So I thought it would finally be smart to find a replacement for Bromite. I picked up Mulch, and after an initial shock (I didn’t think Bromite has that many enhancements for the basic things), I’m still having two main problems:
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Using Lemmy as a pwa doesn’t keep me logged in. In the normal browsing mode it works, and so it does in Bromite (incl. pwa). I can’t figure out what I could change. Ideas?
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Background video doesn’t play. Or rather, it always pauses when minimising the app, and I need to resume it in the notification. Stupidly annoying. I couldn’t find a solution for this, as most results lead to “Chrome will allow bg video in a beta from 5 years ago” or similar. Can’t it just keep playing? I’m not talking about YouTube btw.
These were the primary things I need a Chromium-based browser for, as FF doesn’t play nice with pwa nor some video sites.
(I don’t feel like installing Brave or similar. I installed Chromium and I booted it after 2 minutes of seeing all the Google crap.)
I don’t use Mulch, but for PWAs, you coult totally use Native Alpha instead. Did you try that?
I’m not sure I want to use a webview-based browser.
Got it. Native Alpha is just specifically made for that and I think, it uses the system’s webview.
So I’m now thinking, Jerboa is also a vebview app so it probably doesn’t make much difference, if I’m using them for basically the same thing?
Hm. I’d still prefer to have a bit more of separation between the system and what’s on a screen. Hardened browsers seem the best for that.
Jerboa is a Webview app? Seems pretty native to me.
Also, if you’re rooted, you could use something like Webview Manager to use a hardened System Webview, which Native Alpha will then use for PWAs.