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13 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 0 stories, 13 comments · first 2019-04-25 · latest 2020-05-06

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  1. …and support extensions. Recently the developer also make it open source. Shout out to the devs. https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android
  2. I did not mention Bromite at all, what are you talking about? There is no FUD here, let me write down some facts for you: * users install Kiwi which does not contain all the security fixes of upstream stable Chromium (v81); this is been…
  3. It had a GitHub repo ( https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android ) described as "source code used in Kiwi", but it was just a Chromium codebase thrown there without the actual patches. Glad to see it's open source now however there is no…
  4. It is not and has never been, see https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android/issues/12#issuecommen...
  5. …there is no explicit intention to derail it (and no advantage), just incorrect netiquette. [0]: https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android/issues/12#issuecommen...
  6. …interesting/relevant links: - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowse... - https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android The main (current?) caveat with the extension support is that you have to manually download and poke…
  7. …code (even though not fully open-source as said above) so trust me and install me" thing. [1]: https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android/issues/30
    comment by iokanuon · 2019-07-09 · in Firefox 68.0
  8. Thanks! I'm investigating it and sadly it seems a bit stale with last commit made 5 months ago: https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android For browsers this seems like a bit too long without updates. I can imagine maintaining such project is…
    comment by hu3 · 2019-07-09 · in Firefox 68.0
  9. …open source like open in open source. It is a common myth and misconception about Kiwi Browser. https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android/issues/30 There's NewPipe at F-Droid for youtube music in the background and so much more.
  10. …is a Chromium fork, but is it or is it not open source? I see that there's a repo on GitHub: https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android But the status of the code is unclear (the readme just says it's unsupported), and the last public commit…
  11. https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android/issues/30#issuecommen... I guess thats true XDA indicates "progressively open source" whatever that means https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-kiwi...
  12. https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android Literally the first link on DDG
  13. …to where he forked chromium (there may be an artifact in the source tree that would help however) - https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android/releases .