Good if you need to use Chrome stuff
Cromite is bad browser and shouldnt be used. Use vivaldi or iron fox instead
Cromite including the incredibly sketchy Eyeo content filtering engine and stuff like additional codecs goes against what we’re trying to achieve. We also don’t think the randomization-based anti-fingerprinting approach works, among other issues. We care about implementing things properly instead of rushing to have as long of a feature list as possible at the expense of robustness, privacy, security and maintainability. It probably won’t last with the way they’re taking things.
Source: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/16562-browser-mulch-vs-cromite/13
Great for my tablet which is too weak to run IronFox smoothly. One annoyance is that it’ll insist on a refresh if your internet connection is interrupted or changes in any way. The reason for it is not immediately obvious and neither is the option to turn it off (Settings > Homepage > Ask to restart on connection change)
What happened to bromite?
Project was abandoned like multiple years ago now. Cromite is a fork by one of the contributors and is better than Bromite ever was.
But still based on Chromium? Is that project in itself trustworthy?
pretty good, the built in adblock isn’t much sophisticated tho. fenix with ublock origin is superior unless you really need chromium.
Yeah just noticed people posting about Brave and this has worked as a better “Chrome on hard difficulty” without you know putting ads on the homescreen and coiner meme shit nobody likes
This has been my go-to on GrapheneOS. Glad to see it get some notice.
What make you prefer it to vanadium?
The ability to use a custom search engine (searXNG) and the accessibility/UI features.
I routinely use Cromite and IronFox (closest to LibreWolf for android). Have Brave for logging into accounts with some adjustment and For browser for checking flights or discounts etc.
I’m not really clear on how Brave fares versus regular Chromium or something, but that’s pretty much how I use Android. Technically my default browser is Linksheet, which rules
I’m with you and not perfectly sure that Brave is the best, but I reserve it for my logged in accounts only. IronFox and Cromite both set to private with no history or logs, and used for single use opening of links from Lemmy etc. Trying to isolate / separate third party cookies and tracking as I can. I also use Rethink DNS as firewall and with three filters for whole android device.
It’s easier to use and has built-in ad blocking, nothing more.
But LinkSheet isn’t a browser, is it? Isn’t it just a helper app that lets us decide which browser to use ad hoc?
I have been using this as my daily driver on my Android phone for the past year or so because there is no LibreWolf for Android. No complaints.
I like Iceraven.
Ironfox is good for now. It’s a Mull fork iirc - it’s on Izzyondroid, Obtainium, Accrescent, FFUpdater
I wish it was on flatpak/flathub, favourite chromium browser if I need to use chromium for any reason.
While I agree it would be nice, Flatpak weakens the Chromium sandbox by stopping proper per site isolation. Chromium in Flatpak relies on the zypak server in place of proper strict isolation.
Oh dang I didn’t know
Firefox is even more insecure as a Flatpak than Chromium. At least with Chromium using zypak it can use some Flatpak sandboxing (which is still inferior to base)
i never knew that, i always thought chromium under flatpak was using Chromiums sandbox.
then its better to install any Chromium/electron apps outside of sandbox/flatpak which is hard on majority of distros.
Just use ungoogled. It’s decent enough.
I thought it stopped development a couple years ago on android.
Doesnt come with proper fingerprinting protections or flag hardening. I am not saying ungoogled Chromium is bad, just not a proper replacement for hardened chromium browsers like Cromite or Brave. Ungoogled Chromium is a drop in replacement for Chrome, so it does nearly everything possible to stick with defaults (sans any google connections)
True, but it feels more barbones ngl.
On arch based Chromite isn’t a problem, but on Debian or other distros yeah it is a problem.
why is it bare bones and it doesnt have the features found in chromite:
Ungoogled chromium focuses more on vanilla chromium without Google components
no built in adblock (useful after google killed manifest v3)
No fingerprint blocking
no privacy features
