Blitz Browser 4 Readers

Paginated browser without animations and with high contrast mono (B/W) rendering based on the Lightning Browser

Instant PageUp/PageDn, no more unreadable grays, no more disturbing screen animations, never need to scroll!

Speed, Simplicity, Security

Download

A version tested by me on Tolino Shine 3 and on Onyx Boox Max 2 is in the Releases page

Features

• Customized for Android(tm) eInk(tm) eReaders(tm) like the Tolino Shine 3 Customized like in this guide

• Increased contrast and monocromatic

• PageDn by touching the bottom right corner

• PageUp by touching the top right corner of the page content

• Bookmarks

• History

• Multiple search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo, StartPage, DuckDuckGo, etc.)

• Incognito mode

• Follows Google design guidelines

• Unique utilization of navigation drawer for tabs

• Google search suggestions

• Orbot Proxy support and I2P support

Permissions

Automatically granted

• INTERNET: necessary to access the internet.
• ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE: used by the browser to stop loading resources when network access is lost.
• INSTALL_SHORTCUT: used to add shortcuts with the "Add to home screen" option.

Requested only when needed

• WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: needed to download files and export bookmarks.
• READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: needed to download files and import bookmarks.
• ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION: needed for sites like Google Maps, requires "Location access" option to be enabled (default disabled).
• RECORD_AUDIO: needed to support WebRTC, requires "WebRTC Support" option to be enabled (default disabled).
• CAMERA: needed to support WebRTC, requires "WebRTC Support" option to be enabled (default disabled).
• MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS: needed to support WebRTC, requires "WebRTC Support" option to be enabled (default disabled).

The Code

• Please contribute code back if you can. The code isn't perfect.
• Please add translations/translation fixes as you see need

Contributing

• Contributions are always welcome
• Make pull requests into the dev branch.

License

Copyright 2021 cgrozea for the Blitz Browser

Copyright 2014 Anthony Restaino for the Lightning Browser

   This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the 
   Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL 
   was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at 
   
   http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/