Bromite - Take back your browser

Bromite is Chromium plus some patches for ad blocking and enhanced privacy.

Bromite is only available for Android v4.1 and above.

See open issues for the development in progress.

Donate

Please donate to support development of Bromite and the costs for the build system.

Support development with a donation of 3 EUR:

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F.A.Q.

Does Google Sync/Translate/Data saver work?

No. This is not a limitation of Bromite but of all Chromium-based projects in general, as general public is not allowed to use Google's APIs for free unless when using Chrome.

What is the SystemWebView?

It is the core component of Android for all web page visualizations. For example when you access a new wifi network and need to activate it, that is using the SystemWebView. If you do not know what it is then you do not need to install it.

Does Bromite require root?

No.

Can you add dark mode/some cool themes?

No. Bromite is about adblocking and privacy.

Can you add HTTPS everywhere?

No. We cannot add add-ons to Bromite (merely some features) and anyway HTTPS everywhere in particular is too invasive to be easily maintained across new releases.

Features

• adblocking (currently baked-in, no configuration options available)
• remove click-tracking and AMP from Google search results
• allow youtube/vimeo videos to play in background
• StartPage search engine
• DuckDuckGo search engine
• Qwant search engine
• Google search engines English-only with reduced tracking
• privacy enhancement patches from Inox patchset, ungoogled-chromium and Iridium projects
• removed webRTC and applied other anti-fingerprinting mitigations
• all codecs included (proprietary, open H.264 etc.)
• built with official optimizations

Releases

A build server goes through the very lengthy build operation and then new versions are available in this project as releases.

Each tag corresponds to a Chromium release tag.

How to build

The bromite main repository contains tags for each corresponding Chromium release (see https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git).

Please refer to official Chromium build documentation to get started on how to build Chromium; if you can build Chromium for Android, you can build Bromite.

Credits

• Chromium project and developers
• ungoogled-chromium for some patches
• Iridium project for some patches (taken from above ungoogled-chromium)
• Inox patchset for some patches (taken from above ungoogled-chromium)
• nochromo for the original adblock patch
• AdBlock Plus, uBlock, EasyList and EasyPrivacy for the compilation of original adblock patch

License

The patches published as part of the Bromite project are released under GNU GPL v3.