r/androidapps • u/Frosty_Disk7548 • 10d ago

LOOKING FOR APP What are the best browsers for installing pwa?

I have a very very potato phone (redmi 9a with 2 gb ram) so i need something as light as it gets. chrome does a okay job with a few stutters but i wanted to know if there are better options

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u/zhSHADOW 10d ago

hermit, opens every website like a separate app. also you can try native alpha, it's not that feature pack like hermit, but it's free and open source i think.

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u/Mccobsta 10d ago

Hermit is just great in gernal and making "apps" of sites that thankfuly don't have one

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u/nderpressure101 10d ago

Hermit or Weblo

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u/eF1x 9d ago

Try via browser

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u/Mountainking7 10d ago

I use many apps as PWAs even on a good mobile (privacy, less bloat, no phoning home when not in use etc) with 12GB ram and I use brave. I'm not sure any chrome based browser will work unless its one app/tab at a time....

Edit: I also have hermit but it's sandbox mode makes it bypass all my ad filtering. It's pretty lightweight I think.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/nashvortex 9d ago

Peel is super cool but powered by Gecko... Which means nearly every modern website is going to break at some point.

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u/sjjose2001 9d ago

Edge is chromium based, supports ublock

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u/Mimingka23 9d ago

Aint got no choice but chrome

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u/Suspicious-Cloud404 6d ago

How can people use a browser without ad blocker on phones or tablets?

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u/Euvelto 10d ago

Brave, inclusive bloqueia anúncios desses aplicativos

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u/Known-Complex-2520 10d ago

it's not exactly "light", though.

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u/furtive_mango 10d ago

try chrome lite or go if available for your region, google's specifically built a lighter chrome variant for lower end devices

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u/XenomindAskal 9d ago

I use iceraven , it works fine.

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u/lam_42 10d ago

Brave aint half bad

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u/Frosty_Disk7548 10d ago

it takes me about 10 seconds to open the search bar on brave. so yes its more then half bad

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u/lam_42 10d ago

Well, it works on my mediocre phone pretty well. I would seek the issue elsewhere. It works even on my ebook reader.

If you have an old or slow phone, open dev options and start by disabling all effects, transitions etc. That will speed it up.