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

+ VERY snappy! Faster switching tabs, opening pages, etc. than Chrome!! The customizability + Extensions puts back what Chrome is missing. - Lacks Firefox's ability to clear EVERYTHING (cookies, tabs, data) upon each exit, so you must manually clear data (at least it's in the menu). Impossible to select partial link text by sweeping over the text. Would like on-screen page up/down buttons for ease of use.

For the love of God, just let us disable pull to refresh. This has been a requested feature on your GitHub for YEARS. It causes issues every single time I use the app. There is no excuse to not have fixed this by now. Fullscreen alignment is also completely broken, requiring every video to be fullscreened 4-5 times in order to get the video in alignment with the screen. These are really basic issues that can be easily fixed, but have been ignored for several years.

Honestly, I don't know why the ratings are so low? Maybe I just don't use it enough or something, but it doesn't have any particular egregious issues on my end. To be fair, I've had this for maybe a year or so and I use it as more a companion browser than anything (so I don't open it TOO too often), but I haven't experienced crashes, even with extensions and userscripts/Tampermonkey going, or intrusive ads or whatnot. Maybe it depends on usage? I have nothing but love to give either way. :]

What's new

- Updated Chromium to 107.0.5304.66.
- Android 12: Resolved an issue affecting some users who saw "Aw, snap" or partial content (HTML code instead of the web page).
- Resolved an issue with developer tools making the browser unresponsive once the tools are opened.
- Removed unused permissions.