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Re:Bromite: A Privacy-Enhanced Chromium Fork for Android by feanaro on Sunday February 14, 2021 @04:52PM (#26136615)
I'm curious on some thoughts regarding how this compares with Firefox for Android. I'm a happy user of it. Firefox Sync is particularly nice as it allows me to sync my tabs between the desktop and my phone. I feel like syncing through Mozilla is a distinct advantage than going through Google for privacy reasons.

Taking this into account, are there any advantages of Bromite? Why would someone prefer it over Firefox?

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Re:Bromite: A Privacy-Enhanced Chromium Fork for Android by brmgb on Sunday February 14, 2021 @05:39PM (#26136964)
I used Bromite for a while and went back to Firefox with Ublock. From my experience, the privacy enhancement breaks enough websites to negatively counter balance the compatibility benefit of being Chrome based. Of course, you might view things differently if you actually value said enhancements.
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Re:Bromite: A Privacy-Enhanced Chromium Fork for Android by zamalek on Monday February 15, 2021 @12:23AM (#26139387)
I tried it out but sadly the Android pluggable password managers, so I had to switch back to Firefox for that reason.
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Re:Bromite: A Privacy-Enhanced Chromium Fork for Android by CameronNemo on Sunday February 14, 2021 @05:00PM (#26136666)
Compatibility, better performance

Disclaimer: happy Firefox on android user

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Re:Bromite: A Privacy-Enhanced Chromium Fork for Android by riedel on Sunday February 14, 2021 @05:27PM (#26136865)
It provides a webview. Would love to have a Firefox one.
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Re:Bromite: A Privacy-Enhanced Chromium Fork for Android by eco on Sunday February 14, 2021 @06:22PM (#26137271)
There is GeckoView. It's what the current Firefox is built on and can be used by any Android app as a replacement for web view.
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Re:Bromite: A Privacy-Enhanced Chromium Fork for Android by kbrosnan on Sunday February 14, 2021 @06:41PM (#26137390)
Not quite. It can be used when any app calls the Android custom tab API. It is not a drop in replacement for Android's Webview.

See https://geckoview.dev

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Re:Bromite: A Privacy-Enhanced Chromium Fork for Android by cf100clunk on Monday February 15, 2021 @12:54PM (#26145140)
I prefer a real time choice of browser, so I use Bromite and Bromite System Webview but actually do most of my www activities with Firefox for the benefit of great extensions and the Sync feature. I test Firefox Beta regularly too.
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Re:Bromite: A Privacy-Enhanced Chromium Fork for Android by zecg on Monday February 15, 2021 @08:48AM (#26142680)
The new mobile firefox has no option to save pages anymore. Used to download them into PDF for reading later.
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Re:Bromite: A Privacy-Enhanced Chromium Fork for Android by burundi_coffee on Monday February 15, 2021 @07:58AM (#26142280)
Doesn't firefox for android use goolag analytics?
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