
Latest update from play store killed the app on x86 devices
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Understood. I'll fix it during the day (I'm looking for the cause, I think I figured out)
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
No, you were right, I investigated it this morning. It was the adblocker rules! :D

and yes, it is a regression, it was working before.

The trick is, the adblocker downloads from kiwibrowser.com the lists.

The problem is that, if the rules cannot be downloaded, then they can't be loaded into memory, because of that, it tries to read an empty memory space (null pointer), the renderer crashes --> page not loading or even trying to load.

So, new release Version Quenepa (July 15, 2018), which solves this case and another rare crash during background play.

I am going to release new version again very soon, in order to fix x86 and I still want to fix one of the crash which I cannot identify and then it will be 100% stable and fast.
[Android Apps and Games] andriy_:
Version 3477 works fine, the next one (current Google Play update) is buggy. I have no idea what is Papaya / Orange, they should be tasty :)
[Android Apps and Games] Reynald0:
Quenepa is good, DNS problem is fixed. :)
[Android Apps and Games] bejunk:
[MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION]

Awesome browser, switched completoy away from Chrome since few weeks and it's a pleasure to use your browser! Appreciate the updates!

Just 1 thing: Can you enable the swipe up gesture on bottom url to open ntp page? (you get this small pill above the url) Like it was in Google Home, before they killed it... Than It's a perfect browser!

Only sad thing Google killed 3rd party browser sync... But you cant do there much either, i understand. Still best browser. Recommended it to few, all are amazed :D

Peace.

Btw you can also send me the test apk with new layout, i would provide logs what crashed etc, and i know how to fix almost anything if something will get f#*ked up ^^

Have a nice day
[Android Apps and Games] 283fabio:
Password manager

A 3rd part password manager may be interesting
[Android Apps and Games] pavop02:
A couple of suggestions.

Hey man! This is really cool browser and I've already made it my primary browser! I've been looking for such a quick, stable, minimalist and beautiful browser for a very long time! But there is something to fix and improve.

1. On some sites the stock android clipboard's pop-up menu (where are buttons 'copy', 'paste', 'search') appears after minimisation of the browser. It happens even if there is no any text selected!

2. MIUI 9 (developer 8.4.26, android 6.0, cellphone Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 MTK version) can't make so called 'long screenshots' (this is hallmark of Xiaomi phones) in Kiwi browser.

3. If the toolbar is in upper part of the screen, it's inconvenient to open new tabs because of the remoteness of '+' button from the thumb of the right hand. It's almost impossible to reach it without help of the left hand :) .

4. If I stop playing a video in YouTube, the white circle with '||' (the pause icon) doesn't disappear what prevents the user from seeing what is behind the icon. Please, make the icon DISappear in for example 1 second after stop.

I hope you will notice it and it will help you to make this browser better! Thanks for such a good thing.
[Android Apps and Games] Avhill:
Hello,

I'm still using your browser and still think it's the best.

With night mode enabled, I noticed some issues (I set the contrast to 101%) :

- On Mastodon (mastodon.social), the website's background is originally dark blue, and becomes grey (see screenshots, one is the "normal" mode, the otherwise one is with the night mode enabled)

- On motorsports.com, the side menu is missing the "hamburger menu" icon and this menu is light grey (while black in "normal mode")

- On Twitter, if you enable Twitter's own night mode, the dark parts become grey. And if you pin the website as an app/shortcut on your launcher, the web app has a light grey status bar, even when Twitter's night mode is off and Kiwi's night mode is on.

These are not serious issues, they're esthetic ones (I solve it By using Bromite for these websites). If you can't (or don't want to) fix it, it's fine, I know you've got other priorities and a lot of requests singe the rise of popularité of this browser (congratulations for this by the way)

Sorry for this long post
[Android Apps and Games] Avhill:
It seems the other screenshot (the normal color of Mastodon) wasn't uploaded by the XDALabs app, here it is

EDIT : The top bar of XDA Developers Forum's website is light grey too

EDIT Bis : It seems that XDA won't ever upload the image. You should find screenshots of the mobile website by doing a quick search.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
x86 is now fixed, release Raspberry.
[Android Apps and Games] AndyGizzle:
Awesome browser! Thanks for taking the time to develop it. Latest version is blazing fast!

One thing though, on certain pages, such as the mobile Facebook page, the top menu bar (Facebook's menu, that is) seems to overlay the top of the content. Ie. the top of the content starts at the top of the menu bar and not at the bottom of the menu bar. Screenshot attached.
[Android Apps and Games] Jangoux:
When duplex is enabled, the lower bar sometimes appears at the middle lf the screen
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Very interesting, I don't have the issue so I suspect that there is a banner hidden like "Try Facebook Lite / Messenger for Android"

Do you see anything appearing there when you choose to untick Hide annoying ads ?
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Yes, it's in fact a bug that exists in the "real" Chrome Canary as well. I'll try to fix it during the week.
[Android Apps and Games] Jangoux:
No worries. Otherwise, the browser is great. Downloaded it today and so far, I am liking it a lot.

Another question: in the future, would it be possible to schedule the night mode to start and finish on pre determined hours?
[Android Apps and Games] AndyGizzle:
Thanks for getting back to me. I turned off Hide annoying ads, and it now looks correct, the content starts at the bottom of the menu bar. But there's nothing else appearing such as Lite app ad or anything. Seems like there's some kind of padding to move the content down that is filtered out along with other annoying stuff.
[Android Apps and Games] joakimbo:
Love this browser. Especially after latest update. Now trying it as my daily browser. I would prefer some animations when opening url search, opening tabs etc rather than the fast one now.. Don't know if ppl agree?
[Android Apps and Games] b.roid:
nope! lol :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] Edgarmufc:
Hi. At the moment all good with the browser, no problems have occurred. I'm just waiting for the option to choose between the Google translator and the Microsoft translator.
[Android Apps and Games] rsah710:
thanks

It is the nice browser thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] andriy_:
Now using 3440.40 (from Google Play, latest update availabke) with no issues... And I a bit confused with the versions... Is GP behind XDA Labs store?
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
GP has x86 edition which is more recent but otherwise they are perfectly in sync :)

You have the latest version.
[Android Apps and Games] ToreSalvo:
data usage compression will make this browser perfect!

And also GUI on down position, like opera mini ?
[Android Apps and Games] 80s Baby:
I'm still having the webview issue on the latest build :(
[Android Apps and Games] ebiel:
Hi arnaud42,

I very much enjoy your browser. Thank you for your efforts!

However, I experience one issue:

Adding startpage as a custom search engine does not work for me.

Also, I very much miss a feature that is essential the way I am using my browser:

- I would like to add the search field of any website and assign it to a shortcut (either a textual shortcut or a graphical one) so that I can enter a search query and directly start that search on a particular website (e.g. wikipedia, IMDb, ebay etc).

- Example Chrome Desktop: I can assign textual shortcuts so that I can just enter 'imdb kevin costner' in the URL bar and the search is carried out on the website IMDb by opening the URL https://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=kevin+costner.

- Example Firefox mobile: I can add any website as the target of a search query by just long-pressing into the search field of the website and choosing the option 'add search engine'. Icons of the websites that were added as search engines to the browser are shown when entering something in the URL bar. Instead of finalizing the input in the URL bar with the return key (thereby using the default search engine) I click on one of these icons so that a search is carried out on the respective website using the search term I just entered into the URL bar.

Let me know if you accept donations to support the development of feature requests ;)

Best

Ebiel
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Hello,

You maybe want to try the latest version, since it fixes lot of issues with x86 tablets (hopefully yours too! :) no guarantee)
[Android Apps and Games] nan43:
Hello,

I am a new user of the kiwi browser; The reason why I looking for a new browser is MIUI's default browser expand the advertisements.

In fact, I think kiwi can do some details better.

1. Although the homepage can be set, the new page cannot be changed to the same. I hope to add a switch.

2. Is there any way to import html bookmark formats so that kiwi can add bookmarks easily?

3. Now kiwi will automatically leave after closing the last page. Is it possible to add a switch so that the new page will be automatically added (and showing the homepage) after the current page is closed?

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
Very nice browser, I heard someone mention it elsewhere and thought I'd give it a go. Within a day its now my goto browser. I searched a little on bookmarks and see you have something planned. Just FYI I came from Tugabrowser which was CAF based Chrome unfortunately no longer updated due to CAF stopping development. But the Tuga dev added an import export bookmark feature which worked very well, saving them to internal (sd). As always clean installing custom ROMs I could just import my bookmarks in a instance.

Thanks for great browser and constant updates.
[Android Apps and Games] Mrxyzl:
Hello, just want to report a bug which the simplified pop up doesn't black themed in night mode (see screenshot)
[Android Apps and Games] protheusDK:
I am unable to pass recaptcha, the verify button is blocked. I tried to watch a video from powvideo

https://povw1deo.com/278rjwhm98xc

Can someone please confirm the issue.

The link must be copied and pasted, if not recaptcha doesn't appear.

I tried other websites with recaptcha but they seem to work.

This issue has been resolve with: Version Watermelon (October 23, 2018)
[Android Apps and Games] Infy_AsiX:
came to Kiwi for it's night mode. Could it be improved with solid distinct text colours like for example Samsung's night mode is able to offer?
[Android Apps and Games] xmiseggs:
Thank you, it's a very good browser, congratulations, continue with this good work.
[Android Apps and Games] b.roid:
thanks swift dark :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Looks like pretty nice addition :)
[Android Apps and Games] Angelos N.:
Very nice browser, but unfortunately I cannot make it work with my password manager (Dashlane), while it works fine with chrome.

I believe Chrome uses Open YOLO API ( https://github.com/openid/OpenYOLO-Android ) which I guess is not present in the kiwi. (source: https://blog.dashlane.com/dashlane-google-open-source-api/ )
[Android Apps and Games] Bigb12:
Can we get an option for clearing the browsing data when using the exit button.
[Android Apps and Games] dimikon:
The crash issue remains. For the time being I'm using a very similar to kiwi browser. Sorry I can't provide you with the necessary log
[Android Apps and Games] sedan206:
sometimes such an error occurs, the previous query is displayed on the screen

...
[Android Apps and Games] k500zm:
OK I'll answer my own question !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes it is possible to when in night mode make the menus invert colours also - including bookmarks and also make it pure white text on black all the time with using the new Kiwi Swift black Substratum theme :)
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
Hopefully not a silly question but is there a reason for tick icons on home screen shortcuts? IMO would look nicer without.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
This is when a page is available offline.

I am currently working on the new tab page redesign and will take that feedback into account :)

I will write here to gather opinion of everyone too.

===

I am a bit busy these coming days (actually coding), I am checking the messages here from time to time, so if I didn't answer to a previous request, do no worry I am checking them.
[Android Apps and Games] BigBrosMo:
I get this too. But it seems random and I can't figure out how to consistently replicate it to report it.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
I've caught it, I know how to reproduce.

Go to Google, click on the text field on top, then close the keyboard, and the bar will be stuck in the middle.

It's planned in my fixes ;)
[Android Apps and Games] AgustinH:
I love the last updates! A question, I want to use facebook from the browser, how can I do to receive the notifications? Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] painx:
This is what I want for a future version: right site bookmarks (just swipe right or left to see bookmarks or folders with bookmarks/Lighting browser feature), black menu, bookmarks import, remove articles for you from the default page.
[Android Apps and Games] Android450:
I seem to be getting this warning more often after the last update and I can feel my phone getting warm when using Kiwi. I have tried clearing its cache and data, also reinstalling it. None seem to help. Any advice?
[Android Apps and Games] Try it or die:
Two suggestions for your great browser^^

- an option to clear all browsing data after exit the browser.

- more bookmark tiles on the start page.
[Android Apps and Games] protheusDK:
I guess it depends on the device, my gt-i8190 works fine with kiwi, also maybe you were watching videos so that will warm your device.
[Android Apps and Games] Android450:
Thanks for your reply, no I don't tend to watch videos through the browser mostly reading news and browsing forums. Though it still creep up to the very top of the battery charts very early on as compared to before
[Android Apps and Games] b.roid:
there is no notifications in this browser.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Just trying it. How on god's earth do I import/sync my Chrome bookmark?

Other than that, I would stick to it.
[Android Apps and Games] b.roid:
not possible.

yet.
[Android Apps and Games] Bigb12:
If you are rooted you can copy the bookmarks, and bookmarks.bak files over into kiwi. That's what I did. Sync isn't possible though.
[Android Apps and Games] kryzeK:
Sorry for this question but... How to do?
[Android Apps and Games] AgustinH:
ohh thanks! Would be nice!

---------- Post added at 01:53 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:50 AM ----------

but it appears on the options of the browser, notifications
[Android Apps and Games] :
I also would like to know. Please inform on steps or web link.

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] Abusayeed91:
[MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION] there is a bug when watching video in fullscreen in sites like openload.co , if you toggle fullscreen multiple times, the whole device freezes,have to force reboot the device
[Android Apps and Games] Bingley:
Transferring from Brave is a pain as cookies/logins aren't shared or imported. Was there talk of this being worked ok? I have a password manager but ob Google hasn't made this work with browsers yet.
[Android Apps and Games] b.roid:
what are your thoughts on bookmark syncing?

this seems to be the biggest feature people ask for on brave and bromite.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
I will reproduce this, I will reply back.