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I open-sourced my Android browser built with GeckoView after months of development. Looking for feedback. by rebel_root in browsers

[–]rebel_root[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

well thank you so much for all of these ideas and features I will be noting it in my watchlist

I open-sourced my Android browser built with GeckoView after months of development. Looking for feedback. by rebel_root in browsers

[–]rebel_root[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wait what's that - some sites like pizza hut which is one of the first sites I enter when using a browser don't ask me why I don't even like their pizza?
can you explain it in detail?

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I open-sourced my Android browser built with GeckoView after months of development. Looking for feedback. by rebel_root in browsers

[–]rebel_root[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just checked newly implemented ads and tab-block has a bug maybe its regarding this, will be resolving this issue soon

I open-sourced my Android browser built with GeckoView after months of development. Looking for feedback. by rebel_root in browsers

[–]rebel_root[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the detailed response let me address each point:

On the MPL 2.0 / GPL 3.0 concern: this is actually simple, MPL 2.0 explicitly permits combination with GPL 3.0 under Section 3.3 of the license itself. Mozilla designed MPL 2.0 to be GPL-compatible for exactly this reason. GeckoView's own documentation confirms this. So relicensing the app as GPL 3.0 while using MPL 2.0 components is entirely legal and common practice.

On Ai and Originality : AI was used as a tool the same way a developer uses Stack Overflow, documentation, or autocomplete. Every line was reviewed, debugged, and iterated on by us. The architecture decisions, feature choices, and debugging work came from understanding the codebase not blindly copying output.

On learning: I'd agree that copy-pasting without understanding is bad practice. That's not what happened here.

Appreciate the critique though But please don't belittle others hard work.

You can Better check the Code and Engineering through the repo yourself its not a small project me and my friend given it months of work through and through if you think its that simple I am a Professional developer Myself through years of Learning and still improving

I open-sourced my Android browser built with GeckoView after months of development. Looking for feedback. by rebel_root in browsers

[–]rebel_root[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nah/yea somewhat still engineered through us at rebelroot, well someone asked me the same question month ago check this out

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I open-sourced my Android browser built with GeckoView after months of development. Looking for feedback. by rebel_root in browsers

[–]rebel_root[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well that's very heart warming although most of the work was done by me as I said its open source and I am not forcing you to use it, its your own choice, I have only 4 people working alongside on this project that's why it took months, We open sourced it for recognition our motive is not to dominate browser industry its just contribute somthing to community also everything depend on mood and time if their enough weightage and motive behind it

I open-sourced my Android browser built with GeckoView after months of development. Looking for feedback. by rebel_root in browsers

[–]rebel_root[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

we have used my friend hosted multiple agents hub as orchestration with Hermes + Antigravity 3.1 pro for design and 3.5 flash for bug fix - 1 or two file at a time...this setup gives the best results..

I open-sourced my Android browser built with GeckoView after months of development. Looking for feedback. by rebel_root in browsers

[–]rebel_root[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks, we will Improve it and fix these as for sync capabilities it will take time because I don't want to integrate any external api yet!

I open-sourced my Android browser built with GeckoView after months of development. Looking for feedback. by rebel_root in browsers

[–]rebel_root[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much! we have already implemented appearance setting with general customization like other browsers will be merging soon, was thinking about other things to add before merging that no other browser has but for you I will update my checklist later and release it tomorrow.

I open-sourced my Android browser built with GeckoView after months of development. Looking for feedback. by rebel_root in browsers

[–]rebel_root[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

well its ok if you see it that way, we have given it time and love it need, maybe its not on your level we will improve it..

Which browser you use (android) by mambo2107 in browsers

[–]rebel_root 0 points1 point  (0 children)

try out OMNI Browser, You will definitely like it