Preparing a megathread about android FOSS apps – Part six (Web Browsers, Important utilities and forgotten apps)

Thread to discuss webbrowsers, important utilities, and apps that we have forgotten about previously but cannot live without. In short , all apps you want to see on the final megathread.

Next week, I will open a thread to discuss some details and thoughts with the entire community to build the megathread.

Previsouly discussions

Discussion about Contacts, SMS and Dialers app is here.

Discussion about Calculators, Cameras and Calendars apps is here.

Discussion about Manager files, Recorders, Galleries and Video editors apps is here.

Discussion about Keyboards, Notes, Maps and Music Players apps is here

Discussion about Weather, Stores, social media and related stuff apps is here

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Honest question. Are there any FOSS Android browsers? I use Mull or SmartCookieWebPreview. Even Mull gets the 'the upstream code is not free' on F-Droid.
Obviously Chromium is out, Webviews are just a wrapper for Chromium.
Does that leave anything?
- Firefox is open source last I checked. On Android it runs its own engine and everything. It may not be on FDroid, but that doesn't mean it's not open source.
- https://divestos.org/pages/our_apps
  It is compiled from source and proprietary blobs are removed using scripts by Relan from here.
- Be brave
  
  Brave, you mean Chromium with crypto?
  
  That's debunked
  
  I need less info.
  It is not Chromium?
  There is no crypto?
  
  Degoogled chromium. There is no crypto. It is a lie spread by google in the fear of losing marketshare.
  
  There is no crypto.
  I've been using Brave since it was based on Muon. It has absolutely always been about crypto and advertising. The goal was, and still fundamentally is, to eventually bring private advertising to the masses and give everyone (the ad viewer, Brave, and the advertiser) a bigger cut.
  
  Do you mean ungoogled chromium? It has been abandoned for almost two years. Honestly, what are you talking about? You say brave, then you say 'degoogled chromium'. They are nit the same, neither is a viable FOSS option currently.
  https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-android

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