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WebLibre, a gecko based browser. I am liking it a lot so far. (docs.weblibre.eu)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by guismo@aussie.zone to c/android

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I saw it on f-droid news and I'm surprised I haven't heard anything about it. Probably because it's new.

Most other browsers are Firefox forks, but if I understand this one only uses the engine. As such most other ones feel like just slightly different Firefox versions. But this one is very different, and I'm liking a lot! Many things on the UI are easier to use and many options I don't see in Firefox. I specially like the options it give before you first use (search engine, ublock, block or not AI).

It's also a lot faster, because I blocked many samsung services on my phone like face recognition and Firefox becomes super slow without it (Fennec keeps crashing).

The only thing I don't like so far is that I don't see how to hide the URL bar for fullscreen, and typing a URL is very weird in the middle of a bunch of options (very welcome options, but URL typing should be prioritized).

I highly recommend giving it a go. Specially the chromium browser people. I never experienced the complaints I see from them before blocking services on my phone, but those who had issues with Firefox clones might find that it's better.

One question I have is how trustworthy is the developer. But he seems to not be based in the US, which is a big plus to begin with.

Are there other communities I should post this on? I think this project would benefit from more exposure.

I don't see any donation option. And it's annoying that the only communication is through microsoft's github..

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[–] guismo@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

That's interesting to see the opinion of a chromium user. And nice thing you checked about the google connections. This is a good thing to know as that was worrying me.

After using it for a while as a main browser I did find a bunch of bugs. Mainly that often I can't go back to the previous page at all and some stuff like images on manga websites are downloading way slower than on firefox, I don't know why. It's not the browser being slow, it's the download being slow.

I figured I'll wait until it's more stable. It could be my phone because I have issues with Firefox too. But if the only way to report bugs is a microsoft account I'll leave it to other people.