Kiwi Browser - Fast & Quiet

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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

Amazing browser!! It is very flexible, and it looks good too. I especially love that you can use extensions. It is still amazing, but I would like to bring up 2 things. Firstly, when you open up the tab switcher it has a big blank space at the top. Secondly when you create a shortcut it doesn't make a web app, which I especially would love. Those are the only problems for me. Other than that it is very very easy to use with little bugs, very fast, and has lots of customisation options.

The app is really good. It has a nice extension support and it's quite stable and fast. I recommend installing uBlockOrigin. But it does have some issues. Full screen videos aren't centered properly, hence some part of the video is cropped, which is annoying. Also I'm quite skeptical of this browser's privacy policy. Collecting location data (precise / approximate) for ads is a bit concerning. But apart from that, this might just be the best browser for Android right now!

Much improved from previous versions. Backwards gestures are still very bad, but less essential than forward. The dark mode is ridiculous though. I really like the idea, but not the execution. Wikipedia is almost unreadable now due to colouring of images and the types of palettes chosen. Tables with multiple colours for example are reduced to effectively two colours it seems. The black is also very intensely black and the different settings don't seem to do anything for me. Gray is still black.

What's new

This update includes the following changes:

1. Upgraded internal components used for rendering web pages (no user interface changes).
2. Resolved issue with News not getting displayed on homepage.
3. Resolved issue with Web Store not accepting to install extensions.
4. Added recommendations / best practices when installing extensions for the first time.

Enjoy!