I want opensource browsers based on chromium

Mate, even well talking about chrome is supporting. :laughing:
Don’t want DuckDuckGo?

That is a webview-based browser is it not?

Yes it is and if I would choose any chromium derivative I would DDG.

It has some interesting features, it’s lean but mean. I’m keeping it as a backup browser and comparison.
See it’s install apk size. 3,5 less than Vivaldi, 3x less than brave. :grin: No bloatware.

I"m a fan of webview-based browsers and use them quite often (like Fulguris, Privacy Browser, even jQuarks) for hit-and-run tasks.
Fast, light, they get the job done.

Lightning is best in all of these. For basics. jQuarks is second in line for me.

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I do not think that DuckDuckGo is a webview-based browser. I think that it is a chromium fork in its own right.


Just moments ago DDG test Speed mark.
To compare Firefox is 7,X and half of that with Dark reader enabled.

Isn’t it dead?

Nope. It is not. It uses the latest WV, and you can see Anthony is very much up & running the project. Some of us are asking him to release a newer version.

Please enlighten me: how many time you spare on that? May be in percent.

Lightning in f-droid latest version is from 2019 and looks like crap.

Used to use it a lot back in the day but way outdated now. Fulguris is a fork (over a year since last update but still a fave).

Is and has always been.

I assume you mean ā€œspendā€?
Actually a very big percentage. I’m not a spend-time-in-a-browser kind of person. I’ll fire up the browser to get whatever info I need and get out so something like Fulguris is used daily and often.
Main browser on the phone where I would do the most browsing and need to make use of some addon is Iceraven.

Here, for forum reading and other things like Wikipedia, I actually use Toby Kurien’s WebApps. For years now. Just because.

Btw. Can’t find a post where someone, possibly Lycaon, stated that Iceraven is just a puzzle of precompiled by Mozilla.
What about Fennec?

what about Fennec: metadata/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid.yml Ā· master Ā· F-Droid / Data Ā· GitLab ?