The Bromite project has been inactive for the last 9 months or so. Today I found this fork of Bromite that’s well maintained and seems to work flawlessly. Hope it helps others who were looking for a replacement.

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    9 months ago

    If you disable chrome and only have Firefox on it will use Firefox webview. Android should have make it use default browser or have a selection for default webview.

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      9 months ago

      There is a selection in developer settings and it does not list Firefox.

      Disabling Chromium or not having it in the first place simply makes apps that use WebView crash.

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          9 months ago

          What’s shown in this picture has nothing to do with WebViews, it’s a custom tab.

          Try opening an app that has a WebView. I can’t think of a good example on the top of my head but the Deutsche Bahn Navigator uses them and crashes without a WebView present.

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            9 months ago

            Ah TIL. From the user perspective they have similarities, but developer side they got some different use cases. Thanks for the references!

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          9 months ago

          I find mobile FF does have a webview component (aka custom tabs), but it must be explicitly called for in a app’s setting. Otherwise the system only uses the Chrome webview.

          I even installed the Mulch webview app. But the system still used Chrome’s webview; that’s until i temporarily disabled Chome. It was then Mulch shows up in deveolper settings.