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Cromite is a [Chromium](https://www.chromium.org/Home) fork based on [Bromite](https://github.com/bromite/bromite) with built-in support for ad blocking and an eye for privacy.
Cromite is available for Android arm64-v8a, arm32-v7a and x86_64, Nougat and above (Minimum v7.0, API level 24), Windows and Linux 64bit.
Cromite's goal is to
- limit the features built into the browser that can be used as a platform for tracking users' habits, and, if it is not technically possible, disable them and leave it up to the user to choose whether to re-enable them
- limit the close integration between the browser and its manufacturer
- not let the excellent research work done by csagan5 with Bromite be lost
In addition, Cromite would like to promote greater integration with other non-profit, open source browsers, encouraging closer collaboration with others, and attempt to integrate them directly into Chromium once they have reached an appropriate level of maturity.
# Privacy limitations
Cromite's privacy features, including anti-fingerprinting mitigations (which are not comprehensive), **are not to be considered useful for journalists and people living in countries with freedom limitations**, please look at [Tor Browser](https://www.torproject.org/download/) in such cases.
Please note that this project is not free of bugs and that changing the behaviour of a browser can be risky and not without problems.
- [Privacy Policy](https://github.com/uazo/cromite/blob/master/docs/PRIVACY_POLICY.md)
- [Features](https://github.com/uazo/cromite/blob/master/docs/FEATURES.md)
- [How to build](https://github.com/uazo/cromite/blob/master/docs/HOW_TO_BUILD.md)
- [Patch list](https://github.com/uazo/cromite/blob/master/docs/PATCHES.md)
All built versions are available as [releases](https://github.com/uazo/cromite/releases).
Cromite is currently built for ARM64, x86 (Android SDK version 23+) and Windows x64.
You will automatically receive notifications about new updates (and be able to install them) via the auto updater functionality (enabled by default), see [related wiki page](https://github.com/bromite/bromite/wiki/AutomaticUpdates).
### F-droid
Official F-droid repo url:
https://www.cromite.org/fdroid/repo/?fingerprint=49F37E74DEE483DCA2B991334FB5A0200787430D0B5F9A783DD5F13695E9517B
### Auto-update setup for windows
1. Download https://github.com/henrypp/chrlauncher/releases
2. Create a `chrlauncher.ini`
```
[chrlauncher]
# Custom Chromium update URL (string):
ChromiumUpdateUrl=https://github.com/uazo/cromite/releases/latest/download/updateurl.txt
# Command line for Chromium (string):
# note --user-data-dir= works better if path is absolute
# See here: http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
ChromiumCommandLine=--user-data-dir="C:\Users\<my user>\AppData\Local\Chromium\User Data" --no-default-browser-check
# to enable full logging in c:\temp\log.txt (daily rotate, no automatic deletion)
# ChromiumCommandLine=--enable-logging --v=0 --log-file=C:\temp\log.txt --user-data-dir=".\User Data" --no-default-browser-check
# Chromium executable file name (string):
ChromiumBinary=chrome.exe
# Chromium binaries directory (string):
# Relative (to chrlauncher directory) or full path (env. variables supported).
ChromiumDirectory=.\bin
```
To prevent deletion by Microsoft Defender each time the browser is updated, check the `user-data-dir` folder by modifying it accordingly.
### Enable network process sandbox in windows
I don't include any setups because I don't like the experience of not knowing what they do, so you must manually run this command on first installation:
```
cd <where_is_the_exe>
icacls . /grant "*S-1-15-2-2:(OI)(CI)(RX)"
```
see https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools/issues/51
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### Enable AppContainer for renderer process in windows
you can activate the 'RendererAppContainer' flag from the command line with
```
--enable-features=RendererAppContainer
```
### Auto-update setup for linux
working in progress in https://github.com/uazo/cromite/issues/771
Please submit issues following the issue template; beware that GitHub does not display the templates from mobile.
Patches are welcome and accepted if they match the project goals.
If you want to help me, [here](https://github.com/uazo/cromite/blob/master/docs/HELP_ME_PLEASE.md) is the list of things I would need.
For any usage or development discussion please use GitHub Discussions: https://github.com/uazo/cromite/discussions
* [Chromium project](https://www.chromium.org/Home) and developers
* [Bromite](https://github.com/bromite/bromite)
* [Iridium project](https://github.com/iridium-browser) for some patches
* [ungoogled-chromium](https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium) for some patches
* [ungoogled-chromium-android](https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-android) for some patches
* [GrapheneOS](https://github.com/GrapheneOS) for some security patches
* [Inox patchset](https://github.com/gcarq/inox-patchset) for some patches (via ungoogled-chromium)
* [Brave Browser](https://github.com/brave/brave-core) for some patches
thanks to [austinhuang0131](https://github.com/austinhuang0131) for the svg icon
Cromite is published under [GNU GPL v3](./LICENSE).
The patches published as part of the Bromite project are released under GNU GPL v3 only.
Cromite specific patches are under the GNU GPL-2+ licence.
Each individual patch contains specific information on the licence used.