Kiwi Browser - Fast & Quiet

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Contains ads

About this app

Kiwi Browser is made to browse the internet, read news, watch videos and listen to music, without annoyances.

Browse in peace.

Kiwi is based on Chromium and WebKit, the engine that powers the most popular browser in the world so you won't lose your habits.

We hope you'll love Kiwi as much as we do.

Note for power users and supporters: We have a Discord (chat) community where you can discuss development and share ideas: https://discordapp.com/invite/XyMppQq


Main Features:
★ Based on the very best Chromium

★ Incredible page load speed 🚀
Thanks to our very optimised rendering engine, we are able to display web pages super fast.

★ Super strong pop-ups blocker that really works

★ Supports many extensions

★ Unlock Facebook Web Messenger
Go to m.facebook.com and chat with your friends without having to install FB application.


More goodness:
★ Night mode with customizable contrast and grayscale mode.
100% contrast = pure AMOLED black (actually turns off pixels) - recommended!
101% contrast = pure AMOLED black + white text

★ Bottom address bar

★ Manage websites that appear on the homepage
Long-press to move or delete the tiles, click the [+] to add a new website.

★ Disable AMP (Settings, Privacy)

★ Block annoying notifications

★ Block slow and invasive trackers to protect your privacy.

★ Translation into 60 languages.

★ Import / Export bookmarks.

★ Custom Downloads folder
Choose where your downloaded files are stored.
Note: On certain Android versions, when you uninstall an app, Android also removes your downloads.
Keep it in mind if you manipulate Kiwi (to backup bookmarks file) or transfer to another device.

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Advanced users:
If you want to open links with an external application, you can long-press on the link, or change the default setting in Settings, Accessibility.

To add a new search engine, go to your favorite search engine, and do a couple of searches, and then go to Settings, Search Engine.

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Kiwi Browser is very new, and still in test. Please help us by sending a little e-mail if you see crashes, bugs or just want to say Hi 😊

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Made in Estonia

Ratings and reviews

My two biggest complaints is that pages often fail to fully load, having to use another browser & there's no backup, like Chrome has. Once browser is uninstalled or if data is cleared, all saved info is gone. Night Mode is my favorite feature, as I most always keep on. It has issues on Google, often switching to white background. Other than that, it's a solid browser and a very good alternative to Chrome.

Only usable for basic web browsing anymore. The biggest issue now is that forms don't display and sumbit correctly. This makes it random and mostly impossible to buy things online. Many drop-down and button options don't work properly and I did not know this until I went back to chrome and saw all the properly functioning options companies had on their purchase forms. Extensions also broken until browser closed and reopened, tab organizer has lots of blank space and auto scrolls to top...mess.

Pretty solid, but needs an update badly. About a week ago I started getting pages freezing constantly, and pages breaking and turning fully black when locking and unlocking the screen. Sometimes I'll click a link and instead of loading the page, it'll just lock my scrolling and not load anything. These all require the tab to be closed, with no ability to save my place.

What's new

Updated Chromium to v116.0.5845.68.

Enhanced:
- Faster tab rendering and initialization.

Changed:
- Removed the search window when holding text.
- Translator stays quiet by default (Settings > Languages).

Added:
- New tab button in Desktop mode once all tabs have been closed.

Fixed:
- Extensions manual update button.
- Extensions loaded from zip getting disabled/cleared.
- Incognito and background-loaded tabs not being restored.
- AMP pages not getting redirected.

Enjoy!