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[Android Apps and Games] Mekrel:
I was using only the autofill through the autofill service, which I would prefer to only use seeing as this option works in both Chrome & Firefox on Android.

However, I did enable the other autofill option using the accessibility service but that's no working as expected. Allow me to explain:

After pressing the Enpass icon in the notification shade to autofill through the accessibility service, Enpass tells me there's no associated login details for Kiwi browser and prompts me to link something in my vault with Kiwi browser.

Essentially, the website's URL isn't being passed to Enpass through this method and obviously I don't want to associate one login with Kiwi.
[Android Apps and Games] protheusDK:
Kiwi Browser was removed from Google Play Store, the reason is attached. This was shared in Discord Chat from Arnaud.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
and this is the answer I've submitted to the Play Store team: https://i.imgur.com/vZkZTZE.png for now
[Android Apps and Games] RawSlugs:
[DELETED]
[Android Apps and Games] Bingley:
Good luck getting it back up, these take downs from Google are getting a little old now
[Android Apps and Games] antoniobarros:
I'm a fan of Kiwi Browser. If Google removed it from play store is not matter for me!?
[Android Apps and Games] Therazorsedge:
It's the Youtube thing man.

Yt make money from they services of background apps, so, when you offer the same free. They feel bad about yourself.

Anyway, good web browser when i had a amoled phone.
[Android Apps and Games] JohnWrick:
Why Kiwi browser is not available in PlayStore anymore? #rip

I hope it comes back in Play Store.
[Android Apps and Games] JohnWrick:
Does XDA Labs support "partial updates" of the app? Because if it does, then I will install it(xda labs) for sake of Kiwi.

But also i want it to come back on play store.
[Android Apps and Games] Zezahn:
I d/l this app a few weeks ago but uninstalled and was going to try it again later but it's gone now not even in archive area
[Android Apps and Games] :
You do not need XDA labs for Kiwi. Just join discord group to download unreleased/experimental versions of Kiwi
[Android Apps and Games] JohnWrick:
I think, let say if kiwi browser is not going to be allowed in Playstore, then kiwi should bring in-app update mechanism.

I would be a great concept like how xdalabs do to update itself.

Instead of completely relaying in Discord, Xdalabs, etc.
[Android Apps and Games] irongloves:
To the DEV, please keep the project on even in alternative app stores (xda labs, apk mirror, apk pure, f-droid). Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] joakimbo:
Hi!

Is there any way to make kiwi browser use a third party download manager? I have one installed, but I would like that a download opens in the manager instead of downloading via browser..
[Android Apps and Games] protheusDK:
try sharing the link with download manager, currently your suggestion is not supported but is in a to do list
[Android Apps and Games] internetaddict24:
The Discord group has all the latest versions and news. :)
[Android Apps and Games] cRaWnEr:
Me too
[Android Apps and Games] Ashish Rana AR:
Kiwi browser removed from google play store. ???
[Android Apps and Games] Shadow Death:
**** them I'll install it from here.
[Android Apps and Games] ketsumashu:
Hello,

I'm using kiwi on a tablet, and UI doesn't seem to use original chrome's modern UI.

Is There any plan for UI improvements on tablets?

Sorry for my bad english.:crying:
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Hi,

A new version is available. It's interesting mostly for extensions users.

If you are a heavy YouTube user, you may like some alternative software on XDA, and if you are a very tech guy, you may be able to mod the browser but I won't (can't) provide any support for that.

Version Pollux (May 8, 2019)

The bad news: Background play is now disabled on YouTube (request of Google).

XDA users are smart and may find better software for this in these forums and the most technical may even find way to mod the browser but I won't provide any support or help for this.

The good news:

- This version has better performance

- New content filters

- Better extensions support

- Introduces a Diamond Black theme and the homepage is compatible with Dark Reader.
[Android Apps and Games] Dj Kavas:
#Kiwi_is_Back

?BROWSER IS BACK TO PLAY STORE

Thanks Dev.?
[Android Apps and Games] ScOULaris:
Glad to see it back on the store!

Installing the new update now.
[Android Apps and Games] alagga:
For Themes I'd love to get:

- Material Dark Theme (looks smoother than this deep black)

- Dark Theme, where Websites can change the toolbar color

- Dark Homepage for the dark theme

Greets
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Well noted

Chrome Dark is planned.

Colorful Dark I'd love it, I started implementing it and then got distracted :cyclops:

There is some work on the homepage this week that will start, I'll check if we can do background color/image but it's quite low in the list
[Android Apps and Games] ScOULaris:
Material dark theme that still allows for websites to change the toolbar color would be delightful.
[Android Apps and Games] Shadow Death:
So they made you pull background playback huh? I wonder why they didn't go after Brave... Well either way I don't use browsers for that. I use a project that might or might not exist here on xda. Well I'll reinstall your playstore version because I figure it's probably better to support you there. :)

Edit: Oh..... I see what happened.... Well... That's what Google is for.
[Android Apps and Games] Grander0:
I have a Swift Installer theme installed for Kiwi and when I changed the home page to chrome://newtab, it's always set to dark. By default without changing the home page it's always white. Might be worth looking into?
[Android Apps and Games] alagga:
You're right, when using the Diamond Black option the chrome://newtab page gets dark (but it's the olddated newtab-page)
[Android Apps and Games] suppossess:
Hey, the new update motivated me to port a background video playback extension from firefox store, you can get it here: mediafire.com/file/wcq716hksmkozf1/yt-bg.zip/file

You can find better version on next page
[Android Apps and Games] letmedanz:
This is awesome.

Thank you very much for your work on this browser.

It is perfect for my use.

One 'glitch' I've noticed in the past few days is with RoboForm password manager. It seems to recognise a site incorrectly.

For example Salesforce login gets recognised as Google login.

The same pages work fine on chrome/chromium.

Is this anything that can be looked into?

Absolutely not a deal breaker, just curious.

Thank you again
[Android Apps and Games] Ascii3:
I find Kiwi Browser to almost be the generally the best choice for web browser on Android, but there is one feature/anti-feature that is annoying enough to oftentimes generally prefer and recommend a different browser. That feature is the automatic hiding of the address bar.

[MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION] - I would like to request a feature or removal of an anti-feature:

It would be very useful if the Address toolbar could stay on screen rather than being often hidden automatically. I request that the Address toolbar never be hidden or instead an option provided to allow a user to opt to hide the toolbar.
[Android Apps and Games] Waffelman:
+1

It would be nice if there where an option sth. like: "omibox always visible"

[MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION]

If you longpress the back button, you will get your browser history, it would be nice if it also respect the new "Diamond Black"-Theme.

All in all I have to say great browser - I love them.

Thank you very much and keep up the great work!
[Android Apps and Games] aagu:
When I play audio or video in private mode, here will be a notification saying media is playing with exact name. But I prefer to only showing "some site is playing media" like chrome does ?
[Android Apps and Games] Sajito:
I have noticed that some extensions don't work in incognito tabs, whereas they work perfectly fine in normal tabs.

For example uBlock Origin and "I don't care about cookies". They work well in normal tabs, but when I'm in incognito tabs, they are not doing anything.

When I click the 3 dot menu and select "I don't care about cookies" it won't load and uBlock origin just shows questions marks instead of the blocked content count.

I'm also using Violentmonkey and that one is working perfectly fine in incognito tabs.
[Android Apps and Games] suppossess:
new, fixed version: mediafire.com/file/j2w17yk7dpdjo3m/yt-bg.zip/file
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Hi,

A new version of Kiwi is available:

https://labs.xda-developers.com/store/app/com.kiwibrowser.browser

https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android/releases/tag/Andromeda

Version Andromeda (May 10, 2019)

- Fix news on the homepage (can be showing NULL from time to time)

- Fix some crashes when using a tab manager extension

- Fix crash on Quick Tapping in WebView

- This build provides better protection against Omnibox spoofing (address bar) and a much better experience in the Chrome Web Store

- Improve cross-domain management with translator (can resolve some cases where translator was not working)

- Fixing crashes related to Windows Management and one in the Omnibox

- Improved extensions UI

- Improve chrome.tabs API

- Improvements to Video Playback Battery usage (+/- 10% less)

:highfive:

64-bits support is now official! :D it's stable and will still be maintained (apk in GitHub).

It will appear in the Play Store next month.

Arnaud.
[Android Apps and Games] Akash Raj1:
Deleted.
[Android Apps and Games] Tilman:
Can we please have the Chrome default new page as the homepage on kiwi? Every time tabs are cleared, and app is cleared from recents, and when it's reopened, the ugly editable homepage shows up for some reason.
[Android Apps and Games] EMK2000:
It seems that the arm64 version on GitHub has a different signature than the Play Store version. Can it be fixed?
[Android Apps and Games] onliner:
It's not a bug, it's intentional.
[Android Apps and Games] Dwughjsd:
I would appriciate if Kiwi Browser can support DNS-Over-HTTPS just like Bromite do. (In fact I even want an encrypted SNI function that can be found on Firefox but it doesn't as useful as the former)

Also the browser is very slow when running this benchmark

www.antutu.com/html5/

When running SVG and canvas rendering, Kiwi is significantly slower than Chrome or old CAF Chromium.
[Android Apps and Games] jokeway:
Can the degree of Chineseization of language in kiwi browser be further improved?
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
I don't really know services used in China edcept the famous Baidu.

If you can guide me on what are the popular search engines / translate tool / other tools you need then I can add them.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Once the arm64 version will be deployed to the Play Store then I will share it with the Play Store key. I'm waiting for a more quiet moment in order to deploy it so I have time to process feedbacks
[Android Apps and Games] EMK2000:
I think maybe he means the app localization into Chinese language.

I have seen some people in a Chinese community who said that the Chinese localization is not complete and there are still some English.
[Android Apps and Games] Portgas D. Ace:
Wow, that's a great surprise :) I am glad that you took care of this :good:
[Android Apps and Games] aouerfelli:
Just wondering, is it intentional that the browser preview in recents is not blanked out when an incognito window is open like on Chrome?
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Yes it's to allow screenshots in Incognito mode. From a developer perspective, I disable screenshots and it disables preview and vice-versa

Lot of users are using incognito as a secondary session/profile rather than something to hide

Arnaud.
[Android Apps and Games] Giocarro:
It would be nice to have a choice: I'd prefer incognito sessions to be hidden in recents.
[Android Apps and Games] rafaelcxda:
Dude, surely this is the best browser for Android currently. Congratulations on your work!
[Android Apps and Games] ScOULaris:
Bug report: Even when allowing uBlock Origin in incognito mode it doesn't work in incognito mode.

Also, when going into the extension's details page you have to flip your phone into landscape to be able to see/toggle that particular switch.
[Android Apps and Games] usr3:
For me, the extension icon is grayed out in incognito mode, but adblock still works.
[Android Apps and Games] Sajito:
Same here. Not just with uBlock Origin, but also with "I don't care about cookies".
[Android Apps and Games] spyke180:
I just switched back to Kiwi after using Chrome Canary for a while. The only thing I really miss, is Canary has a fresh Tab Switcher UI with the New Tab button in the center instead of out of reach on the far left.

It'd be pretty groovy if that could be implemented in Kiwi.
[Android Apps and Games] :
The dev said that he is planning to rebase the browser on the most recent chromoim but it is not stable and does not correspond to the level of current Kiwi's performance so he is waiting.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
While the rebase is easier than forking in my case, I guess Google may "never" fix the issues, so I am working on backporting the Chrome functionalities on request and the whole UI in general.

The other possibility would be for me to investigate while Chromium has all this stuttering / lags. Fix them, and then rebase

The engine itself in Kiwi is very modern so it's not a hurry to change (the JS engine for example, despite what chrome://version says is one of the latest V8).

When manifest v3 comes around I may have to upgrade the engine though

The very ideal to me would be to fix the stuttering in current Chrome but let's see.
[Android Apps and Games] ScOULaris:
Yeah, what's up with the scroll stuttering in Chrome as of the last few months? It's what drove me to seek out alternatives like Kiwi in the first place. It wasn't present until maybe four months ago in Chrome stable, but it has never gotten any better.

Is it also present in Chromium itself? Something related to a change to the renderer?
[Android Apps and Games] jazzh:
Is there any way to implement text reflow/wrap function? Some extension?
[Android Apps and Games] protheusDK:
Install "Zoom Page WE" extension AND under options change the default zoom type to "Text" instead of Full. "AUTO" zoom works very well for me.
[Android Apps and Games] androidfive:
I hope default icognito comes with next updates. ?
[Android Apps and Games] thanhnvt194:
Where i can find that "text"options ?

Installed that extension and nothing changed
[Android Apps and Games] ichmoimeyo:
kiwi-extension://bcdjhkphgmiapajkphennjfgoehpodpk/options.html

Clicking on the extension in the menu drop-down gives you

kiwi-extension://bcdjhkphgmiapajkphennjfgoehpodpk/popup.html

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TextReFlower script works very well in Firefox:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/25553-textreflower

It doesn't work in Kiwi.

Would anybody know how to convert the script or transform it into an extension for Kiwi?

https://greasyfork.org/scripts/25553-textreflower/code/TextReFlower.user.js
[Android Apps and Games] lingowistico:
Does anyone know how to make "Add to Home Screen" work?

I'm on Lineage 16 and it just shows the prompt to add to home screen but you can't actually do it.

Nevermind, it works fine. :)

Great browser. Thanks a lot.
[Android Apps and Games] badbeats:
Is there a way to get the browser to show different news sites on the homepage? Chrome knows what I like from sports to computers, to games etc

Thank You great browser!

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Is there a way to get the browser to show different news sites on the homepage? Chrome knows what I like from sports to computers, to games etc

Thank You great browser!
[Android Apps and Games] RealPsygnosis:
Does is it normal that on pie I cannot move the search bar on bottom?
[Android Apps and Games] PhantomKiller03:
It works for me though, I'm on pie right now
[Android Apps and Games] LastDo:
For some reason many links cannot be opened by tapping. However, they open with long pressing to open new tab. I do not have ad filtering on.
[Android Apps and Games] ichmoimeyo:
Try changing Settings | Homepage

from

chrome-search://local-ntp/local-ntp.html

to

chrome-search://local-ntp/new-ntp.html
[Android Apps and Games] ScOULaris:
Tried this, but it's showing Null for all of the news source names. Seems unfinished at the moment.
[Android Apps and Games] ichmoimeyo:
It is mainly device dependent whether that option appears in the Settings. I have it on my moto x4(Pie) but not on my Huawei MediaPad m3 8.4". Some people can't get it on their S9 phones etc ....

https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/b6uuji/url_bottom_bar/
[Android Apps and Games] ichmoimeyo:
Yes, a temporary glitch that appeared a few days ago and is being worked on. The news pages it shows are news.google based and seeing as I'm logged in to my Google account it displays items tailored to my interests whatever language / country I choose. Also love that I can swype headlines away(need to open at least one article for it to work)
[Android Apps and Games] Gigobaito:
I second this.
[Android Apps and Games] sinchan_nohara:
Why does PIP work in kiwi browser?? It works perfectly on Chrome?
[Android Apps and Games] Reaper1337:
Am I the only one with cookie problems since the latest update?

The browser doesn't keep cookies, although it did before and I did not change any setting
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Hello,

A new version has been released

Version Betelgeuse (May 17, 2019)

This version fixes Craigslist and adds support for Import / Export on the new tab page.

It also bring performance improvements and fixes an issue with the Search Widget in Night Mode/Black theme.

Support for extensions has been improved as well (chrome.tabs.onCreated/onUpdated/onRemoved).

https://labs.xda-developers.com/store/app/com.kiwibrowser.browser

https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android/releases/tag/Betelgeuse
[Android Apps and Games] theasters:
On some forums I can not put (write) user name...

Thanks for the browser.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
You're welcome, glad that you like it :)

Is it in the night mode or all the time ?

Could you please share more details on how I could reproduce the issue ? (the website and the steps would be super useful)

Thank you,
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
The download manager is quite weak. The fact that the download speed is not even displayed is giving me cold chills :(

There is still significant work to do and I know that I won't be able to solve that magically in one night (especially because I have lot of work to finish on the NTP in the very short term).

In the very short-term I will make Kiwi compatible with external download managers like adm so you can benefit from multi-thread downloads and other good things.

Let's keep in touch,
[Android Apps and Games] b.roid:
what's your thought on adding privacy features like bromite has?

I'm a big fan of keeping google snooping away from my browser as much as possible.

it was talked about earlier but I am a fan of the brave browser quick toggle button for java scripts and ads. I do browse lots of sites without scripts for faster browsing but of course some sites don't work without scripts.

the kiwi toggle ;)

just some ideas :cool:

really like this browser :victory:
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
I'm thinking about a Turbo button that essentially disable JavaScript and take some unhealthy shortcuts but the concept is still not clear in my head which is why I didn't start yet.

At the end, the website should load fast and look decent.

To avoid Google to snoop, as long as your change the default search engine there is very little to no interaction with Google (the only one I know from the top of my head, are the favicons on the homepage).

The next release has a (small) positive change in terms of privacy but I don't want to spoil yet.
[Android Apps and Games] theasters:
I am using night mode, one of the forum is Mobilism. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] fystrified:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/70819065

The page that I linked remained blank and white after I signed in my Google account,enabling desktop site doesn't work as well but using Brave Browser works fine
[Android Apps and Games] SynthBpm:
since it feels like it'll take a while before the content blocker is fully up to scratch, and doesn't just treat the entire content of random sites as an ad, I feel like I gotta ask, should we be reporting these in this thread.

i mentioned vox sites and kinja sites before last update, which fixed all of those (which is great btw, thanks a ton for that work).

Just asking if the dev wants more reports like that in this thread.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
[MENTION=7617796]fystrified[/MENTION] -- I am going to check [MENTION=9214905]SynthBpm[/MENTION] -- The next version is already improved so maybe I have actually fixed these cases, otherwise, yes, reporting is cool.

If you prefer, you can share the URL in PM.
[Android Apps and Games] Ariac Konrel:
This browser is great, I've been using it for a couple of months.

Just a question, is there any way to open YouTube links via the app from Kiwi? Chrome asks if you'd like to when you hit a YouTube link, but Kiwi just opens a new tab.

Thanks. :)
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Long press on link, open in external application.
[Android Apps and Games] lazostat:
Can you make a speed dial?
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Yes, soon
[Android Apps and Games] Bingley:
Can this be made by default, for say twitter, youtube, spotify etc
[Android Apps and Games] Najner:
Kinda weird... I've been using this awesome browser for few days now and now I realized that YouTube background playing stopped working. Any hints how to bring it back? Pixel2, Android 9 ppp3.
[Android Apps and Games] narco14:
Ahhh c'est cool c'est vraiment une bonne nouvelle, j'adore ton navigateur et j'ai laissé un commentaire sur le market que je pense vraiment (en très bien), j'ai énormément de favoris sur chrome entre, les rom, les kernel, les Modem, les scripts, etc.... Merci pour ce magnifique travail, sache que si tu faisais une version pro pour pouvoir importer mes favoris je l'achèterai directement ;)
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Awww, I have used background play this afternoon it was working.

A surprise update by Google I guess :(

Yes it's broken.

Ok, I guess I have to release an urgent hotfix in the night.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Merci beaucoup, j'ai vu ton commentaire (E.B.) :o

L'import de favoris va venir, j'ai trouve une solution :)

Je prefere faire un soft gratuit utilise par 100,000 personnes, plutot qu'un soft payant utilise par 5,000.

Il y a un certain plaisir a interagir avec beaucoup de gens et a chercher des solutions.
[Android Apps and Games] narco14:
Ouai c'est clair, tu as raison, en tout cas beau travail, bien mieux que le chrome original.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Ok, so I've done a fix, I'll pack some other features now and ship the release.

I really wanted to do other things as well, but I guess it's better not to wait.
[Android Apps and Games] mraeryceos:
Lastpass is working on Oreo with the Autofill Service.
[Android Apps and Games] thanhnvt194:
Love the new incognito icon ?

Thank you
[Android Apps and Games] ScOULaris:
Just tested on the latest version. Allow in Incognito toggle still doesn't work for uBlock Origin. You also have to rotate the phone into landscape to even be able to see the toggle in the extension settings. If there's somewhere else I should be reporting bugs let me know.
[Android Apps and Games] basmeuter:
Latest build (Betelgeuse) gives me problems. Many times I can't open a website or after opening or gives a window that the webpage cannot be found or opened. So I deleted it and installed the previous version (Andromeda), that's working perfectly fine.