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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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I find DuckDuckGo for Android is a decent option, albeit chromium based.
News Flash:
Every single browser for Android has Chromium under the hood... Including Firefox.
For that reason alone is why I'm using Samsung Internet with AdGuard Content Blocker on my Galaxy A series.
Uhh that's not true? Firefox for Android is Gecko based and doesn't use chromium.
Maybe you're confused with iPhones? Firefox for IOS is WebKit based, because that's what apple mandates. That's why it doesn't support extensions. But on android there's no such restrictions.
No. I'm not sure where you've gotten your information from, but that is incorrect. Firefox on my Android phone shows that it's the Gecko engine:
Like the other commenter mentioned, you're probably thinking of iOS where every browser is WebKit under the hood.
Firefox is open source, so if you still feel that you are correct in your assumption, and you can view it here - there is no Chromium code. Also, chrome specific URLs don't work (eg
chrome://flags) which would be in a Chromium based browser such as Brave.Where did you get that misinformation from? I think you may be confusing Android for iOS where all iOS browsers are using WebKit - Safari's engine. That is about to change though.