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Report: DOJ wants to force Google Chrome sale, Android de-bundling (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Force Google to use firefox for "webview" on android

Money shot

All that investment hehe

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

This would be so good. As someone who fully switched to Firefox on Android I hate that chrome webview is a thing.

Closest without rooting is to "uninstall updates" to the chrome app in the menu which makes it "APK Stub" instead of Chrome, ans then disabling Android Webview.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This would be so good. As someone who fully switched to Firefox on Android I hate that chrome webview is a thing.

Why does that bother you? There's also a Firefox Webview you can use system-wide. I think only Google apps insists on opening Chrome's webview.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Huh? First time I hear of such a thing. How can I use this Firefox Webview system-wide?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sorry, by looking more into it I realized webview is actually a different thing than what I was thinking about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

No worries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you are fucking with it that much... Have you heard of vanadium?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Only works for Pixels with Graphene

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can't take apk from github?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Vanadium isn't yet officially available for users outside GrapheneOS, although we plan to do that eventually. It won't be able to provide the WebView outside GrapheneOS and will have missing hardening and other features" from their github

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Well damn... Thanks for sharing.

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