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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 14:43:09 JST clacke

   FFUpdater:
   

   > Bromite
   > The browser is no longer maintained

   
   Oh no.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 17:03:44 JST clacke

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     No official announcement on bromite.org/ but yes, Bromite v108 came out 7 months ago, whereas Mulch v115 and Mull v115 came out in the last two weeks. Maybe the FFUpdater team decided on their own to flag it for inactivity.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 17:03:46 JST clacke

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     Iceraven v2.7.0 came out two weeks ago, I'm happy I still have a Gecko browser.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 17:03:47 JST clacke

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     There are basically two contributors. csagan5 is the maintainer and then there's uazo.

     Reading between the lines it seems csagan5 is having life interfering with Bromite. They made a draft PR in January for v109, surfaced in May to say they'd update it to some later version and then went below the radar again.[0]

     uazo has been releasing up-to-date test builds at github.com/uazo/bromite-buildt… where the latest is v115 and says "Please note: this is the last release, the next one will be in github.com/uazo/cromite"[1]

     [0] github.com/bromite/bromite/pul…
     [1] github.com/uazo/bromite-buildt…

     #bromite

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 17:04:02 JST clacke

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     cromite.org is "Sito in costruzione".

     github.com/uazo/cromite says "**** Work in progess **** // Cromite (a Bromite fork)".

     There is a release v115.0.5790.136[0] from this week and the E Foundation are commenting and saying their CI (gitlab.e.foundation) can build it in 25 minutes, whereas Cromite's CI (Github Actions) takes over 13 hours. They're offering mirroring. Sounds like #cromite has a promising future.

     [0] github.com/uazo/cromite/issues…

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 17:05:41 JST clacke

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     • chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER
     @a13cui Sure, we have Mull and Mulch already, but Bromite is the one that has been working for me on sites where Mull doesn't, so I'm happy there's a successor.
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     chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER (a13cui@emacs.ch)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 17:05:43 JST chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER

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     @clacke oh wow, yet ANOTHER "privacy focused Chromium-based browser", it sure is a new concept

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 17:06:08 JST clacke

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     • chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER
     @a13cui It's not. Thank you. That's the main difference between Mull and Mulch.
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     chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER (a13cui@emacs.ch)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 17:06:09 JST chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER

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     @clacke how is Mull Chromium-based?

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 17:06:10 JST clacke

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     • chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER

     So, we have Mulch and it doesn't come with any default content blocking, which Bromite/Cromite does.

     divestos.org/pages/browsers

     @a13cui

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     chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER (a13cui@emacs.ch)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 17:17:51 JST chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER

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     @clacke I suppose someone had to step up and bring Bromite back from the dead since it's EOL

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 17:17:52 JST clacke

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     • chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER
     @a13cui Yeah sadly Gecko browsers don't work with HK restaurant menus. 😐
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     chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER (a13cui@emacs.ch)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 17:17:53 JST chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER

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     @clacke I immediately feel suspicious of any Chromium-based browsers ever since Brave and Kiwi Browser came into the scene (my 10+ year history with FF might've contributed to my bias, methinks). Also there's Iceraven and Fennec too on the Mozilla side, as well as the underrated Privacy Browser even though that one's somehow based on a fork of WebKit.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 17:28:46 JST clacke

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     So I want one browser that can handle 400 fedi tabs. That's Mulch.

     And then I want a browser that I always run in private mode as my default browser and that's now Cromite.

     I don't see a whole lot of alternatives actually.

     I open non-fedi links on fedi in Mull, which is also always in private mode.

     Iceraven ... sadly has fallen out of use as it can't handle my many tabs and will OOM if I open Pleroma.

     The tab groups in Mulch have significantly improved my fedi life.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 17:28:46 JST clacke

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     I don't find SystemView browsers very interesting.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 17:52:31 JST clacke

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     @a13cui I think the answer is obvious: Dedicated apps don't have 400 tabs. 🤣

     Fedi is a web and it creates more exponential browsing than even Wikipedia.

     I see a conversation with a gold comment from a person I'm not currently following. Tab. Their home timeline is full of nuggets. Tab tab tab. Go to the tabs, search those URLs on my home server for interaction.

     But only after I finish reading this thread. Oh look, a squirrel! I wonder which species of squirrel is the most common in Wales? Tab.

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     chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER (a13cui@emacs.ch)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 17:52:33 JST chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER

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     @clacke I would like to ask you why do you open Fedi tabs in a mobile browser instead of a dedicated mobile app such as Tusky and why would you need *400* tabs? It feels like a highly unusual workflow

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 17:52:33 JST clacke

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     I guess Firefox and Chrome aligning their versions is why I confused myself into forgetting that Mull is Gecko.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 19:47:42 JST clacke

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     • chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER

     @a13cui Tabs all the way. I actually look at the tabs and they go away when I close them. They are The Thing instead of a thing that takes me to The Thing. =)

     I'm just Tabs Brain 4 Lyfe.

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     chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER (a13cui@emacs.ch)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2023 19:47:45 JST chsh -s /usr/bin/pwsh $USER

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     @clacke but dedicated apps have bookmarks ;)

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     Desikner (desikn@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Aug-2023 23:29:58 JST Desikner

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     @clacke They have their own F-Droid repo still in alpha under https://www.cromite.org/fdroid/repo but it doesn't have the latest build.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 21-Aug-2023 23:29:59 JST clacke

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     I have been using #cromite for 3 weeks now without any issues. It is not on FFUpdater or F-Droid, but it has its own update mechanism.