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Eduard Ursu edited this page Mar 15, 2022 · 2 revisions

How to contribute

  1. Press Fork on the top right.
  2. In your fork, edit the file you want from the branch called kiwi.
  3. In your fork, go to Actions, run the workflow "Any branch: Build apk" on the branch you want to test.
  4. You will get an APK you can test on your phone.
  5. If you are happy with the result, open a Pull request from your branch to branch kiwibrowser/src.next:kiwi.

To improve Kiwi, you don't need to download anything to your computer. All you need is a browser, and you know which one is good to use ;)

Improving Kiwi Browser

Kiwi Browser is technically a re-based fork of Chromium. This means that the code of Chromium is taken, and modifications are applied on top. Once the modifications are live, this is Kiwi.

When we mean rebase, in the context of this project, we mean that we take a bunch of code, and we apply modification on top.

The repository of Chromium is huge. You need 100 GB of disk space, and a lot of computing power.

If you want to make Kiwi better, stay in this repository, you need only the files from Kiwi.

It will make your life easier.

If you want to work on a full repository (e.g. to make a completely different fork of Kiwi or to experiment very advanced changes, use http://github.com/kiwibrowser/src ) but this is going to be very difficult as you have to handle all the Chromium version changes by hand.

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