Bromite is dead, long live Cromite.
GitHub - uazo/cromite: Cromite a Bromite fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!
The Bromite project has been inactive for the last 9 months or so. Today I found this fork of Bromite that's well maintained and seems to work flawlessly. Hope it helps others who were looking for a replacement.
Why waste your time with this when Firefox exists?
I want to use Firefox on Android, but it's simply not there yet. It's noticeably slower, some sites have broken layout, and I kinda hate their tan management system. I still have it installed, and willing to switch if it's capable enough, but sadly it's not.
It's the best browser on desktop though, by far.
Thank goodness someone picked up the project and released a fork. The browser is too good to be abandoned.
Mulch?
That's another good alternative.
F-Droid release is long overdue
Yes. I'm currently using their own f-droid repo. I might just keep using it even when the official repo is available, since f-droid is notorious for slow updates.
I'm using it rn. has the same bromite simplicity and smoothness with extra features
Kiwi is the only android browser for me, being able to access all the standard desktop addons is game changing, like damn.
I’ve not followed this scene a lot. Has chrome effectively killed off uBlock?
It does work on desktop afaik. Not sure why they decided to go with ABP instead.
Are they including kiwi's extensions support? I know Bromite and others would not maintain it.
Not yet. But there's experimental support for userscripts.
There is an open issue for JPEG-XL support. Once Cromite adopts JXL, I'd be willing to switch over
Mulch can also be said to be another spiritual successor to Bromite since it's also supposed to be hardened against threats.
I don't understand why bromite can't sync to chrome pc? Anyone?
It's not in the dev's hands. There may be some workarounds, but Google discourages against using them.