ElixirBrowser
Android Chromium fork with extensions, inspired by Kiwi
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I built this as a personal replacement for Kiwi Browser, since it is now archived.It brings Chrome extensions to Android. I just wanted something that works fast and feels right for daily use.If Firefox and Edge just don't feel right on Android, and you prefer Chromium but are too lazy to maintain your own fork, this might be the answer. Just don't expect too much—I really just built this for myself.P.S. I realized the name clash with Elixir lang after finishing it. Well, whatever.
HN · launched Jan 9, 2026 · 16 upvotes (top 38%) · 0 views
Niche: specialized and developer web browsers · 83 launches, 9 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Forking Chromium for Android and patching the C++ native codebase to enable desktop Chrome extensions requires extensive Chromium internals expertise and massive build infrastructure.
What it would actually take: Requires maintaining a custom C++ fork of the Chromium Android upstream codebase with specialized patches to bypass mobile extension restrictions and expose chrome.* extension APIs on Android. Building Chromium requires specialized depot_tools pipelines, hundreds of gigabytes of disk space, and significant C++/NDK system programming knowledge.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #28 of 75 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 8 days after the earliest competitor.
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