android

For someone who want firefox to success, I still am not happy with the performance of firefox preview. Currently there is kiwi browser on Android not sure if they have for ios as well, which is chromium based and support extensions. Recently the developer also make it open source. Shout out to the devs. https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android

It had a GitHub repo (https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android) described as "source code used in Kiwi", but it was just a Chromium codebase thrown there without the actual patches. Glad to see it's open source now however there is no commit history (thus no individual patches) and it's not possible to see which version of Chromium this was forked from.

It is not and has never been, see https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android/issues/12#issuecommen...

The poster is the author of Kiwi browser, which unfortunately is closed source [0], but I have reason to believe he is familiar - as I am for the Bromite project - with all the (sometimes shady) internals of the Chromium codebase; it is indeed off-topic to discuss the header issue there but I would say that there is no explicit intention to derail it (and no advantage), just incorrect netiquette. [0]: https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android/issues/12#issuecommen...

I just discovered this (while looking for ways to do some local integration, and wishing for the 10e9999th time I could use extensions). Was very surprised to find it. It seems quite new (the website's about page is broken, for example). I'm dumping it here to see what HN thinks of it. Potentially interesting/relevant links: - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowse... - https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android The main (current?) caveat with the extension support is that you have to manually download and poke .crx files (or unpacked extensions) in manually. Haven't verified, but I fully expect you could probably cp -rv extension directories from your desktop Chrome profile directly to your device. You'd need to sort out some kind of manual sync process though, since this of course wouldn't autoupdate. No idea about fut

This is just for show. [1] >No. The browser is not fully open source like open in open source. It is a common myth and misconception about Kiwi Browser. >Damn, 1 commit and nothing else but keeps updating and releasing apks? Looked into the issues and scarcely seen replies. >I think this repo is just to show that "hey, I provided the so-called source code (even though not fully open-source as said above) so trust me and install me" thing. [1]: https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android/issues/30

Thanks! I'm investigating it and sadly it seems a bit stale with last commit made 5 months ago: https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android For browsers this seems like a bit too long without updates. I can imagine maintaining such project is demanding but hopefully the project can gain more attention now with the new version of Firefox breaking extensions on Android.

> The browser is not fully open source like open in open source. It is a common myth and misconception about Kiwi Browser. https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android/issues/30 There's NewPipe at F-Droid for youtube music in the background and so much more.

Just curious, this Kiwi Browser is a Chromium fork, but is it or is it not open source? I see that there's a repo on GitHub: https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android But the status of the code is unclear (the readme just says it's unsupported), and the last public commit was months ago while the app on the Play Store (having been restored) was updated much more recently.

https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android/issues/30#issuecommen... I guess thats true XDA indicates "progressively open source" whatever that means https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-kiwi...

https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android Literally the first link on DDG

~~There seems to be no source or github for kiwi browser.~~ Actually he is dumping source in the releases but no history or link to where he forked chromium (there may be an artifact in the source tree that would help however) - https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android/releases.