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[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
You're right, and in fact, you are so right, that this is the very first thing I did (way before the adblocker was developed).

The pop-up blocker is much different from the one in Chrome :D There is no direct comparison on the Chrome or Firefox store in the way it technically works, but the result is close to Popup Blocker (strict).

The blocker tries to stay silent, unless there is explicit help needed from the user so it's easy to forget that it even runs.

When the blocker is really not sure what to do (ex: you click on a visible link on a page, but it looks like an ad), then it asks for user action (but it's very rare).

I was tempted to put a message "a pop-up has been blocked", but on some websites, there can be 3 or 4 or 5 pop-ups.

Every click, you would get a message, and that'd annoying to see "some annoyances have been removed".

As I said in the beginning, if you don't notice anything that's good.

Please challenge me if you think the blocker is not tuned properly (too many false positives, or too many false negatives) :o

By the way: if it does a mistake, a workaround is to keep a long press to open the contextual menu and pick "Open in a new tab".

The bottom bar is very much requested and it's in my short-term roadmap :laugh:
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
It's a must. If not syncing, at least import.

Importing/syncing with Android stock browser without root is doable. I have found a way.

Now the problem is with Chrome, where it doesn't work at all. Even more, Google doesn't want you to do that.

This is where I am so far:

I had a long discussion with an user, and one of the idea is to integrate support for EverSync.

EverSync is good, but it's a small commercial company and I wouldn't be comfortable so much with this idea (+ it's a freemium tool so user has to pay), and eventually nobody knows what they do with the data.

The same way that I feel better if my mailbox is managed by Google, than by a sysadmin friend running Postfix.

Maybe integrating Pocket is a better bet (it's managed by Mozilla) but I am not so familiar with their product yet :D

Another idea is for me to provide Sync servers and sync only bookmarks (no passwords, no history) but that still doesn't solve the case of importing from Chrome Mobile.

The best idea I've come up so far is to publish an utility on XDA that allows to extract bookmarks from the already installed browser.

If I can find a way to do it without root, this could benefit Brave, Bromite, Yandex and all other Chromium browsers :victory:

Now, there is a "if", I haven't tried my theory yet but I have a serious idea on how to do it.

This would be XDA-only though, as it would be banned from the Play Store anyway.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
be cautious though, I'm not sure it's doable, it might be.
[Android Apps and Games] romskii:
Bug: I'm not getting redirected to Google Play Store when hitting the Play Store button on apkmirror.

I found the top address bar more useful instead of the bottom bar. Maybe a floating thing would be useful like on Cake or the new Opera browser.
[Android Apps and Games] MiliWanili:
Hey, the thing with popup is that it blocks on most sites but some dodgy ones will still open new tab on it's own if you tap on any link. Can't wait for the address bar on the bottom, new tab button on top left drives me crazy lol :laugh:

Thanks for reply!
[Android Apps and Games] robotkoer:
I'd suggest doing a basic import-export feature that is compatible with desktop Chrome/Firefox. I think it is just HTML with a specific syntax

That would let users fairly easily sync with their desktop browser or batch manage mobile bookmarks.
[Android Apps and Games] Draygon:
Hello, thanks for this browser. It's my absolute favorite right now.

I have a few requests:

- Could you add more search engines? More importantly a custom search, where we can enter our own search engine

- Can you add an option to move the upper URL bar to the bottom?

- Can you add an option to disable the colored URL bar?

- One privacy focused feature would be to delete all cached data (cookies, etc.) when the browser gets closed

Thank you, keep up the great work!
[Android Apps and Games] romskii:
If you get the URL bar at the bottom, you can directly have the request closed with the coloured URL bar. It was the same on previous chrome versions.

The last point is a good todo
[Android Apps and Games] 4Freedom:
Does Kiwi browser contains ADS? Play store say yes, is it ok?

In google search results, there are ads too. It seems adblock is not working at least on my device.
[Android Apps and Games] Fireworkerfp:
Hi,

First thank you for the nice browser.

Can you explain why your browser gives a better privacy protection than brave?

And I think that 3rd party cookies should be disabled by default.

Greetings,

Fireworkerfp
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
No. There are no other ads that the ones the webmasters put on their website.

Is the adblock not working everywhere or it is for a specific case ?
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Glad you like it!

The main point of Brave is to sell ad tokens (BAT) based on user browsing history.

In their own words: "person’s focused mental engagement"

https://www.basicattentiontoken.org

This is too creepy for me. This is just my opinion. I may be wrong, I don't know them.

The EFF website has an excellent website to demonstrate the trackability:

https://panopticlick.eff.org

Kiwi is not perfect and will never be, but at least I don't sell any ad tokens or pretend to protect.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
That being said, for pure privacy the one I recommend is Bromite. Without doubts.
[Android Apps and Games] Fireworkerfp:
Thank you for the quick reply!

Yes thats how brave funds the browser. But it`s all opt in and it works local.

But I can still understand if that unsettles people.

I know the website from the EFF. This is one of the first pages I visit when I test an new browser. :)

Sry for the question but why is bromite even more private than your browser? Whats the difference?

Edit:

For the synchronisation of bookmarks I might have a hint. The Samsung Internet Browser can easily synchronize bookmarks with Firefox. After the installation you can create a Firefox account from your browser under Settings -> Account and log in to their sync. Afterwards the bookmarks are synced from the desktop FF. I don't know if this will do you much good.
[Android Apps and Games] Phantom Thief:
Oh nice to know there's more adblock browsers. Can we disable temporarily the adblock on this one? Also does the xda app provide auto updates or update checks for this browser too? Using bromite atm.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Wow I didn't know that Samsung Browser could sync with Firefox.

Thanks you very much for the tip :)

I removed all Google/sync and everything that sends data as much as I can.

In the process I even patched things that other browsers didn't.

Example:

https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/sr...llcheck+network&sq=package:chromium&g=0&l=108

Even if you don't do programming, the text is very explicit.

The only big difference otherwise, is that Kiwi includes Facebook Analytics which allows me to count number of active users and installs from Facebook.

Since Facebook Analytics is open-source, and I send only counters (you can't send anything else as far as I know), I assume it is safe.

At the same time, Brave, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, UCbrowser, Dolphin etc all do the same (Mixpanel, install reporting, etc).

A real private browser probably shouldn't execute JavaScript at all. Lynx or Links are the most private in the world if you see it like this :)

---> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(web_browser)

But then, you become *the* guy that uses this very rare browser, and this is a signature by itself.

My perspective is that browsers like Firefox offer a good privacy/functionality ratio and this is my reference.

In all case, I plan to add a checkbox to opt-in/opt-out from Facebook Analytics counters (I just need to code it).
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Yes you can add exception for a domain by using [Menu] -> [Hide annoying ads]

And you can disable everywhere in Settings -> Site settings.

Yes I publish on XDA labs the updates (a bit earlier than the Play Store).
[Android Apps and Games] Phantom Thief:
Didn't know you were in the play store. That's awesome I'll try your browser now!
[Android Apps and Games] Arslan140:
You need to install chrome 1st

Then sync your Bookmarks

Install Any Root File Manager(in my case its Mixplorer)

Going into Root And alow Root permission follow these steps

Go into data>data>com.android.chrome>app_chrome>Default

You find A file named Bookmarks just copy it And replace with kiwi browser Bookmark file

(Which founded in the same place data>data>kiwi browser>app_chrome>Default)

After that change Bookmark file permission to 600

Thats it.
[Android Apps and Games] MiliWanili:
The touch recognition bug is still there, sometimes it's difficult to browse the Web because of that.
[Android Apps and Games] protheusDK:
[MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION], is it possible to implement this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/universal-bypass/ on kiwi?, I have been testing it and works great. It's open source https://github.com/hell-sh/Universal-Bypass
[Android Apps and Games] SyntacticSyntax2018:
It seems that I can't get the Chrome Custom Tabs to work on my phone. It just opens directly on the app instead. I already made the browser the default one. I also have this weird bug that I have two Kiwi browser option on default apps.

And yeah that weird URL bar bug staying at the middle when keyboard closes and you need to scroll to the top to make it disappear.
[Android Apps and Games] 80s Baby:
Did you manage to fix this?
[Android Apps and Games] romskii:
It was duplex related. I've deactivated the flag and it works.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Hey bro, I can't change Bookmark file permission to 600

Using ES file explorer pro

It just has check boxes and no digit value

Halp
[Android Apps and Games] BigBrosMo:
I used Mixplorer and didn't change any permissions and it works fine.
[Android Apps and Games] :
No worries. All sorted but I had to restart the phone [emoji37][emoji106]
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
Using latest playstore version, not sure if your aware the translate feature is borked, layout is wrong. If I use google translate site, the page displays fine.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Hello.

What are the updates on the NTP you were working on?
[Android Apps and Games] sedan206:
The browser caches only 32-33 MB of information, you have such a problem?
[Android Apps and Games] Arslan140:
Mixplorer gives auto permission So it works fine for Mixplorer users.I only write change 600 Permission step for es file or other file managers

---------- Post added at 03:47 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:44 AM ----------

You need to check read and write boxes of owner Only

Other Boxes must be Uncheck or Download mixplorer from xda and its free
[Android Apps and Games] :
Mixplorer did the trick [emoji106][emoji16]
[Android Apps and Games] sundilsan:
Good work! But i still waiting for the speed dial. I hope u work on it too. :)
[Android Apps and Games] m2habert:
Request/suggestion [MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION] ,

¿Could the developer consider an automatic output of webpages history to a an easy accessible txt file? In that way the user could copy (or symlink) that file into DropBox and have instant no-thinking access to pages visited on the phone when using his/her desktop computer.

Doesn't even need to be the whole history, last 7 days would be all we need!

Not sure if "simple txt file" concept is wide spread throughout the android community, maybe throughout the XDA community, but it is a fairly simple and unintrusive solution to phone >< desktop syncing.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Cryte-k:
:confused: waiting to try .. thanks
[Android Apps and Games] sedan206:
Hi, arnaud42,I open many different sites, but the photo sites are not cached and constantly being download again, I have limited traffic, and I do not like that all sites are being downloaded again and not cached, the browser caches no more than 33 MB of information

sorry for bad english, I'm from russia,
[Android Apps and Games] Bigb12:
The files are located at root/data/data/com.android.chrome/app_chrome/Default

Paste the files into root/data/data/com.kiwibrowser.browser/app_chrome/Default
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
Would it be possible to have an option similar to disabling news on homepage to disable the swipe away notices you get on the homescreen for example after downloading something. I would post a SS but I just swiped them away lol
[Android Apps and Games] joakimbo:
Been using it for a while now as my main browser. Really impressed so far, but unfortunately need to switch back to brave because of certain issues.

1. Video streaming in some websites says this device is not supported

2. Fast, but laggy choppy animations (using a oneplus 6)

3. The bottom bar often takes time before it hides when scrolling

4. Often get notification that it drains battery even though I'm just browsing simple websites
[Android Apps and Games] beautifulsun:
Issue: can't change the default download path. Any help?

...and how is power consumption compared to standard chrome?
[Android Apps and Games] Bingley:
Any progress on this? I'm happy for this to not work, but only if the password manager autofil api is used as I have so many logins to transfer over it's a show stopper for me
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Yes I'm making very big progress on import/export in passwords/bookmarks at the moment. Expect to get some news soon :)

I will look into the autofill API if this is possible.
[Android Apps and Games] JoroBo:
Changing it works fine for me (through Settings/Downloads). Maybe an issue with the storage permission not granted to the app?

As to battery consumption, I don't have any hard data other than Accubattery reporting 2.4% drained by Kiwi for a total of around 40 minutes browsing this morning...Kiwi feels much better and lighter based on a gut feeling though :) Kiwi's dark mode and its Swift Black theme also help.
[Android Apps and Games] beautifulsun:
Another problem: Facebook doesn't open in mobile versione, even if "desktop mode" de-activated. Some other site doesn't show up at all (like http://www.ilgazeboaudiofilo.com).
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
I had a chat with Google lately, I think I can make it ;)

The translation quality is better with Google I agree.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Yes it's coming
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Thanks a lot, I think I found the cause, I am working on it ;)
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
I will add a checkbox for you, to unlock the storage space. ;)

Thanks for the idea.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Awesome!

Yes it's definitively doable. Love the idea, will be done :fingers-crossed:
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
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A little status update here

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I am working on a new version of the browser,

my priorities is to bring a better new tab page and interoperability functionalities.

When I mean interoperability, I mean it.

This means that I want to give to the user the possibility to import and export bookmarks & passwords freely

-> user should be the only one to decide what to do with *his* data :highfive:

Some early prototypes of the tab page looked like this:

let's see, #nosleep and it will work but I certainly need more than a few days ;)

In all case, it's moving forward :D

On the side, I am doing heavy lobbying to Google to get API keys so I can integrate Google Translate and some other surprises,

I don't know if that will work, let's cross fingers and I will call them every week until they say yes :)

Also, don't forget there are lot of little bug fixes / small features in progress, and that takes lot of time as well.
[Android Apps and Games] kryzeK:
It's lovely to see how enthusiastic you are with this project. Always adding features that are the most useful and essential in any browser, things that we never find all these features in just a browser.

Kiwi is the only browser that ever gave me the experience I have on my computer with Google Chrome and dozens of extensions installed. I thought I would never have something like that on my phone. This browser has all the best, always surprising me with things I thought was impossible on a chromium based. Or in a free app and open source <3

Sure Kiwi is in my top 5 of the indispensable apps on my devices and I just have to THANK YOU endlessly. Wonderful work, congratulations!
[Android Apps and Games] eliezerjk90:
Totally agree!! How he still only a "senior member" is beyond me... With this kind of support, he definitely deserves better rank...
[Android Apps and Games] :
Exactly. I've never seen such an awesome developer , who is this responsive and constantly getting feedback and improving his/her product. He deserves such praise. Unfortunately I won't be able to donate, I'm 15 lol
[Android Apps and Games] Edgarmufc:
I'm excited to know that ?. Google translation is important, I use it a lot.
[Android Apps and Games] b.roid:
what kind of excuse is that. use your parents credit card to donate :highfive:
[Android Apps and Games] :
Off-Topic -

If only it were easy. You know my mom and dad watch me like a hawk on my spendings and money habits ?
[Android Apps and Games] i8890321:
I have a suggestion in the UI

It's great to hear user can bring the address bar to the bottom.

But can u please rearrange the order of the items in the 3 dot menu.

After clicking the 3 dot menu button in the bottom, the menu pops up and the refresh button is on the top of the list (ie the top of my screen), the is far from my thumb can reach, that desgin violates the original idea of bringing the address bar to the bottom, which helps user 1 hand navigate/surf the web

Hope the developer notice that wierld design.
[Android Apps and Games] BigBrosMo:
I would like to see this suggestion implemented as well.
[Android Apps and Games] sedan206:
arnaud42, the grid of bookmarks I want more 5х5, because many people use a lot of bookmarks on the main screen,

I want to be able to rename the bookmarks on the main screen

I want the grid even more, but it's probably not beautiful for you
[Android Apps and Games] cudi90:
Hello,

how can I deactivate AdBlocker in my browser? I have a Rasberri Pi 3 with Pi-Hole and therefore I do not need the AdBlocker in Kiwi.

Does anyone know how to disable it?

Thanks for the help!
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Settings, Site settings, Ads, Allow
[Android Apps and Games] cudi90:
I already did that.

But advertising is still being blocked.

Just wants to disable it completely.
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
[MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION] I see you quoted a few suggestion posts, do you think this is feasible?

Sorry to quote my own post, not sure if you missed it!

Anyhow, looking forward to next release, deffo #1 browser :svetius:
[Android Apps and Games] :
Yeah ..i have the same issue..adblock isnt turned off. I had posted here.There was no reply.:rolleyes:
[Android Apps and Games] sonhy:
awesome project Browser mate,

any chance you could code a function/option, that auto saves all active tabs automatically and/or ondemand, and allows to restore previously saved lists of tabs?

Kind of like Habit browsers saves all settings and all active tabs.
[Android Apps and Games] Arctic Prodigy:
I tried to install from the play store, said I had the latest version....how can I tell, I know the version of chrome says 69.0.3440.40, but the latest version supposedly be 69.0.3477. I then downloaded and installed what was at the xda labs and it is the same old version, is this app updating or is it not updating the version history tag?
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Thanks, I updated the title to 3440 :)

There was too many bugs in 3477
[Android Apps and Games] Arctic Prodigy:
Okay, thought I was going nutz, thanks for clarifying.

But I have an issue on my lg v10, I have ads blocked and pop ups blocked media will not auto play but to play video I have it enabled to ask, when I do play a video this issue pops up.
[Android Apps and Games] JoroBo:
I like this suggestion too but I think it would be even better having a setting which allows us to rearrange the order of all items in the 3 dot menu. Don't know if it's possible but if so I believe a lot of people would like that.
[Android Apps and Games] Slipknotik86:
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[Android Apps and Games] Ryano89:
Love the app! I'm having a problem with this website https://whatculture.com. The homepage loads fine, but when selecting an article it often will not load properly, even if I turn off adblocking. Could someone try it out for me and see if you can replicate?
[Android Apps and Games] subrashi cat:
Great browser

Problem:

The download button won't take me to the download page

And the only server that can be downloaded from by long-press it is openload videos

I suggest an implemented video player like that in uc browser.
[Android Apps and Games] Arctic Prodigy:
I have a complaint about chrome/chromium in general and wonder if you can do something to make it better.

The complaint is that I have some tabs open in the browser, either I shut the browser app off or leave it open in the background.

Okay either hours later or the next day and I want to pick up where I left off, what bugs me is that chrome/chromium has to re-download that whole page again, it freezes the whole page and it uses up my data and sometimes I am on 2G and re-downloading a whole page in most cases takes forever....is their a fix for this so it will not have to re-download again?
[Android Apps and Games] protheusDK:
I would say that all browsers work like that. But you can save the web page with kiwi or use textise, bookmarks. I also use firefox with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/textise-it/
[Android Apps and Games] joakimbo:
Bug report:

1. sometimes videos overlays webpage. In this case I'm not able to remove the pop-up because video is blocking

2. Some pages just doesn't show. Blank white, see pictures below.

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[Android Apps and Games] joakimbo:
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[Android Apps and Games] Try it or die:
3 dots --> uncheck "hide annoying ads". Obviously the site doesn't like adblockers.
[Android Apps and Games] KaaMyA:
I've a little question about news on NTP.

Would be possible to force news to be shown, taking in mind geolocalisation, or following Google's account settings, or at least, choose which providers I want to take news from a list?

The reason is, if I'm in South America, I receive many news from Nicaragua, Mexico and U.S.A. (Center and North America) all about soccer or politics, but the most of them are useless for me.

Thanks in advance!
[Android Apps and Games] hananim:
I love this browser, it's so fast and the built adblock does a really good job when pair with dns based adblocker like Blokada.

My only request is if you can give us an option to restore the animation speed to sync with system's default. The current speed feels too fast, that it can be pretty jarring.

Thank you for your work!
[Android Apps and Games] Pidus:
Hello. Kiwi is fast becoming the best mobile browser. I am waiting for bookmark import/export.

I also use Firefox because of some interesting add-ons. Can you implement this add-on in Kiwi: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/bypasspaywalls It would be really helpful.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Yes, count on me for that addon :)
[Android Apps and Games] showofdeth6969:
Is there a way of transferring my Chrome bookmarks to Kiwi without doing it manually each one at a time? I have so many.
[Android Apps and Games] Portgas D. Ace:
https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=77151738&postcount=812
[Android Apps and Games] miklos08:
Great browser, but is there any way to login using my google profile? Would love syncing my favorites etc.
[Android Apps and Games] MiliWanili:
I've noticed some pages that doesn't work will only work when I turn off add block mode.