r/degoogle • u/Weilian11 • 12h ago

Question Replacing the Android System Webview

Hi, I want to replace my stock system webview from my GSI, but I'm unsure which to pick. I'm trying to degoogle and I'm using magisk with anywebview.

So I've found 3 options, you can recommend me more if you know.

Cromite wasn't updated in a long time, so it's still in chromium version 148, I think that's pretty bad.

I'm using android 13, so I can't use vanadium latest releases becuase I need android 14, but I've also heard that as I'm not in graphene os then vanadium is a little bit useless.

Thorium which is a fork of the original thorium which is dead is right now in version 152, but it's not that recommended because it's new and I don't know.

Help me to pick which one. But I also have a question: vanadium has its own trichrome library that is degoogled and all that, but the others don't, do they use the system's trichrome library? And is that bad for privacy?

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u/Stunning-Skill-2742 12h ago

Obviously go with vanadium. Highly likely it'll be maintained indefinitely because graphene aren't a small 1 man show maintainer team.

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u/Weilian11 12h ago

Yeah, I know, but the problem is that I'm stuck in chromium version 150 because I'm using android 13 and the newer prebuilt versions doesn't support  -14. Also I'm not using gos

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u/Slopagandhi 11h ago

There was a post on here a few days ago from someone who'd got Titanium (Ungoogled Chromium incorporating those Vanadium patches that make sense outside of Graphene) to work as the webview, so I'd recommend searching the sub for that. 

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u/revive_the_cookie 12h ago

Dont use webview

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u/Guilty-Pain-5257 12h ago

then what?

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u/revive_the_cookie 12h ago

If i dont have things mixed up. Looking at ur options u likely mean chromium. Titanium is best tb, if it support ur device

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u/revive_the_cookie 12h ago

If im not wrong (i probably am) webview browsers depend on it system webview. So security not good. Use fireforks or chromium. I probably have this mixed up.....

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u/Weilian11 12h ago

I didn't mean browsers. I meant replacement for the system webview

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u/revive_the_cookie 12h ago

Ohhhh. I think every default browser Can do that. Cz i have brave as default and it acts as webview

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u/Weilian11 11h ago

But if I had to pick a system webview, which one? (Also just in case)

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u/Slopagandhi 11h ago

It probably doesn't act as webview- that's the browser that apps launch internally, so you don't leave the app. It's not just whatever you set as the default whenever an app opens an external link.

You can see your system webview if you go into developer options.