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Hi
Bromite is a really cool browser but they don't provide updates properly (Last update was on Dec 20, 2022) and Brave is too bloated for me to use and it has some UI glitches.

Is there any browser that's kinda similar to Bromite or at least Chrome?

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    [deleted] or at least Chrome?

    I mean, excluding Vanadium.

      For chrome based, after vanadium, Brave is your best option. I strongly recommend that you go through its settings and get it working for yourself.

      Bromite seems abandoned.

      There is also chromium, but chromium is not properly degoogled and has no privacy features.

      There are also firefox based options. Best of them is Mull i think. There are more, do a bit of research on it to see which one you like. Fennec is another option, but i think mull is best.

      Between Vanadium, brave, and mull, i doubt you'll need more browsers.

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        User2288 but chromium is not properly degoogled and has no privacy features.

        Chromium does have privacy features (Install official Google's deriative Chrome and Check them yourself, there are a lot of them), but Browsers like Brave obviously have more privacy features. As for degoogling, Lord Google can already grant/revoke runtime permissions on my device, therefore I do not need to degoogle just my browser.

        SCREENSHOT

          Talking about browsers, can we add "addons" on Valadium? Like noscript or umatrix?

            As [deleted] says, you can't.

            Also note the following from the GrapheneOS documentation: https://grapheneos.org/usage#:~:text=We%20recommend%20against,and%20security%20features.

            We recommend against trying to achieve browser privacy and security through piling on browser extensions and modifications. Most privacy features for browsers are privacy theater without a clear threat model and these features often reduce privacy by aiding fingerprinting and adding more state shared between sites. Every change you make results in you standing out from the crowd and generally provides more ways to track you. Enumerating badness via content filtering is not a viable approach to achieving decent privacy, just as AntiVirus isn't a viable way to achieving decent security. These are losing battles, and are at best a stopgap reducing exposure while waiting for real privacy and security features.

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              nodsocket Well I can't use it because of some UI glitches, They don't even respond on their community/discussion forum.

                italian_job

                So is this the full continuation of bromite with its adblocking and other enhancements? Does it continually implement chrome updates?

                Or is it a custom build for uses other than regular use?

                The page description is not clear what the project is.

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                    User2288 Uazo just makes his own builds of Bromite on that repo, and Uazo was a contributor to the main Bromite repo too

                      v114.0.5735.199-e98862df61c0c2244b4bedb51af13d661affdf53

**this is not the official release of bromite but a test version.
you can try it at your own risk.**

                      Personally I wouldn't risk to use it

                      gonzalo it doesn't look like uMatrix is still maintained. You should migrate to uBlock instead (also made by Ray Hill) in your desktop browsers.

                          Hb1hf umatrix it's to block js and other stuff, ublock just ads no? Or now has all the features?

                              gonzalo no!

                              On uBO settings, clicking on "I am an advanced user" activates what they call "medium mode". It opens a window similar to that of uMatrix, when you click on the extension's icon - a bit simplified I think. It has all JS, frames and images allowed by default and you have to deny one by one.

                              There's also hard mode, which is when you disable everything by default globally, then have to allow one by one.

                              Mullvad Browser (which is Tor Browser minus the Tor network) comes with just uBO and NoScript - uBO for ads, and NoScript with scripts allowed, because it's still the best protection against cross site script attacks. You can use uBO on hard mode for safety, as it reduces the attack surface, at the cost of privacy (because it increases your fingerprint)

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