[APP][4.1+] Kiwi Browser? Chromium + Adblock + CAF + Night Mode 2020-04-17|Active

[Laicure]

LOL, not advertising anyone or anything mate. If you check out the GitHub repo you'll see it is built by getting some patches from Bromite and Ungoogled project (to which I contributed for a while). It is almost always built when Chromium official build is released.

And marmaduke is posting his builds here as well: https://chromium.woolyss.com/#comments

I know Kiwi has good fan base and rightfully so because it is a good browser and the developer is quite active. However when it comes to privacy I simply prefer to use either Bromite or droidchrome, I guess each to their own. This is why Android is good, we have choices.

I all fairness, what is good for me might not be for someone else. Let's not make this thread convoluted, if Kiwi's developer doesn't want to go Open Source it is his decision. I just don't agree with the "progressively open source" bit, but then again, hence I use other browsers so it doesn't really matter.

Cheers

Lol for you too.
You should have said those earlier than linking a repo with zero info in the readme.
Anyway, we're straying too far from Kiwi's thread.

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I have Blockada and Ad Away installed. In this scenario is uBlock Origin needed? Esp. when of RAM consumption is an issue. I wonder if there's a way to only keep uBO for its image restriction abilities (I have set it to 100KB) and turn adblocking features off.

Without blocking other apps, uBlock Origin with proper settings will suffice.
If you have AdAway, you don't need Blokada unless you use Blokada for other purposes such as the DNS changer.

 

[Emu]

If you have Adaway you can uncheck almost all of the filter lists except Easylist for cosmetic filtering. You don't need those big malware lists. They're for Windows malware.

 

[protheusDK]

@jonvash kiwi doesn't support adobe flash

 

[diablos222]

I wish it had dark theme apart from dark and white. It also should work on speed dial, because it looks weird when you have dark mode enabled but speed dial is still blinding you with its white color.

 

[GuestK00235]

I wish it had dark theme apart from dark and white. It also should work on speed dial, because it looks weird when you have dark mode enabled but speed dial is still blinding you with its white color.

If you have set chrome://newtab as you homepage then night mode will not affect that page.

 

[fabianmvx]

Hi,

I'm here so say thank you for the Browser.
I am using it for months now and never had any problems with it.
Thank you for developing such an amazing app!

Greetings from ??

 

[fzoli990]

Hello Developers,

Is it planned to add exceptions for night mode? (like you did for the built-in adblocker in the recent update).
However, your night theme is awesome and works perfectly on almost every website, there are some pages where it is not and I would prefer to disable it.

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Hello Developers,

Is it planned to add exceptions for night mode? (like you did for the built-in adblocker in the recent update).
However, your night theme is awesome and works perfectly on almost every website, there are some pages where it is not and I would prefer to disable it.

 

[protheusDK]

@fzoli990 until you suggestion is implemented you can use extensions like "dark background and light text" or "dark reader"

 

[FlorianReicht]

totally enjoying Kiwi - thank you for providing.
The only page I found which does not work properly in night-mode is event pages of iTeleseminar like upcoming ones
https://instantteleseminar.com/Events/117033492
same as past ones
https://instantteleseminar.com/Events/114574476

On Desktop the only way to "fix it" is when in Chromium images are disabled and DarkReader-AddOn is active.
Also while on topic, are there any plans to implement a "disable images" option on Kiwi?

Keep up the great work

Edit: I've been reading through this thread and it's said that uBlock is more efficient than the in-build ad-blocker. One can also disable pictures with it, so the blue background is gone. One step in the right direction, although the foreground is still blue (the one color which is not recommended at night)

Edit2: Installed Dark Reader and activated grey shades for the site - it is now acceptable for night-time surfing

 

[NamitNayan]

@arnaud42 Can you please add a javascript toggle in the menu just like 'hide annoying ads'?

 

[protheusDK]

@FlorianReicht there's an extension to disable images, you could try https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text-mode/adelhekhakakocomdfejiipdnaadiiib

 

[joakimbo]

Have the development ceased?

 

[GuestK00235]

Have the development ceased?

No. The developer is on vacation.

 

[ak097]

Hi developer!
I am facing a problem with kiwi browser that is quite annoying for me. I just disabled chrome and started using kiwi as my default. The problem I am facing is, when I open the feeds/news in google discover section, it directly opens in kiwi browser as a new tab. Earlier It used Android system webview powered by chrome to open within the google app. Can I get is feature in kiwi too?

 

[NamitNayan]

Hi developer!
I am facing a problem with kiwi browser that is quite annoying for me. I just disabled chrome and started using kiwi as my default. The problem I am facing is, when I open the feeds/news in google discover section, it directly opens in kiwi browser as a new tab. Earlier It used Android system webview powered by chrome to open within the google app. Can I get is feature in kiwi too?

settings
privacy
allow custom tab intents(or something similar)
and set kiwi as default browser.

 

[ak097]

settings
privacy
allow custom tab intents(or something similar)
and set kiwi as default browser.

There is no option like this in browser privacy settings. Also kiwi is already my default browser.

 

[NamitNayan]

There is no option like this in browser privacy settings. Also kiwi is already my default browser.

it should be working then.

 

[ak097]

it should be working then.

It is not working actually ?
Any other solutions?

 

[Emu]

Wow! Kiwi Browser has more than 1 million downloads now. Congrats arnaud! I remember when it was more like 100,000 downloads earlier this year. But Play Store has a weird way of rounding things so it was probably much more.

 

[GuestK00235]

Hi developer!
I am facing a problem with kiwi browser that is quite annoying for me. I just disabled chrome and started using kiwi as my default. The problem I am facing is, when I open the feeds/news in google discover section, it directly opens in kiwi browser as a new tab. Earlier It used Android system webview powered by chrome to open within the google app. Can I get is feature in kiwi too?

The problem is the google app, Not Kiwi or Chrome. Google app for what reason I don't only allows Chrome to open links with a custom tab. Other browser will open a new tab as you say.