The Bromite project has been inactive for the last 9 months or so. Today I found this fork of Bromite that’s well maintained and seems to work flawlessly. Hope it helps others who were looking for a replacement.

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        If you disable chrome and only have Firefox on it will use Firefox webview. Android should have make it use default browser or have a selection for default webview.

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          There is a selection in developer settings and it does not list Firefox.

          Disabling Chromium or not having it in the first place simply makes apps that use WebView crash.

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            I don’t see it as n option in webview under dev settings but… it uses it I believe? Screenshot

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              What’s shown in this picture has nothing to do with WebViews, it’s a custom tab.

              Try opening an app that has a WebView. I can’t think of a good example on the top of my head but the Deutsche Bahn Navigator uses them and crashes without a WebView present.

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                Ah TIL. From the user perspective they have similarities, but developer side they got some different use cases. Thanks for the references!

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              I find mobile FF does have a webview component (aka custom tabs), but it must be explicitly called for in a app’s setting. Otherwise the system only uses the Chrome webview.

              I even installed the Mulch webview app. But the system still used Chrome’s webview; that’s until i temporarily disabled Chome. It was then Mulch shows up in deveolper settings.

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      I want to use Firefox on Android, but it’s simply not there yet. It’s noticeably slower, some sites have broken layout, and I kinda hate their tan management system. I still have it installed, and willing to switch if it’s capable enough, but sadly it’s not.

      It’s the best browser on desktop though, by far.

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      Because OP prefers Chromite, maybe? Just a wild guess…

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    Thank goodness someone picked up the project and released a fork. The browser is too good to be abandoned.

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    Does it allow playback of DRM media? I have some cough science websites that needs DRM for playback.

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        Cool. I hope it is released on Play Store if it is possible. If brave & kiwi can be released, I’m sure they can also release without issue.

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          It’s not free to publish apps on the Play Store. And I’m not sure if this is still the case today, but I recall of Google forcing to include their libraries on apps published there.

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            Chromium already does use tons of Google libs already underneath. The fees is a fair point though. But it’s one time fees right? I think the community can raise that much money. Heck even I would be willing to donate a part of they are willing to publish on Play Store.

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            It’s a bummer. If the app was good then I would have replaced Brave with it on my parent’s devices.

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    Fennec has been amazing for me for quite a time now but it is a bit frustrating to use FF only when you’re using android. That’s only because Google sucks ass but this will somewhat be a remedy.

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    Kiwi is the only android browser for me, being able to access all the standard desktop addons is game changing, like damn.

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    There is an open issue for JPEG-XL support. Once Cromite adopts JXL, I’d be willing to switch over

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    Mulch can also be said to be another spiritual successor to Bromite since it’s also supposed to be hardened against threats.

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    I don’t understand why bromite can’t sync to chrome pc? Anyone?