Privacy Browser 3.0.1 has been released. This is a bugfix release to correct a couple of serious bugs in the tabbed browsing interface that couldn’t wait for 3.1. A couple of other items were also added to release because they were ready to go in time and resolved less serious bugs. Because some people don’t…

Anyone who has been following these posts for a while has noticed the running thread of limitations caused by Android’s WebView, which is why the 4.x series is going to include a forked version called Privacy WebView. While developing tabbed browsing I discovered that first-party cookies are enabled/disabled by app, while third-party cookies are enabled/disabled…

Privacy Browser 3.0 has been released. The major feature is the long awaited tabbed browsing. Using a tab layout generally works well, and in some cases is even better than I imagined it would be. The favorite icon has been moved from the URL bar down to the left of each tab. This helps with…

March 14 Update: Redmine is working again. There is a bug in the current Debian Redmine package that prevents users from being able to log into the site. I have reported the bug to the package maintainers, but it is uncertain how long it will take them to upload a fixed version. Currently we can…

Privacy Browser 2.17.1 has been released to address a bug that caused Privacy Browser to crash if a bookmark was created with a very large favorite icon. This bug has existed ever since bookmarks were added to Privacy Browser in version 1.8, but nobody ever noticed until now because most websites are polite enough not…

Privacy Browser 2.17 has been released. The app bar now scrolls off the screen when the WebView is scrolled down and reappears when the WebView is scrolled up. This was an important prerequisite in preparation for tabbed browsing, as the tab interface will take additional screen real estate that would be bothersome if it couldn’t…

The release of Privacy Browser happened earlier than I anticipated due to a need to fix an urgent bug, introduced in 2.15, that caused SSL certificate pinning to be ignored unless navigating history using the forward/back buttons or the history list. Not all of the planned features for 2.16 had been completed when this bug…