Bromite: A Privacy-Enhanced Chromium Fork for Android

I&#x27;m curious on some thoughts regarding how this compares with Firefox for Android. I&#x27;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.<p>Taking this into account, are there any advantages of Bromite? Why would someone prefer it over Firefox?

Bromite needs extension support and it becomes the perfect browser for Android. Unfortunately the maintainer does not want that on his plate, and is willing to pull extension support so long as someone else maintains that part of the project. Understandable of course.<p>Kiwi Browser is open source and does have extension support, so the heavy lifting is done. It would be nice if someone picked this problem up and maintained it.

Personally I use Firefox with Ghostery on Android. I&#x27;ll use this for YouTube instead of the official client and it works pretty well. Videos are much better without every 5 mins of video serving up an ad.

Just did a quick test, and Bromite fixes what I find an extremely annoying &#x27;feature&#x27; of firefox...<p>i.e. when you back away from a page - back to the home screen - firefox leaves the tab open. Bromite (correctly IMHO) closes the session. I really dislike the ff behaviour enough to switch!

If you use this on android it won&#x27;t pull your bookmarks out of chrome. To get your bookmarks, go to a PC, export your bookmarks (nearly impossible to export on android) and then drop into online storage like Drive. Then go back to your andriod &gt; Drive &gt; download bookmarks.html file, open Bromite &gt; bookmarks &gt; Import &gt; point to downloaded .html file

An Android device rooted with Magisk can easily be reconfigured with the Bromite System Webview module. This replaces standard Chrome Webview in all www access cases not specifically handled by the user&#x27;s browser. It is the logical step to fully replace Chrome with Bromite.

Now as we have a free Chromium build on Mobile, can we also have extensions support? AFAIK original Chrome has extensions support built-in but disabled at build time. Yandex has built a fork with extensions enabled but it seems even less trustworthy than Google itself.

I use Brave[1] on my Android device. It is also a fork from Chromium, and it also comes with ad-blocking&#x2F;privacy features.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brave.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brave.com&#x2F;</a>

I was very impressed with its anti fingerprinting measures. Also the always incognito function is excellent.

Is this any better than Vanadium?

I love this app so much. Currently I use an iPhone 12 Pro and a Pixel 4a.

Why would I want to use this over Kiwi with uBlock Origin and whatnot?

Anything based on Chromium is vulnerable to all specialised fingerprinting techniques such as this one <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;niespodd.github.io&#x2F;persistent-tracking-shader-cache&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;niespodd.github.io&#x2F;persistent-tracking-shader-cache&#x2F;</a> and many others that I listed here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;niespodd&#x2F;browser-fingerprinting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;niespodd&#x2F;browser-fingerprinting</a><p>Some parts of Chromium seem to be intentionally exposing fingerprinting surfaces and, because its changing quickly with new features and addons, keeping up with patches like Bromite does is incredibly challenging task