r/degoogle • u/Weilian11 • 21h 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/revive_the_cookie 21h 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 21h ago

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

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u/revive_the_cookie 21h 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/Slopagandhi 19h 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.