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[WebApp] XDA TV v1.3

XDA TV v1.3​
Now you can have all the XDA TV videos wherever you go using this web application.
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"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
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After that tweet from azrienoch this sunday I've started to work on a webapp version of the XDA TV application. It uses WebKit, so in theory Android, iOS, Windows Phone 7, modern desktop browsers, Symbian will handle it correct, if it doesn't please report me the problems/bugs with screenshots(if needed) and a good description.
I've tried to get the app in the App Store, but Apple rejected it
The technologies used on this application:
iScroll
jQuery
HTML5
My knowledge
Running in my iPod:
Running in my iPad:
Get me to the app!
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PS: If you're having problems with that page(which is a redirector that checks for the screen size to send you to the appropriated version, tablet or phone, you might use this other links for the tablet and the phone versions
Please fell free to donate and help me with the high server costs, which hosts the XDA TV videos for the XDA TV App streaming. Seriously, the server costs are getting pretty high:
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Changelog:
v1.3:
* WebApp released!

Amazing!
Will write about it

Thanks very much for the support

It's darn slow to load the page. Can't run videos.
Expecting updates
It would be nice to have an app for each of the mobile platforms...

This will be great! Right now it doesn't work so good with ie9 wp7 mango. I can't scroll on first page. When I press on one link I only see back button and upper left corner of the movie frame (it's zoomed in I think and I can't scroll). If I press video it starts playing so that is working.
Thanks for sharing, hopefully you can fix it Best of luck!

I'm working on that, the WP7 browser (IE9) has a lot of incompatibilities with WebKit(as usual from Microsoft...)

Its not Microsofts fault.
Its yours.
The webapp only works in WebKit browsers.
It doesn't work very well in any other browser.
Not in Firefox, not in Opera, not in IE.
I have seen some errors in your CSS.
I haven't seen the JS yet.

awsome will download this right away

irendwer said:
Its not Microsofts fault.
Its yours.
The webapp only works in WebKit browsers.
It doesn't work very well in any other browser.
Not in Firefox, not in Opera, not in IE.
I have seen some errors in your CSS.
I haven't seen the JS yet.
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Ok, WebKit browsers are dominating the mobile market, Android and iOS use them, and latest version of Firefox works with my code, Chrome does too, IE historically has a lot of problems and incompatibilities.
For me what I think is that you never tried to develop web apps for multiple browsers and felt into the nightmare of IE!

I imagine it is much the same as windows mobile...they set some standards and then change their mind and break it all.

Samsung Galaxy S (stock v2.3.3)and XDA TV Dark Edition
Installed it today and seems cannot close it anywhere. Back button doesn't do anything and neither Menu.

What? You can't close a webapp?
EDIT: Ahh, you're talking about the XDA TV app, but at the wrong thread. I'm trying to work around that problem, but it seems to insist. At the time you need to kill the app using a task manager if it's wasting your battery that much.

nathanpc said:
Ok, WebKit browsers are dominating the mobile market, Android and iOS use them, and latest version of Firefox works with my code, Chrome does too, IE historically has a lot of problems and incompatibilities.
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Okay... so you are using a lot of Webkit specific things...
and you really are wondering why IE has problems?
This is too funny....
nathanpc said:
For me what I think is that you never tried to develop web apps for multiple browsers and felt into the nightmare of IE!
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I am a webdeveolper. I've made a lot of websites and applications.
So id do know how hard i can be to make things work in every browser. Thats whzy i do know that the problem is in your code! I had a look in the html-file and in the css and i have found a few errors.
Maybe something like this could help you: validator.w3.org

It works everywhere except for IE. Those aren't errors, but incompatibility issues with the Microsoft fragmentation in IE.
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nathanpc said:
It works everywhere except for IE. Those aren't errors, but incompatibility issues with the Microsoft fragmentation in IE.
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No. It does not. It isn't working in Opera Mobile on Android.
It doesn't work very well on a desktop firefox and on other desktop browsers.
It work ONLY in webkit browsers.
You can casll it what ever you want. IE (and other browsers) aren't doing anything wrong.
You are using stuff that works only in webkit. So it's not a incompatibility in IE or something.
It's a incompatibility in your webapp.
Use standard HTML, CSS and JS and it should work on IE!

This is having the same problems as the android application. It's not showing any of the more recent videos of the last couple of months.

Sorry, I've been working hard and also trying to completely redesign the XDA TV app so I can't update the feed, but I'll try to do it today.
Sorry

great S/W....iwill try

Just updated the app feed. My hands hurt after copying, pasting and wget'ing all those videos

Excellent.
Perhaps with a few mods we can generate a script directly from the Xda Podcast util.
I think I updated it a while back to generate a python script (to drive the youtube fetching script) from a Youtube user feed. The GUI isn't too obvious as I was quickly seeing if it would work or not, so might see if I can improve it.
Unfortunately I had problems getting python to run on my budget tablet I intended to use with it, so not done any more on it.

PLEASE Lets get Flash Player actually working for 4.4/Nexus 5

Here is the thing,,,
Flash Player don't not work no mo...
With that said.
I have tried the following:
Downloaded Android flash 11.1 - Fail
Tried an Older Version of Dolphin Browser - Fail
Tried uninstalling and reinstalling - Fail
What is goal?
I really.. REALLY Want to get amazon videos working via the browser...
I even tried the Amazon videos apk file and it does install on to the phone and you can open it, but it is not operational... fail.
Amazons site will keep requesting that I install flash player to view movies , yet on my 2.3/2.2 version Photon 4G that function works perfectly.
Now I know their have been small attempts , but I really wanna get the ball rolling on this.
Help please.

Try using Flashfox browser.
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On my Nexus 4, I used Flash Player with Firefox just fine.

Photon Browser... It will even let me stream Hulu, I hate the adds but it works...

MohJee said:
Try using Flashfox browser.
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NOPE still won't work.
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"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

godgib said:
Photon Browser... It will even let me stream Hulu, I hate the adds but it works...
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Photon Browser is.... so... broken. It barely works and make the Nexus 5 seem like a slow piece of crap!

Bump..
Bump... Is there nothing else ?

Well... Flash support has been dropped since 4.1. Some browsers have been working until now but it seems Google has decided against flash for good. I think we won't see flash on 4.4 at least until browsers get updated...
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Firefox indeed works with Flash player on Nexus 4, and on SGS2 with CM10.2.
I wish I had my N5 to test it.

Have you tried boat browser?

DeXel55 said:
Firefox indeed works with Flash player on Nexus 4, and on SGS2 with CM10.2.
I wish I had my N5 to test it.
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No, it doesn't work on the N5 with KitKat at the moment.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

puffin browser
I can confirm that flash is working on my nexus 5 when using the paid version of puffin web browser (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cloudmosa.puffin&hl=en), I dont know about the free version, I believe it has a trial to it. I tested with a few random games from miniclip and flash works. Give it a try OP

Have you tried lightning browser? It is supposed to support flash and is light on resources to boot.

LaytonxGyakuten said:
I can confirm that flash is working on my nexus 5 when using the paid version of puffin web browser (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cloudmosa.puffin&hl=en), I dont know about the free version, I believe it has a trial to it. I tested with a few random games from miniclip and flash works. Give it a try OP
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Puffin is a cloud browser. You're not technically running flash, its just that Puffin's servers are streaming it to you. IMHO, the quality isn't the same.
I too can't get flash to work on N5, but works on my N4, N7, N10, & G2. Probably not going to update those to Kit Kat if flash don't work.

I've been watching live sports via flash streams using the Photon Browser. It's a little quirky and has a lot of ads, but it gets the job done.

AdamUpNorth said:
No, it doesn't work on the N5 with KitKat at the moment.
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Looks like KitKat completely broke flash.

Fix
DeXel55 said:
Looks like KitKat completely broke flash.
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There must be a fix, Flash was one of the reasons I went with android to begin with. Being able to play flash content when you need it is essential!

dinc4g said:
There must be a fix, Flash was one of the reasons I went with android to begin with. Being able to play flash content when you need it is essential!
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Agreed!

Has anyone tried installing Flash and Dolphin Browser and then deleted the preferences file for Dolphin? That's the fix I used on my Nexus 4 and has worked forever since. For some reason my N4 now seems to have lost root so can't get into the data folder to see where the file is exactly. I'll have a go tonight once I have my N5 and rooted it.
No idea what's going on with my N4, think it's feeling replacement depression and rebelling against me haha!

Try Puffin, a cloud rendering browser, here's the trial version:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cloudmosa.puffinFree

Word wrap complaints in Kit Kat?

I'm surprised not a lot of people are complaining about this.
I switched to Kit Kat (CM11) on my Nexus 4. Everything was working out perfectly. Some features that were in 10.2 were not there, but no biggie; I figured it takes time to port everything.
Then, I opened my browser (Dolphin HD), and noticed that word wrap was not working. Odd.
So I tried Firefox. No word wrap. Getting pissed at this point. So I try AOSP (built in browser). Still no go. Word wrap ONLY works in Opera (of course), with the word wrap option enabled.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62378
Googling it, it looks like Google actually regressed instead of progressed. How the heck do you take something as fundamental as word wrapping and remove support for it from the OS in the name of "progress"? If you read the bug thread on Google, they claim it's "WAI", which is Working As Intended.
Please.
This user put it best.
Are you google people purposely pretending not to understand the problem? Is this some diversionary tactic to avoid acknowledging that you've broken something?
One more time just in case you really don't understand. We are talking about TEXT WRAPPING. In the old browser when you zoom a page to a legible size, the text reflows so that you don't have to scroll from side to side. Saying that it "works as intended" is saying "yes, we removed a vital feature for no reason, too bad".
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This is actually a deal breaker for me, so I simply restored a nandroid of CM10.2, and everything works great.
What do you guys think about this? Again, I'm slightly taken aback that not more people are complaining about this. It's sort of a fundamental thing in mobile OS acceptance.

Hey man, I'm sorry you miss that feature. Text reflow on zoom like how it used to work really broke a lot of webpages. The chrome browser is pretty smart with its auto-zoom by double tap, but it won't reflow the text fields.
I'm sorry that it messed up your use case so badly, but I'm glad that we have root on our phones and can load the software that works best for us. FWIW, I think the Opera Android browser is pretty serviceable compared to Dolphin HD, which is also not a bad browser.

What the hell is word wrap?

BoneXDA said:
What the hell is word wrap?
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Its when the words render to fit the page instead of zooming in and out like you do now.
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bladebuddy said:
Its when the words render to fit the page instead of zooming in and out like you do now.
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You mean like text reflow? Dolphin with Jetpack does that although not every single webpage supports it.
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"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
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"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
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Yes that's what the OP was saying. A lot more browsers use to do this including stock before the KK update.
Doesn't bother me so much as a small screen isn't good for web browsing at the best of times, it does however seem a step backwards from Google though.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Text reflow does come with some chaos though, flicking a bit upon each zoom and resetting, dolphin always seemed to be the most stable doing it. It's also the all-around most feature rich AND fluid browser out there, especially on ART.

I agree that word wrap/text reflow implmentation on Android isn't perfect, but it's almost essential to browsing on devices like ours.
Dolphin has Jetpack integrated by default for KitKat. I can confirm that even though this is the case, and that Jetpack is explicitly enabled in Dolphin browser settings, it does not work at all. Zooming in then double tapping simply zooms out to the extent of the largest content (text or images) displayed on the screen. Doing the same thing (zooming in, then double tapping) on previous Android OSes (Jelly Bean, etc.) forces a word wrap.

[DISCUSSION] Your favourite material design apps?

I've been finding a few solid apps that follow the Material Design theme and here are a few that I use
Music = Shuttle Music Player
Notepad = Notes by Jacob Ras
SMS = Google Messenger
Unit converter = S Converter
File Manager = Material Manager or Lollipop File Manager
Gallery = QuickPic
su = SuperSu
wallpaper app = Wally
Forum/XDA = Tapatalk
RSS = Flyne
What do you guys use? I'm still looking for a better file manager (c'mon, Google!)

DonDizzurp said:
What do you guys use? I'm still looking for a better file manager (c'mon, Google!)
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For File Manager i'm using Cabinet File Manger.. pretty awesome....!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.afollestad.cabinet&hl=en

I use the Google apps, I've no reason not to!

Material Player for audiobooks is what I've been using. Doesn't have all the bells and whistles others do, but the dev is actively updating it.
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Yeah the Google apps are my favourite. Particularly messenger and calendar
Although I'm quite pleased with my keyboard
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Edit > got bored.

Anyone know any material wallpapers?
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ZacksBuilds said:
Anyone know any material wallpapers?
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There are a few apps that provide them on play and also some nice material live wallpapers

Believe me or not, google play games is my favorite.
Oh, and NexMusic for media player.

What about an e-book reader? Google Books or something else?

New CM file manager looks good and works better than others... Only Root Explorer is better but unfortunately it's not material...
Nexus 5 Lollipop powered by ElementalX...

cop1976 said:
New CM file manager looks good and works better than others... Only Root Explorer is better but unfortunately it's not material...
Nexus 5 Lollipop powered by ElementalX...
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CM File Manager has a material design? Since which nightly?
I can't want for an official CM12

Since 2/12/14 CM12...
Nexus 5 Lollipop powered by ElementalX...

cop1976 said:
Since 2/12/14 CM12...
Nexus 5 Lollipop powered by ElementalX...
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Can you post the APK here?
Thanks

Sure...
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2PiSOTXR691N29CdGdPaDc1M1U/edit?usp=docslist_api
Nexus 5 Lollipop powered by ElementalX...

Purely in terms of implementation of Material Design, I think the new Buzzfeed app is right up there with the best (even if their content isn't!).

Quickpik is my favourite just great

anyone else wondering where that cool music player app from the android l demo video is ? you know wht im talking about yeah ?

cop1976 said:
Since 2/12/14 CM12...
Nexus 5 Lollipop powered by ElementalX...
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Currently the CM12 is unofficially supported. I'm assuming that dev will take over for the official but I'll wait before installing it.
Thanks for the .apk

androidous said:
anyone else wondering where that cool music player app from the android l demo video is ? you know wht im talking about yeah ?
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They left out a few cool things from the demo. Either it'll come in the next update or they just scrapped it.

Today Calendar Pro is, by far, my favorite material app.

Best web browser to use?

I think it would have to be either NetSurf or a terminal browser, like links, w3m, lynx or elinks. Firefox is a sinking ship and so is any forks of it and Chrome is obviously not safe, but the best fork of it would be Ungoogled-Chromium, which even then that's not saying it's foolproof, because of the massive codebase that comes with Chromium and the fact that Google is still being supported by proxy. Pale Moon is starting to head in the wrong direction also, and smaller projects like Otter Browser and Suckless Surf, while promising, suffer from small dev teams, little to no addon support and lack their own engines and instead rely on Goooooogle and Crapple instead. But even then, you would have to wean yourself off of the modern web and stick to websites like neocities or wiby.me if you were to use stuff like NetSurf or elinks.
Also, what about email? I'd try RiseUp or Disroot w/ GPG encryption using the Claws webmail client w/ KeePassX or KeePassXC for generating email passwords stored on a removable drive. Although I heard self-hosting is also decent. Which is better?

Brave for surfing/sites, Samsung browser for vids. Pretty much bulletproof unless you do stupid things.
Gmail. ColorNote to save bookmarks.
And this dns setting mod:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

blackhawk said:
Brave for surfing/sites, Samsung browser for vids. Pretty much bulletproof unless you do stupid things.
Gmail. ColorNote to save bookmarks.
And this dns setting mod:
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Thank you for posting this and letting me know about Brave Private Web Browser, I was using Google Chrome then Samsung Internet prior to this. And honestly, I feel like I really missed out for a long time, thinking Samsung Internet sucked when I knew nothing about how it worked. I prefer it now, but I'll start using the Brave Browser as my default browser from now on.
And thanks for the Private DNS information!

Rotting Brain said:
Thank you for posting this and letting me know about Brave Private Web Browser, I was using Google Chrome then Samsung Internet prior to this. And honestly, I feel like I really missed out for a long time, thinking Samsung Internet sucked when I knew nothing about how it worked. I prefer it now, but I'll start using the Brave Browser as my default browser from now on.
And thanks for the Private DNS information!
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You're welcome. Welcome to XDA
Samsung is good for vids if you add some ad blockers from the Galaxy store. Just mind the download folder for unauthorized downloads.
Had a trojan preloader slip by Samsung somehow. It died in that folder
When in doubt try to back out of a bad website, if that fails close the browser tab, if that fails close the browser. If all that fails clear cache. If nothing gets it go full nuke and clear browser data. For over 2 years nothing has made it in again... I check the download folder at least once a day nonetheless.
Brave gets tarded with vids on the borders and I like multiple browsers anyway. The Samsung browser I have more configured for streaming vids. Brave is better for surfing, it's pretty much bullet proof; nothing has ever slipped by it.
My Brave browser has over a hundred open tabs, it don't care

blackhawk said:
You're welcome. Welcome to XDA
Samsung is good for vids if you add some ad blockers from the Galaxy store. Just mind the download folder for unauthorized downloads.
Had a trojan preloader slip by Samsung somehow. It died in that folder
When in doubt try to back out of a bad website, if that fails close the browser tab, if that fails close the browser. If all that fails clear cache. If nothing gets it go full nuke and clear browser data. For over 2 years nothing has made it in again... I check the download folder at least once a day nonetheless.
Brave gets tarded with vids on the borders and I like multiple browsers anyway. The Samsung browser I have more configured for streaming vids. Brave is better for surfing, it's pretty much bullet proof; nothing has ever slipped by it.
My Brave browser has over a hundred open tabs, it don't care
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Thank you for all your help, I'll be sure to remember that process in case I fall into a hole like that again.
Lol.

Spetsnazzzz said:
I think it would have to be either NetSurf or a terminal browser, like links, w3m, lynx or elinks. Firefox is a sinking ship and so is any forks of it and Chrome is obviously not safe, but the best fork of it would be Ungoogled-Chromium, which even then that's not saying it's foolproof, because of the massive codebase that comes with Chromium and the fact that Google is still being supported by proxy. Pale Moon is starting to head in the wrong direction also, and smaller projects like Otter Browser and Suckless Surf, while promising, suffer from small dev teams, little to no addon support and lack their own engines and instead rely on Goooooogle and Crapple instead. But even then, you would have to wean yourself off of the modern web and stick to websites like neocities or wiby.me if you were to use stuff like NetSurf or elinks.
Also, what about email? I'd try RiseUp or Disroot w/ GPG encryption using the Claws webmail client w/ KeePassX or KeePassXC for generating email passwords stored on a removable drive. Although I heard self-hosting is also decent. Which is better?
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Welcome to XDA,
Whatever browser you decide to use, please read before posting.
We have like 3 or 4 threads already with same topic

orb_selektor said:
Welcome to XDA,
Whatever browser you decide to use, please read before posting.
We have like 3 or 4 threads already with same topic
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I'm spilling black coffee as I post
I feel a thread merge a-coming. Or post like the sharks fed; thread frenzy! Or like free ranging long horns graze... those other browser threads were getting like bathroom wallpaper anyway.

librewolf on pc: https://librewolf.net/
foss browser on android: https://github.com/scoute-dich/browser