Which open-source web browser do you use on mobile?

Re:Which open-source web browser do you use on mobile? by stephenr on Sunday June 03, 2018 @01:24PM (#17220576)

How open source? Afaik only Edge is fully closed - the others all have an open source engine.

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Re:Which open-source web browser do you use on mobile? by orschiro on Sunday June 03, 2018 @01:30PM (#17220609)

I didn't know that. Can you mention a few that come to your mind?

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Re:Which open-source web browser do you use on mobile? by stephenr on Sunday June 03, 2018 @01:37PM (#17220638)

Gecko (Firefox) WebKit(safari) and Blink (chrome) are all open source and essentially have the lions share of web usage between them (both engines and browsers). I’m not even aware of any other remaining rendering engines still active besides whatever replaced Trident (msie) when it became Edge.

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Re:Which open-source web browser do you use on mobile? by navjack27 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:20PM (#17221565)

And edge uses blink

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Re:Which open-source web browser do you use on mobile? by stephenr on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:58AM (#17224787)

Edge actually uses the platform’s engine - on android that’s blink, on iOS it’s webkit and on Windows it’s EdgeHTML.

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Re:Which open-source web browser do you use on mobile? by jwbensley on Sunday June 03, 2018 @02:29PM (#17220933)

DuckDuckGo:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.duckduckgo.mobile.androi...

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Re:Which open-source web browser do you use on mobile? by orschiro on Sunday June 03, 2018 @01:12PM (#17220519)

I'm looking for something lightweight, yet capable of displaying the majority of websites correctly. Any recommendations?

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Re:Which open-source web browser do you use on mobile? by navjack27 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:24PM (#17221596)

Do benchmarks for yourself. I've done this and on my pixel 2.

• Google Chrome 66.0.3359.82 (Blink)

• Google Chrome Canary 66.0.3434.0 (Blink)

• Mozilla Firefox 60.0 (Gecko)

• Mozilla Firefox Nightly 62.0 (Gecko)

• Waterfox 56.0 (Gecko)

• Opera 46.1.2246.127339 (Blink)

• Opera Beta 46.2.2246.127570 (Blink)

• Brave 66.0.3359.158 (Blink)

• Samsung Internet 6.4 (Blink)

• Samsung Internet Beta 7.2 (Blink)

• Microsoft Edge 65.0.3325.109 (Blink)

I'm not going to post the giant table of results but Chrome has the most performance.

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Re:Which open-source web browser do you use on mobile? by orschiro on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:41PM (#17221792)

Thanks! That actually confirms my brief tests where I experienced Chrome to run most smoothly on my Moto G2.

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Re:Which open-source web browser do you use on mobile? by megasquid on Sunday June 03, 2018 @01:21PM (#17220563)

Firefox also.

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Re:Which open-source web browser do you use on mobile? by detaro on Sunday June 03, 2018 @01:15PM (#17220526)

Firefox.

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Re:Which open-source web browser do you use on mobile? by stop5 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @02:23PM (#17220889)

firefox and firefox focus

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Re:Which open-source web browser do you use on mobile? by orschiro on Sunday June 03, 2018 @02:41PM (#17221021)

Can Firefox focus remember logins like on Hacker News, for instance?

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