Privacy Browser Android 3.19.2 was released on 10 January 2025. It fixes a layout problem with the bookmarks drawer on Android <= 10 (API <= 29). On Android <= 9 (API <= 28) there is an odd glitch (at least on my emulators) that causes the layout of the drawer to have issues when the…

Privacy Browser Android 3.19.1 was released on 2 January 2025. It fixes a crash when loading the About or Import/Export activities if OpenKeychain (both About and Import/Export) or Orbot (just About) is not installed. The cause appears to be a change in how installed packages are queried when targeting API 35 (Android 15). These activities…

Privacy Browser Android 3.19 was released on 31 December 2024. Users can now choose to sort bookmarks alphabetically, with folders before bookmarks. When doing so, manually adjusting the sort order is disabled. When not sorting bookmarks alphabetically, there are now options to move a bookmark to the top or the bottom, instead of just the…

Privacy Browser Android 3.18.1 was released on 22 July 2024. It contains a single fix for a problem with the items in the Navigation Drawer not always displaying if they are disabled. This was a problem with Google’s Android Material library version 1.12.0, which shipped with 3.18. The solution was to update to version 1.13.0-alpha04…

The referer header is an optional header that informs the website you are visiting of the URL of the previous website (assuming you clicked a link to get to the current site instead of typing the URL into the address bar). It has no good reason to exist, but those who want to track you…

Privacy Browser Android 3.18 was released on 27 May 2024. Initially I was planning to wait for the implementation of fine grained cookie management for the 3.18 release, but a user discovered a bug that caused the file picker to not be able to select desired files on some websites. Being able to upload files…

Privacy Browser Android 3.3 introduces the option to select a custom proxy in the format of scheme://host:port as described in the ProxyConfig.Builder documentation. There are two preconfigured options, one for Tor which uses socks://localhost:9050 and a second one for I2P which uses http://localhost:4444. Selecting the Tor or I2P options produce an error message if the…

Privacy Browser Android 3.17 was released on 12 February 2024. It adds Android’s download manager as an available download provider. Some historical context is helpful for understanding this change. When Privacy Browser Android was first released it used Android’s download manager for handing file downloads. This was nice because it is built into Android. But…