Lightning-Browser

A lightweight Android browser with modern navigation

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A lightweight Android browser with modern navigation

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Observed mentions: 2016-04-04 20:49:53 UTC to 2022-05-18 15:50:37 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

What Hacker News says

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mdp2021·May 18, 2022

Also try "Lightning Browser" ( acr.browser.lightning ) from Anthony Restaino ( acrdevelopment.org ). > Rendering mode[s]: Inverted ; Grayscale ; Inverted grayscale ; Increase contrast https://github.com/anthonycr/Lightning-Browser

In Please Stop Using Grey Text

webew·Nov 15, 2019

I have found lightning browser [0] to be a very minimalist replacement for chrome, waterfox, fennec and the like. It's also on F-droid, which is a plus. [0] https://github.com/anthonycr/Lightning-Browser

In How to Remove Suggested “Articles for You” from Android Chrome

jhasse·Sep 4, 2017

On Linux there are quite a few other options e.g. Eolie. https://github.com/gnumdk/eolie On Android I can recommend Lightning: https://github.com/anthonycr/Lightning-Browser

In “Google: it is time to return to not being evil”

PeCaN·Jul 7, 2016

I downloaded a different Android browser (Lightning¹) that I set to send a desktop useragent and use that for redditing. Works nicely for avoiding reddit's impressively awful mobile site. ¹ https://github.com/anthonycr/Lightning-Browser

In Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, existing users opted in

PeCaN·Apr 4, 2016

Disabling JS on mobile is a godsend though. I keep JS disabled on my phone[1] most of the time and it's generally just a more pleasant experience. I don't even have a particularly slow phone (HTC One M8, I guess it's a couple years old now but it's held up well) but the speed improvement is very noticeable. We may be crazy but we have our reasons. 1. The very nifty Lightning browser <https://github.com/anthonycr/Lightning-Browser> exposes a convenient setting for this; there's very little menu digging involved if I want to enable it.

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