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[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
The default has been changed to not enable Swipe up because of some Android ROMs which require swipe-up to display on-screen soft keys.

You can enable it back in Settings, Accessibility anytime ;)
[Android Apps and Games] moonstar_paddy:
Does it support Casting to TV?
[Android Apps and Games] slipstreamer88:
Miracast or Chromecast?

Miracast works perfectly on my 2 phones from Kiwi browser.
[Android Apps and Games] moonstar_paddy:
Chromecast. Let me download and try it anyway. :)
[Android Apps and Games] slipstreamer88:
I can't access www.tournamentsoftware.com from Kiwi (tried on version Delta and Eta). I believe it has something to do with the auto cookie acceptance.

Page works perfectly on Chrome 72 and prior.
[Android Apps and Games] joakimbo:
You mean this?

Turn off "hide annoying ads"
[Android Apps and Games] lazostat:
Delete pls!
[Android Apps and Games] luvxinh:
If you can incorporate both back and next button into one slide from side, that would be great. This is because most people when using swipe gesture, they expect to use it one hand. So it's no point trying to reach all the way to the other edge for another functionality
[Android Apps and Games] Tilman:
Anyone?
[Android Apps and Games] androidfive:
Kiwi Browser use cosmetic filtering right?

Then can the dev add the feature to use uBlock Filter Lists?
[Android Apps and Games] :
Not only uBlock but the dev is working on features to allow the user to import his her own filter list.

Strictly WIP

Join the discord server to get latest news and info on the WIP of the browser.
[Android Apps and Games] Flasher8:
Hi, possible to add some animation like latest chrome ? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] █████:
hi. If i turn on dark mode there are only two usable options with Bugs:

<100%: grey color on black Background-> very hard to read!

>100%: white text on black (perfect! Love it!!) but the links are also white -> no difference between links and Text. You can't use this mode because of this. Links should be like in 99% and color should be white.

thx! would pay for this app.
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
Not sure where the browser gets icons from for certain bookmarks but they have no relevance to the website, they are just patterns. In other browser bookmark icon show fine. In the bookmarks tab it shows the correct icon, it's only on the homepage it displays a pattern icon
[Android Apps and Games] androidfive:
Can he make a telegram group?
[Android Apps and Games] buktore:
https://m.pantip.com/forum/mbk

When I scrolled to the bottom of this website, the "loading for more content" only happen for a couple of time and then it wouldn't load anymor until I clicked some link or click the navibar to bring up the keyboard, which will make the "loading more thing" work for a couple of time and just stop working again and need to do the thing I mention to repeat the cycle.

I don't know if this a bug (or something about the optimization) of this app or was it something I did. But I never encounter this issue with any other browser I tried.

Thanks for your help.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Hi,

I think I have fixed this bug in the latest dev :highfive:

https://storage.googleapis.com/kbdevreleases/Kiwi-20190202185810.apk

This is dev, so you cannot install on top of release (XDA) and have to uninstall Release/Stable you may want to export your bookmarks and save them to your GDrive/Email if you are impatient to try.
[Android Apps and Games] buktore:
Wow that was quick!

It's OK, I can wait for the usual update. The fact that you went out of your way to tell me that it's fixed and give me the link for the build to me to try it out is wayy more than I asked for, in a good way ofc. :)

Keep up the good work!

Thx.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Let's see, but the last bug I fixed was so similar that I think it is :)

Otherwise if it's not, I'll be happy to find and fix it in the next release.
[Android Apps and Games] buktore:
I might just asking/reporting about this also while I'm at it... :fingers-crossed:

It seem to happen at any website, but it's very easy to test at th same site as before: just click on any thread (or just click here), you should see a "Desktop Version" button in the lower left cornor of the site's "toolbar". The botton, or more precisely, the whole buttom part of the screen, cannot be click if the browser's navigation/tab bar is not visible on the screen. This happen whether the "Bottom Toolbar" is enabled or not.

Is this a bug of this app or is it just me? ... I wouldn't be surprise if it just me though; dicking around too much in Chrome "flags" page without having any clue whatsoever what any of it does and I ought to horribly break something.... :silly:

Thx for your help!
[Android Apps and Games] Tomatot-:
The issue has been reported a few times and it happens to me as well, or sometimes I press somewhere and it registers somewhere else.
[Android Apps and Games] fruity101079:
Just for info: if Cookies disabled, the home page is buggy.
[Android Apps and Games] Arctic Prodigy:
I haven't used this browser in a while ever since the news articles cannot be swiped away like before, and I see it still is not fixed, back to my standby browser with adblocker again and forget about this one for apparently a good deal longer it seems.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
You can still swipe them away if you use chrome://newtab as homepage.

This is unchanged and still there.

On the new tab page, you can hide the whole block of news if you want with the [x] and the swipe is used to navigate history
[Android Apps and Games] Arctic Prodigy:
I will try, thanks.

Update: Works well.
[Android Apps and Games] saltylemondrops:
Text scaling doesn't affect on some web pages, either.
[Android Apps and Games] kingbeta:
Is there any way I can automatically sync bookmarks between Chrome and Kiwi? Do any 3rd party apps work for this? Or does it need to be done manually? I use Chrome on desktop, so a regular sync facility would be useful for me.
[Android Apps and Games] Portgas D. Ace:
I think this has been requested several times now. Please search this thread for more information.

tl;dr: bookmark sync isn't possible by default.
[Android Apps and Games] Depressed T.Bear:
Does anyone know how I get more search engines than just Bing?
[Android Apps and Games] :
Visit the search engine's homepage and it will appear on the Search Engine settings.
[Android Apps and Games] Depressed T.Bear:
No, didn't work. I tried it with Google and duckduckgo, still in browser settings only 'default search engine' is available which uses Bing when I search from the address bar
[Android Apps and Games] broky:
Nice job here dev.

Is there any chance for text wrap with this browser in the future?
[Android Apps and Games] moonstar_paddy:
Cannot cast videos on Chromecast. Tried youtube and the cast icon does not come up.
[Android Apps and Games] Portgas D. Ace:
From my experience, some search engines need some time to show up within the default search engine tab, others need to be added to it manually by clicking the "add to Chrome" button on their homepage.

For example, when visiting duckduckgo, such a button showed up for me. When clicking it and restarting Kiwi, duckduckgo shows up in the list. In some older versions I had to visit duckduckgo several times (and using its search function) before it shows up in the list.
[Android Apps and Games] MiliWanili:
Last update: videos don't work in full screen on my Oneplus One, it is almost full screen, very weird. There were video playback problems before but this is worse now.
[Android Apps and Games] █████:
I bet you can't spot a single link!

Here are two Screenshots. One with 100% contrast and 101% contrast.

Contrast below 100% results in grey text which is very hard to read outside. The text should be white and links should stay the same.

In conclusion:

Grey on black is a bad Idea.

White links surrounded with white text is a bad idea.

Text should be white, links should contain their color
[Android Apps and Games] k500zm:
[MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION]

This point has been raised many many times by many many people and you have never even acknowledged this could you please respond to the fact that on 101% contrast the links lose their colour and become white is there anyway that when the contrast is 101% that the links could retain their colour please respond
[Android Apps and Games] Tyakrish:
Yes.... Even the issue of default animations ...
[Android Apps and Games] MiliWanili:
Yes that's what I meant, it used to happen before but now it's always like that.
[Android Apps and Games] protheusDK:
You need to try the dev release, soon there is going to be a new stable release
[Android Apps and Games] k500zm:
That looks great where would I get the Dev release?

Edit - found it
[Android Apps and Games] Tyakrish:
Can you tell where you found...
[Android Apps and Games] k500zm:
Read the very first post on this thread and within 30 words it will tell you where to find it
[Android Apps and Games] murali3127:
How to disable adblocker? Cause I am using AdGuard.
[Android Apps and Games] :
There is an option to switch of adblocker in the 3dot menu
[Android Apps and Games] murali3127:
That you have to Toggle for every website not one switch for all.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Just click on it while on the Homepage and see ;)
[Android Apps and Games] filnirv:
Hi

many thanks for your great work.

Any chance to add media sniffer?
[Android Apps and Games] ozyk100:
Can you please explain how did you get this to work?

When I leave homepage on but delete address and save I have the news with some bookmarks above but can't swipe them away or interact with them in any other way except open to read, I don't know even how to refresh the news....

If I enter chrome://newtab/ in homepage I get some bookmarks but the news doesn't appear at all and I don't know what to do to make the news appear!

Please help me figure this out...
[Android Apps and Games] lazostat:
Do they conflict together?
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
I absolutely agree with you, that's why it is now changed in the new stable release and links retain their color in 101% night mode:

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

A new stable release is available on XDA-Developers

Version Iota (February 12, 2019)

- Change: Slightly refreshed UI (icons / rounded corners)

- Improv: Javascript engine is 10% faster than Chromium (try on V8 Benchmark)

- Fix: Touch not taken into account (in particular at the bottom of the screen)

- Change: Night Mode is default to 100% for new installs

- Improv: 101% Night Mode is now White text with differentiated links

- Improv: Automatically follow AMP links to non-AMP version if anti-AMP is enabled

- Improv: Better memory usage

- Improv: 400KB less

and minor bugfixes

There are a couple of minor changes (ex: in night mode, the play button) but they have relatively low impact.

I hope the Javascript speed is going to be better for everyone, and I'll keep working on that.

About TLS1.3 fixes, they are coming, It's just that with only 10 days between two releases, to get something stable on such important component as BoringSSL (the crypto lib) I have to be really fast ;)

If you need anything let me know,

Arnaud.
[Android Apps and Games] Commando_Dhruva:
Is there a workaround to integrate firefox sync with kiwi?
[Android Apps and Games] androidfive:
Can the you add ignocnigo default? (difficult word. ?, ( i mean auto delete Cookie and other stuff on browser exit or disable the saving general of this things )
[Android Apps and Games] SeanWatson:
With 101 contrast links are hard to see as their colour is also white. How about having links underlined at high contrast so you can see them easily? It can be a separate option too as I prefer underlined links in normal mode too.

Edit: just noticed a new update, links are a different colour now, that works too
[Android Apps and Games] k500zm:
This has been fixed in the new version so it is not an issue anymore download it from XDA Labs
[Android Apps and Games] Pseudonym:
Been requesting it ever since
[Android Apps and Games] teostar:
I been asking for this for a while now, now it's in oh browser.

Can u implement a similar home page set up to this?
[Android Apps and Games] buktore:
Bug still there in the latest version.
[Android Apps and Games] thomas2000:
Hi I like this browser very much, only one website is not working. Can other people check if they can visit www.tweakers.net ?
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
Untick hide annoying ads
[Android Apps and Games] thomas2000:
That works great thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] Akash Raj1:
The news articles in the home page show wrong last updated time. It's not a serious bug just mentioned it to bring it to your attention.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Thanks, preparing a fix.
[Android Apps and Games] vinoca:
Enabled the bottom toolbar but 2 or 3 tabs opened when i switching to tabs the opened tabs all are in the top, every time go to top to click the tab is there any option to bring the tabs to bottom or its in the future option????

Anyone Reply

See the Screenshot for reference [IMG="Screenshot"]https://lookimg.com/images/2019/02/15/DxZ6c.png[/IMG]
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Hi,

Small new release, mostly to improve the anti-anti-adblock and a bug with the date/time on the homepage.

Version Kappa (February 15, 2019)

- Fix: Issue with the news date on the home page

- Improv: Content filters

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

:highfive:
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Done
[Android Apps and Games] androidfive:
Which filters do you use for adblock?
[Android Apps and Games] Try it or die:
His own.
[Android Apps and Games] androidfive:
Damn, too much work. ?
[Android Apps and Games] F5:ed:
Kiwi is my favorite browser, however I would like to see an easier way to add bookmarks on the homepage (like Firefox, where I can do it by setting homepage as default). In Kiwi it's a little bit harder.

I hope you understand my point.
[Android Apps and Games] Flasher8:
Hi thanks for the wonderful browser.

Wan to ask :

1. I remember previously I used PIP and no issue. But recently I can't get it working ?

2. When I using full screen mode, I have the status bar appeared and can't hide it. (Attached photo)

3. Have any telegram for discussion?
[Android Apps and Games] filnirv:
Any chance to add media sniffer?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] gdgsdg123:
Have you checked

this

?..
[Android Apps and Games] 80s Baby:
+1

Btw what font is that?
[Android Apps and Games] Akash Raj1:
Google sans font.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
No I haven't seen it before but it's so great, I'll get back to you point by point :highfive:
[Android Apps and Games] duongcuong96:
Pretty good browser, but just one thing I'm really missing is the video control ( control brightness, audio with a swipe ) when watching video :(

That feature is the only reason I have to stick with CM Browser
[Android Apps and Games] BigBrosMo:
I would love to see the video controls work like this too
[Android Apps and Games] duongcuong96:
I think it really essential feature but don't know why just few browsers have this :/
[Android Apps and Games] Try it or die:
Even official YouTube app doesn't have that^^
[Android Apps and Games] BigBrosMo:
Vanced does. And it's awesome. Back when Dolphin was good it had it too, then it changed it up and went to the standard chrome player which sucks. I really like the swipe for brightness and volume. It should be standard everywhere.
[Android Apps and Games] SplitCold:
How do you set bookmarks as the homepage?
[Android Apps and Games] kvevand63:
I may be wrong, but enabling #simplified-ntp in chrome://flags should do it. However it hasn't worked in the last few updates (at least not on my device).
[Android Apps and Games] Auraxion:
Small question, why do you use your own filters when you can choose from the plethora of existing large filters, No Cookies filter, Easylist, Easyprivacy and Malwaredomains?

Is the code open source?

Just a question.
[Android Apps and Games] bejunk:
Hello,

can anyone please tell me what url i have to use to get default Chrome (not Kiwi ones) shortcuts on new tab page? It was posted by arnaud somewhere, but i cant find it.

Also want to say, i love this project! Big thumbs up to arnaud for his great effort & support. You are great.

thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] :
Go to homepage - and set chrome://newtab as the dafault homepage.

Be warned though, Setting it as the default amd force closing the browser will revert to Kiwi homepage
[Android Apps and Games] oktaya:
[MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION]

The browser is able to display a certain website that is blocked countrywide. I don't see a mention of a proxy server baked in or some sort of data saver mode where the content comes from another server. How is this happening? It's weird.

---------- Post added at 01:03 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:03 AM ----------

[/COLOR [MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION]

The browser is able to display a certain website that is blocked countrywide. I don't see a mention of a proxy server baked in or some sort of data saver mode where the content comes from another server. How is this happening? It's weird.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Did you enable dns over https in flags ?

If so, instead of asking your local ISP where to fetch content from, it asks (the IP address to) Google.

Otherwise it could be if you use Intra or CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 system-wide and that can have the same effect. One other possibility could be TLS1.3 that could prevent some sort of deep packet inspection / interception.

No VPN/proxy/data saver/any magic
[Android Apps and Games] zilexa:
Exactly this question. Why waste time reinventing the wheel?

And please can you add a switch to disable the cookie consent blocker? It still prevents a lot of people from using your browser. It makes no sense to have to disable your adblocker completely, just to be able to give your consent to a website.

Seems not right, can you imagine the internet goes blank if you have enabled an adblocker? That's not right, yet that is exactly what your browser does.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
I agree the GDPR filters are doing a lot of false positive. This is my responsibility and I am working on improving it. I am a user too, and I see it.

It's way easier for me to maintain (and debug with users) a simple short list and just hardcode it than actually load lists, make an update system, import and convert rules, etc.

The process of loading lists, update, import, etc, Google is going to implement that; Chrome is going to add support for importing AdBlock Plus rules in a future version:

https://www.ghacks.net/2019/01/22/chrome-extension-manifest-v3-could-end-ublock-origin-for-chrome/

My strategy is to let Google work on the Easylist/Adblock Plus importer, and during this time, continue to do fixes to my lists and focus my efforts on bringing some sort of extensions support / user scripts or other Kiwi's added-value ( side-note: Google is trying to kill user scripts: https://9to5google.com/2019/01/29/chrome-manifest-v3-tampermonkey/ )
[Android Apps and Games] somethingnew84313:
I just ditched chrome for this with no regrets. Thanks! Great browser and pretty fast.
[Android Apps and Games] louca:
I really love this browser. It replaced chrome on both my smartphone and tablet (Galaxy Note9 and Galaxy Tab S4). It's flawless on smartphone, but I have some problems on Tab. I have to set aagain the night mode each time I open the app after it was killed or the device rebooted. Moreover, again only on tab, I can't find the option to move the url bar on the bottom.

EDIT: greatest difference between devices is that the smartphone is updated to Android Pie while the tab is still on Oreo.
[Android Apps and Games] kam333:
[MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION]

Been using this browser for a few months and still enjoying it, I have a feature request.

At some point in the future could you look into adding a setting to make this a floating browser?

It's already possible to make it resizable using another app (see screenshot attached), but would be great if it was a built in feature.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] █████:
Hi. Kiwi doesn't support notifications on sites like mydealz.de and twitter.com. How can I make it work? I reinstalled the app and it still wont work :( is it my fault?
[Android Apps and Games] Hopie:
Same on ComputerBase.de

Wait for solution :)
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Hi everyone,

A new release of Kiwi is available:

Version Lambda (February 27, 2019)

Introducing Reachability: (only if the bottom toolbar is enabled).

When you press the Hand icon, it brings the top of the page into reach (the top of the page slides down).

You can enable or disable the option in Settings, Accessibility.

The function is similar to the iOS "Reachability" function.

+ TLS 1.3 final support

+ Faster homepage loading

+ Faster tab closing

+ Better battery usage

+ Improved ad blocker, popup blocker.

+ Added StartPage in search engines (new installs only)

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

Enjoy your day! :highfive:
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Noted, I have an idea on how to fix that :) At the moment Kiwi is disconnected from Google servers for notifications, so I need to find a way to reconnect that and then to add the relevant UI piece (because notifications are rejected by default, and you can't whitelist in Chrome a website where you have rejected notifications yet)
[Android Apps and Games] joakimbo:
Great!

Just noticed a bug with reachability, this is after pressing the hand icon. Happens on all pages for me.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
I have now just clarified the description a bit better that the Hand feature slides the page down, does it make sense also in your use case ? It's usually for one-handed usage :) (or maybe I misunderstood what you mean by bug in this case ?)
[Android Apps and Games] joakimbo:
Ah.. I misunderstood. Thought it was a fast way to get to the top. Sorry about that. Awesome work on the browser. Love it!
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Thanks a lot, and no worries, you are not the only one. Every single person I have showed the feature to, had the same reaction it's tricky to explain but after getting used to it it's pretty brilliant :)
[Android Apps and Games] datumdatzgr:
Hi, is there any possibility to use personalized news in homepage? I login into news.google.com but still news are not related to my interests i think. Chrome handles this perfectly. ıt utilizes my searchs etc.
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Yes, just wait one hour for the news to refresh or change the region to another country (on the homepage) and then put back your country.

Let me know if that works for you,

Arnaud.
[Android Apps and Games] Tyakrish:
Its really brilliant :D Am enjoying using it... Really helpful for thumb to access top of page...
[Android Apps and Games] CubaoX:
Reachability doesn't work when java script is disabled,

could work little bit strange (at least on startpage.com),

page (startpage.com) is locked, when menu opened.

Look at screenshots:
[Android Apps and Games] Tomatot-:
It is a great idea indeed, and it's made very smoothly. Good job and keep it up. :)
[Android Apps and Games] g104:
[MENTION=9196003]arnaud42[/MENTION] Will you add bfcache?
[Android Apps and Games] arnaud42:
Yes once Google adds one big missing feature:

"Major things that aren't supported yet:

- Freezing the frame in the BackForwardCache. They are still able to execute

JavaScript in the background. They can still interact using IPCs with the

browser process and causes crashes."

This literally loads multiple invisible (active) tabs in the background, it needs a bit refinement to be enabled by default ;)
[Android Apps and Games] jalapenopepper19:
Sorry if this is been asked elsewhere but how do i import my passwords from chrome to kiwi?