Do you have any plans to push it to F-Droid?<p>That would raise the value of that project quite a lot (at least for me, but I feel like there are others, thinking similarly).<p>Please, push it to F-Droid!
For people looking for a more vanilla experience I'm publishing Google's official extension supporting Chromium builds for Android here <a href="https://github.com/andrewginns/chromium-browser-snapshots-AndroidDesktop_arm64/releases" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/andrewginns/chromium-browser-snapshots-An...</a><p>Combined Obtainium it's easy to keep it updated. <a href="https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium</a>
Ah thought I saw a Helium browser mentioned recently on HN[0] and thought this was the same thing. So this is not the same as this Helium browser [1]?<p>[0]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45366867">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45366867</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://helium.computer/" rel="nofollow">https://helium.computer/</a>
The repository introduces it as indeed based on Helium [0].<p>The cool part about Helium is that it's based on patches, rather than forking the full source code. I don't know how sustainable this is in the long term, but it's an interesting approach for sure.<p>[0]: <a href="https://helium.computer/" rel="nofollow">https://helium.computer/</a>
Not sure what's cool about that. A fork <i>is</i> a patch set, with a ton more ergonomics on top. Passing around sets of patches was what we did before VCSs were common/easy-to-set-up, and it was always brittle and annoying.
Here is a homework for you to see why they do it:<p><pre><code> 1. Checkout Chromium's codebase.
2. Make a commit and see how long it takes.
3. Try to push it to any git hosting service.
</code></pre>
You will discover what's actually brittle and annoying.<p>And yes, being 10s vs 10000s devs in the same repo isn't fun.
Standard practice for Chromium forks. Chromium's repo is huge, slow, and impossible to diff for your changes with 10000s of other commits. Also, painful to host it anywhere.
This is really great work, but can you comment on whether or not any Google-based "safebrowsing", etc is still enabled in the code base?<p>Have you thought about merging your efforts with ungoogled-chromium (Android)?<p>There USED to be an ungoogled-chromium for Android (circa v88 chrome, the APK is still available for download) that also allowed extentions.
I tried installing uBlock Origin but the web store says I have to sign in and enable sync to download it. I didn't want to do that so I tried unpacking the extension .zip from GitHub and loading unpacked, but then the app just crashed.<p>Is extension support only meant to work with a Google account signed in or am I missing something?<p>EDIT: I tried loading the store page in desktop mode but I can't install the non-Lite uBlock Origin, I guess because this Chromium version doesn't support Manifest V2 anymore. I'm still on Kiwi Browser which supports MV2.
Fascinating, I use Firefox because on Android I can use extensions (for this <a href="https://plzat.me" rel="nofollow">https://plzat.me</a>). This is a great alternative.<p>Edit: hard to find where to get this browser. Do I need to build it myself?
With Obtanium you can add the URL (<a href="https://github.com/jqssun/android-helium-browser" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jqssun/android-helium-browser</a>) and it will automatically notify when a new version is available. Kind of like a package manager for GitHub and other sources (for stuff not available on F-Droid).
Click on 'Releases' and you'll see a link to an apk download.
There is Quetta browser that is stable and support extensions on mobile.
Excellent, please make sure you push for financial support in your project.<p>Kiwi was a great browser but has since shutdown. Android needs something like Kiwi that also has a steady income to support itself in future.
Great job on this release! I've been waiting for something like it since my favorite browser, Kiwi, stopped getting updates.<p>Without updates, many sites will likely stop working with it soon.<p>Kiwi had some great features, like disabling AMP mode, rearranging the Chrome Store for mobile, and customizable tab layouts, etc. These features might interest others as well.
It would be really useful if we could sync bookmarks and history with Google's servers.<p>Some Chromium builds has that: <a href="https://chromium.woolyss.com/#google-api-keys" rel="nofollow">https://chromium.woolyss.com/#google-api-keys</a>
I've been looking for a Kiwi Browser replacement since it stopped updating. I'll check this out.
Curious how it compares to Brave browser on Android
this is great. I miss extensions in android browser. That existing extensions from web store would work out of the box is cherry on top.
Yet another Chromium clone, we should create a Distrowatch site for Chrome.
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