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Report: DOJ wants to force Google Chrome sale, Android de-bundling (arstechnica.com)
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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Force Google to use firefox for "webview" on android

Money shot

All that investment hehe

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

This would be so good. As someone who fully switched to Firefox on Android I hate that chrome webview is a thing.

Closest without rooting is to "uninstall updates" to the chrome app in the menu which makes it "APK Stub" instead of Chrome, ans then disabling Android Webview.

[–] Giooschi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This would be so good. As someone who fully switched to Firefox on Android I hate that chrome webview is a thing.

Why does that bother you? There's also a Firefox Webview you can use system-wide. I think only Google apps insists on opening Chrome's webview.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Huh? First time I hear of such a thing. How can I use this Firefox Webview system-wide?

[–] Giooschi@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry, by looking more into it I realized webview is actually a different thing than what I was thinking about.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago

No worries.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you are fucking with it that much... Have you heard of vanadium?

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Only works for Pixels with Graphene

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can't take apk from github?

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Vanadium isn't yet officially available for users outside GrapheneOS, although we plan to do that eventually. It won't be able to provide the WebView outside GrapheneOS and will have missing hardening and other features" from their github

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 3 days ago

Well damn... Thanks for sharing.

I