{"slug": "cromite", "name": "Cromite", "category": "browsers", "category_name": "Browsers and extensions", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 7, "warners": 1, "score": 2.577, "rising": 0.02, "first": "2025-11-03", "latest": "2026-09-29", "why": "On Android, I would also recommend both IronFox and Cromite.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 2}, "spark": [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "On Android, I would also recommend both IronFox and Cromite.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/uazo/cromite", "official_url": "https://github.com/uazo/cromite", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Cromite"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 798182979, "item_id": 49886436, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886436", "by": "rpdillon", "date": "2026-09-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "On Android, I would also recommend both IronFox and Cromite.", "excerpt": "This isn't accurate. Mozilla stopped focusing on their core product, which was the browser. Brave has desperately been trying to monetize the creation of a privacy-focused browser for some time, much to the chagrin of folks on HN. I decided to pay for their open source offering, which doesn't have any of that. The hate for Brave is some combination of people dredging up issues from very early in their existence and m", "context": "", "use_case": "Android browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 771519937, "item_id": 48219996, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219996", "by": "Markoff", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I can recommend Cromite", "excerpt": "I use on desktop Vivaldi, on Android I can recommend Cromite (some people like as well Helium and Ultimatum)", "context": "", "use_case": "Android browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}, {"id": 767895040, "item_id": 47993440, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993440", "by": "Markoff", "date": "2026-05-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recently switched from iceraven to Cromite", "excerpt": "I recently switched from iceraven to Cromite. If you have no problem with the new FF UI and don't mind a bit lower speed then iceraven is ok, if you can't stand the UI then Cromite.", "context": "", "use_case": "Android browser", "switched_from": "Iceraven", "story": "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"}, {"id": 766511920, "item_id": 47906995, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906995", "by": "dubious2", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "cromite with ublock dns", "excerpt": "cromite with ublock dns https://my.ublockdns.com/q8i6s34n no calling home", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Chrome, Brave, Firefox or Something Else?"}, {"id": 766387248, "item_id": 47899203, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47899203", "by": "Markoff", "date": "2026-04-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Cromite - Chromium, MV2 extensions, good new tab page", "excerpt": "For anyone looking for Android alternative: Cromite - Chromium, MV2 extensions, good new tab page with 4x4 shortcuts (2x4 pinnable) with direct access to bookmarks https://github.com/uazo/cromite/releases Ultimatum - Chromium, MV2 extensions, not so good new tab page similar to original Chrome with only like 4 shortcuts without swiping, limitec customization, no password manager AFAIR https://github.com/gonzazoid/Ult", "context": "", "use_case": "Android Chromium browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 773624178, "item_id": 48351511, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351511", "by": "elivoncoder", "date": "2026-05-31", "stance": "warn", "quote": "3 of my browsers failed that test page", "excerpt": "interesting topic. 3 of my browsers failed that test page. konqueror. and on android, vanadium and cromite. https://browser-compat.turnstile.workers.dev/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"}, {"id": 763722496, "item_id": 47732656, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732656", "by": "Markoff", "date": "2026-04-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Cromite on Android 15 stock Pixel ROM:", "excerpt": "Cromite on Android 15 stock Pixel ROM: Error constructing CesiumWidget. Visit http://get.webgl.org to verify that your web browser and hardware support WebGL. Consider trying a different web browser or updating your video drivers. Detailed error information is below: RuntimeError: The browser supports WebGL, but initialization failed. Error at new kL (https://cesium.com/downloads/cesiumjs/releases/1.125/Build/Cesium/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Every plane you see in the sky \u2013 you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["android browser", "android chromium browser", "mobile browsing", "testing equation rendering"], "compared": [{"slug": "firefox", "name": "Firefox", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "vivaldi", "name": "Vivaldi", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "librewolf", "name": "LibreWolf", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "brave", "name": "Brave", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345840", "title": "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897891", "title": "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878759", "title": "I switched to Brave", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48471970", "title": "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219060", "title": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47887549", "title": "Ask HN: Chrome, Brave, Firefox or Something Else?", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"neutral": 1}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 798182979, "item_id": 49886436, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886436", "by": "rpdillon", "date": "2026-09-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "On Android, I would also recommend both IronFox and Cromite.", "excerpt": "This isn't accurate. Mozilla stopped focusing on their core product, which was the browser. Brave has desperately been trying to monetize the creation of a privacy-focused browser for some time, much to the chagrin of folks on HN. I decided to pay for their open source offering, which doesn't have any of that. The hate for Brave is some combination of people dredging up issues from very early in their existence and m", "context": "", "use_case": "Android browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 775726016, "item_id": 48482876, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482876", "by": "dubious2", "date": "2026-06-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use cromite also.", "excerpt": "I use cromite also.Your old phone may work with version 138.0.7204.184 I believe uptown app store offers that version.", "context": "", "use_case": "Android browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow"}, {"id": 773624178, "item_id": 48351511, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351511", "by": "elivoncoder", "date": "2026-05-31", "stance": "warn", "quote": "3 of my browsers failed that test page", "excerpt": "interesting topic. 3 of my browsers failed that test page. konqueror. and on android, vanadium and cromite. https://browser-compat.turnstile.workers.dev/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"}, {"id": 773538465, "item_id": 48346154, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346154", "by": "denysvitali", "date": "2026-05-31", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "a privacy conscious fork of Chromium for Android", "excerpt": "Cloudflare is known to use fingerprinting to detect scrapers For example, they use JA3 fingerprints and match them against the UA to block stuff like cURL while allowing OkHttp (Android clients) - but this can be easily be spoofed with packages such as CycleTLS [1]. I don't want to defend them, because they gate away a good chunk of the internet with their \"bot protection\", but unless you do PoW (which is also ecolog", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"}, {"id": 771519937, "item_id": 48219996, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219996", "by": "Markoff", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I can recommend Cromite", "excerpt": "I use on desktop Vivaldi, on Android I can recommend Cromite (some people like as well Helium and Ultimatum)", "context": "", "use_case": "Android browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}, {"id": 767895040, "item_id": 47993440, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993440", "by": "Markoff", "date": "2026-05-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recently switched from iceraven to Cromite", "excerpt": "I recently switched from iceraven to Cromite. If you have no problem with the new FF UI and don't mind a bit lower speed then iceraven is ok, if you can't stand the UI then Cromite.", "context": "", "use_case": "Android browser", "switched_from": "Iceraven", "story": "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"}, {"id": 766511920, "item_id": 47906995, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906995", "by": "dubious2", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "cromite with ublock dns", "excerpt": "cromite with ublock dns https://my.ublockdns.com/q8i6s34n no calling home", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Chrome, Brave, Firefox or Something Else?"}, {"id": 766387248, "item_id": 47899203, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47899203", "by": "Markoff", "date": "2026-04-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Cromite - Chromium, MV2 extensions, good new tab page", "excerpt": "For anyone looking for Android alternative: Cromite - Chromium, MV2 extensions, good new tab page with 4x4 shortcuts (2x4 pinnable) with direct access to bookmarks https://github.com/uazo/cromite/releases Ultimatum - Chromium, MV2 extensions, not so good new tab page similar to original Chrome with only like 4 shortcuts without swiping, limitec customization, no password manager AFAIR https://github.com/gonzazoid/Ult", "context": "", "use_case": "Android Chromium browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"}, {"id": 763722496, "item_id": 47732656, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732656", "by": "Markoff", "date": "2026-04-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Cromite on Android 15 stock Pixel ROM:", "excerpt": "Cromite on Android 15 stock Pixel ROM: Error constructing CesiumWidget. Visit http://get.webgl.org to verify that your web browser and hardware support WebGL. Consider trying a different web browser or updating your video drivers. Detailed error information is below: RuntimeError: The browser supports WebGL, but initialization failed. Error at new kL (https://cesium.com/downloads/cesiumjs/releases/1.125/Build/Cesium/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Every plane you see in the sky \u2013 you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D"}, {"id": 740952097, "item_id": 46309506, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46309506", "by": "alisonatwork", "date": "2025-12-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "both of these just give you a clean and compatible browser without any frills", "excerpt": "What platform are you on? I use Ungoogled Chromium on desktop (uBlock Origin still works if you install it from GitHub) and Cromite on mobile (some AdBlock built-in), mainly because both of these just give you a clean and compatible browser without any frills. I noped out of Firefox back whenever it was that they started prompting me to make an account to sync every time I opened it, but I still use LibreWolf at work", "context": "", "use_case": "Mobile browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an \"AI Browser\""}, {"id": 732926976, "item_id": 45807936, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45807936", "by": "__rito__", "date": "2025-11-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Tested with Cromite, Firefox on Android.", "excerpt": "The equation number is overlapped with the equation. Tested with Cromite, Firefox on Android. 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