1. Enable developer mode on your Android phone.
  2. Download Webview Beta/Developer.
  3. Change the webview version you are using to beta from the developer settings.
  4. Install Berry browser for your casual browsing ( configure it at high security and privacy settings).
  5. Install Fulguris browser for the websites that require Low/med privacy and security settings.
  6. Set your default browser as Berry browser.

I thought I share this here for people who like the UI of Firefox but hate it’s performance and like chrome performance but hate its UI.

In case you wanted to use any web apps, you can use Native Alpha app.

Please comment if you know of any light(under 20mb) browsers that has good UI, to improve my current setup even further.

  • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    18·
    20 hours ago

    The best way to browse on your Phone is on Firefox with its massive collection of extensions (that arent neutered to google’s liking).

    Firefox’s not perfect or the fastest, but I can wait a few ms for it to be actually useful.

  • Blake (he/him) @beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    I thought I share this here for people who like the UI of Firefox but hate it’s performance and like chrome performance but hate its UI.

    That’s pretty specific. What kinds of things are you doing that are impacting performance? Never had that issue with any mobile browser

  • limerod@reddthat.comMEnglish
    3·
    21 hours ago

    Why not use Privacy Browser? Its Foss and has many settings to limit the amount of information being sent by default. Firefox may not be super fast but still does the job much better with addons like Ublock-origin Also, most people do not hate the UI. Rather the tracking from google.

    I would also be careful with using closed webview based apps since you won’t know if they sellout untill a ad update gets pushed to you. Here’s a post by Privacy web author about one such email: https://www.stoutner.com/stoutner-will-never-sell-privacy-browser-to-a-scummy-company/

    https://f-droid.org/packages/com.stoutner.privacybrowser.standard/

      • limerod@reddthat.comMEnglish
        2·
        18 hours ago

        Yeah, but its Foss and also unlike berry browser limits the amount of requests and information being sent to minimal at the cost of even breaking function by default.

        I recommend firefox or fennec from fdroid but you can use Privacy browser if you want a webview version.

          • limerod@reddthat.comMEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            ironFox principally

            Curious why?

            I took a brief look and found some experience breaking changes like no dark mode and a general don’t do this since it can be a privacy risk even at the cost of speed which firefox has not been known for ages.

            Some points which I observed:

            • Dark Reader is known to be incompatible with IronFox’s changes and will cause significant breakage/slowdowns.

            • Dark mode for websites is disabled due to resist fingerprinting. Please do not disable RFP.

            • IronFox disables the JavaScript JIT to increase security at the cost of slowing down webapps, complex websites, and the PDF viewer. Navigate to about:config and change javascript.options.ion and javascript.options.baselinejit to true to restore their performance, though this is not recommended.

            • IronFox has strict certificate revocation checks. The CA revocation servers are occasionally down/blocked/inaccessible, so you may see a “Secure Connection Failed” error from time to time. Navigate to about:config and change security.OCSP.require to false, this is however a security and privacy risk.

            • IronFox requires safe renegotiation for connections. Certain websites do not support this and will result in a “Secure Connection Failed” error. Please report these errors to the impacted websites. You can navigate to about:config and set security.ssl.require_safe_negotiation to false to disable the requirement for safe renegotiations, this is however a security and privacy risk

            • IronFox has stripped referrers. This often breaks loading of images on websites with hotlink protection. Navigate to about:config and change network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy from 2 to 1 (or 0 if you’re still having issues), this is however a privacy risk.

            • IronFox has visited link highlighting disabled by default. Navigate to about:config and change layout.css.visited_links_enabled to true if needed, this is however a privacy risk

            • merde alors@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              2 hours ago

              i was using Mull before “forking” to ironFox.

              uBlock is there to block all JavaScript and 3rd party.

              i’m aware of most of what you wrote but i choose security over usability for a default browser.

      • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        20 hours ago

        it is. I remember the dev talking about releasing their own fork of the webview that’s privacy oriented.

        This was years ago. Hasn’t been released yet.