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jkmartindale
3 years agoNew Contributor
Browser Autofill Support for Bromite (Chromium Fork)
Could 1Password please add https://www.bromite.org/ (org.bromite.bromite) as a supported browser for autofill? Since it's a patched version of Chromium for Android (just with some privacy/usability t...
jkmartindale
3 years agoNew Contributor
My interest in Bromite is it being a Chromium fork that adds back good expired flags (like bottom navigation) without adding much cruft. The only other Android browser that offers Chromium with a decent ad blocker and useful UI tweaks is Brave, and Brave is becoming less appealing as it turns more and more into adware. From my understanding Bromite's been decently popular in the Android privacy space and is a commonly used alternative browser with GrapheneOS.
Moreover 1Password autofill already works in Bromite, so it seems weird that getting URL-based entry filtering is only available if the browser is on a hardcoded list. I was able to get 1Password to treat Bromite like a browser just by making a patched 1Password APK with an extra line in the com.onepassword.android.autofill.KnownBrowser enum. That's all it took. I can get by on this as a temporary solution, though it breaks auto-update for the 1Password app if I do that. Definitely not a solution for the less savvy.
I guess really it seems strange to me to have an inflexible hardcoded list of apps considered a browser, with no escape hatch for the user, if adding support for a browser can be that trivial. I'd appreciate a way to tell the 1Password app what additional apps to consider a browser. Maybe an app setting somewhere with an appropriate disclaimer about no guarantee of functionality with unsupported browsers.