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csagan5 | 5 years ago

Kiwi: it is severely outdated and you installed it before it was open source.

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rvnx|5 years ago

csagan5: I give all the code of a large project, for anyone to use, with detailed and functional build instructions.

I don't ask for anything in return, and you can do basically what you want with it.

Ok, you repeat on this thread that your own browser (Bromite) is better and so on essentially spreading FUD, but for what result ?

We both have something else to do than spending time on that.

csagan5|5 years ago

I did not mention Bromite at all, what are you talking about?

There is no FUD here, let me write down some facts for you:

* users install Kiwi which does not contain all the security fixes of upstream stable Chromium (v81); this is been going on for several months now

* users do the same for Bromite and the Bromite SystemWebView

I warn everyone equally about this problem, nobody should run an outdated browser because of all the security issues, look at 2019 alone here: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224...

More facts:

* the current version of Kiwi, in Play Store and in source form, still is not up to date and covering the security issues fixed by upstream Chromium

* Kiwi was not open source until now and its repository was plain lying about it (https://web.archive.org/web/20190719191635/https://github.co...), making people think it was open source while you published only a few unusable patches

* even now there is no commit history making the source code unusable and unauditable

* you included trackers at some point in Kiwi and visits were going to some search server of yours

Did I miss anything? I am glad you decided to open source it but it does not change the above facts.

cercatrova|5 years ago

How is it outdated when the versions on the Play Store are automatically built with the open source version, which got an update 7 hours ago? Even if I had used a previous version, my current version is up to date by now.

rvnx|5 years ago

He is referring to the fact that Kiwi is based on a mix of different Chromium versions of 2019. Chromium does new release almost every month. It's difficult to keep track of Chromium modifications with such large forks (and Chromium had lot of performance issue at the end of 2019 too with stuttering and lags).

UCBrowser for example is an engine of 2017, Samsung Internet from 2019, etc