So I thought it would finally be smart to find a replacement for Bromite. I picked up Mulch, and after an initial shock (I didn’t think Bromite has that many enhancements for the basic things), I’m still having two main problems:

  1. Using Lemmy as a pwa doesn’t keep me logged in. In the normal browsing mode it works, and so it does in Bromite (incl. pwa). I can’t figure out what I could change. Ideas?

  2. Background video doesn’t play. Or rather, it always pauses when minimising the app, and I need to resume it in the notification. Stupidly annoying. I couldn’t find a solution for this, as most results lead to “Chrome will allow bg video in a beta from 5 years ago” or similar. Can’t it just keep playing? I’m not talking about YouTube btw.

These were the primary things I need a Chromium-based browser for, as FF doesn’t play nice with pwa nor some video sites.

(I don’t feel like installing Brave or similar. I installed Chromium and I booted it after 2 minutes of seeing all the Google crap.)

    • @WhoRogerOPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      I’m not sure I want to use a webview-based browser.

      • Netto HikariMEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Got it. Native Alpha is just specifically made for that and I think, it uses the system’s webview.

        • @WhoRogerOPEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          So I’m now thinking, Jerboa is also a vebview app so it probably doesn’t make much difference, if I’m using them for basically the same thing?

          Hm. I’d still prefer to have a bit more of separation between the system and what’s on a screen. Hardened browsers seem the best for that.

          • Netto HikariMEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            Jerboa is a Webview app? Seems pretty native to me.

            Also, if you’re rooted, you could use something like Webview Manager to use a hardened System Webview, which Native Alpha will then use for PWAs.

            • @WhoRogerOPEnglish
              2•1 year ago

              There’s that bug with forcing some form of keyboard autocorrect and people are saying they can’t do much about it as it’s inherent to WebView. So that’s where I have it from. Maybe I misunderstood.

              And, sigh, no, I’m not rooted…

    • @WhoRogerOPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      I know about that, but they only provide a 64bit binary and my phone is 32bit. (And I don’t have the means to compile myself.)

      Btw the fixed its first problem sorta solved itself. After I launch a pwa and pull down to refresh, it logs me in. On the other hand I need to do it in regular browsing too. I dunno what happened.