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I want to find or contribute to an open source Android app that behaves as a browser so that I can incorporate saving web pages to a specified (self-hosted) wallabag docker instance. Any suggestions?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Mull browser from F-Droid is a great option, especially if Firefox is your main browser on your computer. It's one of the few mobile browsers with the ability to use extensions, so hopefully this will make utilizing the wallabag extension easier to pull off.

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

+1 for Mull. Been using it for months now with no issue after switching from Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What are some of the advantages over the Android Firefox mobile browser? Is it basically a Firefox fork with stricter privacy policies?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ya, it's a hardened mobile Firefox. I've never used Firefox on mobile, just Mull, so I'm not too sure on the specific differences.

[–] Klaymore 5 points 1 year ago

I just use Firefox on my phone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I use Bromite from Fdroid and love it. It has a builtin Ad blocker and is basically a degoogled chrome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, love me some Privacy Browser. JavaScript being disabled by default (which is easy to toggle on/off) is certainly a great feature.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've used ice raven and mull!

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

If Firefox doesn't work out I'll give this a chance. Thanks.

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

Hi there, for years I've been using Fenec from F-Droid.

Think a fully featured modern Firefox, but 100% Free and Open Source

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Firefox (Fennec on F-Droid) It does support extensions, but they have to be made with mobile support. Tampermonkey works already i think

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

You can add unsupported extensions by using custom add-on collection.

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

I'm seeing a lot of love for Firefox in here, so I'll give that a shot. Thanks for all of the suggestions!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I use KiwiBrowsed but i want to switch to fennec because the chromium base of kiwi is bothering me. The only thing that is preventing me from switching is the speed of fennec. Its just not as fast as kiwi.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Brave, after almost 2 decades of being a Firefox user. But for me Firefox began sucking more and more something like 2 years ago, so I switched browsers on all my devices. No complaints.

Ah, I forgot the mandatory "Fuck Mozilla!"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used brave and brave search. But then brave search added ads and a pro subscription for 2.99$ to just get rid of the ads. So back to firefox for me.

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

You can block Brave's ads with Brave itself, by setting Shields to "aggressive". Other than that, you can use a different search engine in Brave. I really don't see the problem here.