• Cistello@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Brave is almost the same and Vanadium is better on Grapheme devices I don’t recommend Bromite or even a fork It will probably have the same Update issues like Bromite which makes it a terrible option

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      1 year ago

      He was the developer working on Bromite with csagan, and he was likely not the cause of the delays, since the builds on his repo have been keeping up with Chromium all year. I’ve been using it since Bromite stopped getting updates and it works really well. Brave was my second option because of the fingerprinting protection and adblocking, but they don’t disable JavaScript JIT like Bromite and now Cromite. User script support is also really handy for me

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      1 year ago

      Yes, apparently it has to be on some kind of builtin list of allowed browsers, otherwise it won’t work. But sadly the PR is still stalling…

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      1 year ago

      Bromite hasn’t been touched for 6 months, so this is the opposite of duplicating effort, it’s an effort to save the project!

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      1 year ago

      It’s exactly what you said: improving an existing app. For certain reasons, the original Bromite branding can’t be used and since the original project’s developer is basically left the project, this was the only way: forking and rebranding. The owner of this fork project was one of the main, most active contributors to Bromite anyway, so it should be fine. I wonder, though if there’s going to be a Cromite WebView as well, because I still use the Bromite WebView… Does anybody know?