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.)

    • WhoRoger@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      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.

        • WhoRoger@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          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 Hikari@social.fossware.spaceMEnglish
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            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.

            • WhoRoger@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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              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…