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Thank you /e/ team for finally updating your browser. Seriously, thanks!
However that version 96.0.4664.183, is still a dead LTS branch and is still 11 security patches behind including CVE-2022-0609, upstream has replaced it with 98.0.4758.101.

Also note that Bromite has had patches for 97 and 98 created by a contributer, but rejected by its maintainer for seemingly no reason. The Bromite maintainer has also stated that they are not happy that /e/ depends on Bromite and yet has never contributed to Bromite.

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@Edmund: Would you mind to describe how one does it right with github?
Even without termux?

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@Anonyme (going for the camille with pointers in this thread), did the dual booting not present shenanigans any time recently for you?
I had a windows 10 machine with Linux that was suddenly unable to locate the second partition after some ā€œupdateā€ (Iā€™d kept it offline for a long time but wanted the convenience of a WiFi connections and learned my lesson)

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  • Download a file from there onto your device. For an FP the ARM64 would be the right one.
  • When the file is on the device open a file manager and navigate to the file.
  • The following depends on the file manager: Tap on the file to get a context menu, then select ā€œInstallā€. If the context menu doesnā€™t open by tapping itā€™s somewhere else on a button or so.
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Wrong Camille I guess :smiley: Sorry, hope youā€™ll find your answer!

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haha indeed, my apologies!

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I am not going to lie, that kind of does bother me a little bit. The fact that /e/ has not contributed to bromite. I hope this is not true.

Also it looks like mine is still on 96 version :frowning: is this right?

I am curious, is there any reason that /e/ doesnā€™t just partner with bromite and ship their phones with bromite? That way people would benefit from the latest versions as well as give them the visibility so people from the /e/ community could contribute to that project. I will say I do like the default /e/ os browser.

That said, how do I know which apk to download from the github if I want to try bromite?

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@Philbo
/e/OS is supposed to be shipping 100.0.4896.57 right now per Commits Ā· master Ā· e / os / Browser Ā· GitLab
However even that version currently has 57 known security issues: https://divestos.org/misc/ch-dates.txt
If /e/ team is pinning browser/webview version to each release and not updating out of band they are downright harming their users.

The easiest way to get the correct Bromite for your device is to add their repo to F-Droid.
Otherwise you want the latest ChromePublic.apk file: Releases Ā· bromite/bromite Ā· GitHub

If you have an arm64 device you want the arm64 prefixed one, if you are unsure try arm64 first and use arm if it fails.

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When you say ā€œshippingā€ does that mean it will update automatically? Again mine is still showing a v 96.

Also, how does one add the bromite repo to fdroid? This is new lingo for me lol

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@Philbo
I do not believe /e/OS provides out-of-band updates for the WebView, so it will only update every time you update the system.

For Bromite:

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You should get always the latest version here. I already said for the FP you need the top most arm64_ChromePublic.apk.

Install this. When you then startup Bromite instead of the stock browser app it will inform you by itself about further updates from time to time. This is shown by an icon in the upper right corner of Bromite. These updates are then also just APKs to download. Thereā€™s no automated update process. This means you must install them again manually.

(But using Fdroid is much better ā€¦)

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Thanks @anon88181694 and @irrlicht. I was able to get the fdroid repo to work. Pretty slick. Had no idea you could do that.

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