Is Bromite no longer supported?
Is Bromite no longer supported?
The app hasn't been updated in six months according to F-Droid when I used the official Bromite repo. I mean no disrespect to the Dev I'm just concerned about security vulnerabilities in the browser. Bromite was considered one of the best in the privacy space and I'd hate to see it go. If anybody could shed some light on this that would be great.
Github shows the same: Last commit 5 months ago. Funnily enough, the main dev's last comment was "Nobody quit anything" right after never showing up again.
Uazo, a collaborator of the project, seems to try to bring the project back alive. Even the /e/ Foundation is looking to support his work in order to keep bromite going.
For the future: if possible, consider the bus factor when choosing software:
What happens if <Developer> gets hit by a bus?
I just read through that github thread, seems like uazo isn't super open to discussion with e.foundation
Fennec is a good alternative.
Yeah I've been using Fennec for ages and it works great.
I had the same issue recently, since sometimes you need a chromium-based browser. After some research, I decided to opt for Mulch. It is available on F-Droid through DivestOS repo just as Mull (my main browser).
Discussion about that is here: https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/2610
Also Carl commented here a month ago: https://github.com/bromite/bromite/pull/2561#issuecomment-1557577624
Thanks for the info! I'll be sure to read it.
I am pretty sure the app got abandoned. If you want a nice Chromium based browser I would highly recommend you check out Vivaldi. Their recent interview with Techlore also made me feel much better about them. While I know that Brave is an option, I personally can't bring myself to trust an ad driven for profit company to run my browser. But if you can trust Brave then that is also another great option.
Vivaldi isn't open source tho
The base is open source, only the UI is not, but is source available. https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/
Yep, abandoned. I've just been using vanadium on graphene os.
Get off of bromite asap, theres a few zero days that haven't been patched.
It seems its abandoned. I no longer use bromite on official bromite repo. Instead, I now use this. uazo's bromite. This is uazo's bromite using build tools, and it is being updated and released.
There is someone who has been keeping a fork of it alive: https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools
Go for Kiwi Next browser. Its being maintained.
I use iceraven. It's FOSS and supports extensions, so I use ublock origin, noscript, privacy badger and I don't care about cookies. Basically the best browser you can get.
I've been personally using Mull, which is Firefox-based. Big advantage over Bromite is that it supports add-ons as well!