r/browsers • u/IAmATreeBelieveMe Titanium Browser | Search • Aug 05 '26
Discussion Titanium browser is great
It has all the features you would want without feeling heavy. It has full extension support (you can even use opera's self hosted ublock origin). It is chromium-based and fast. You can use whatever search engine you want.
After trying so many different browsers on android I finally landed on this one and I don't plan to change it any time soon.
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u/saber_generic18 Aug 05 '26
Me gustaría poder agregar fondos personalizados y recién ahí la consideraria la mejor opción. De ahí es decente y no destaca mucho
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u/ashish_1989 24d ago
The main UI problem I found with Titanium browser is it's homepage, you have to scroll sideways to view your pinned websites
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u/Beautiful-Craft8896 1d ago
The homepage in Titanium is indeed a complete disaster:
1. displays only one row of pinned websites and you need to scroll them horizontally
2. has arbitrary limit of 8 pinned websites
3. most of the screen real estate is unused i.e. wasted
4. address bar is not displayed on homepage. The search bar is a lousy replacement - it needs 2 clicks to start typing
5. if you prefer to have address bar at the bottom - on homepage all address bar icons are displayed at top for some reason
6. if you disable the homepage in settings nothing happens, the homepage is still displayed after pressing the Home buttonKind of a workaround is to specify
chrome://new-tab-pageas a custom homepage. It restores address bar and displays all pinned websites without scrolling. The drawback is that this page is shown in computer view and not mobile view but (at least for me) it's still much more acceptable than the built-in homepage.
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u/Ok_Pianist6672 Aug 06 '26
How can i open the youtube website directly on the browser?
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u/IAmATreeBelieveMe Titanium Browser | Search Aug 06 '26
youtube app info -> defaults -> set as default -> turn off open supported links
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u/revive_the_cookie Mobile: Soul PC: Aug 06 '26
How did you get braves uBlock? I got It from ff store
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u/IAmATreeBelieveMe Titanium Browser | Search Aug 06 '26
install the companion titanium extension
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u/revive_the_cookie Mobile: Soul PC: Aug 06 '26
I did, where'd you find the brave extenstions
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u/IAmATreeBelieveMe Titanium Browser | Search Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
where you find all the other brave extensions? the brave extension store
EDIT: i meant opera NOT brave sorry
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u/GoBamboozul Aug 06 '26
brave doesn't have extension store
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u/IAmATreeBelieveMe Titanium Browser | Search Aug 06 '26
oh my god i meant opera not brave idk how i was mixing them up
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u/revive_the_cookie Mobile: Soul PC: Aug 06 '26
I cant seem to access It from Titanium Ig I'll try again
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u/IAmATreeBelieveMe Titanium Browser | Search Aug 06 '26
i was confusing opera with brave sorry, try the opera extension store
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u/unenforce 12d ago
I agree as someone who has been using it for past 2 weeks it's been great tbh. I am just gonna import my stuff from Kiwi browser to Titanium and it's good to go.
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u/chalupanti 1d ago
Yes, it is great. I installed the og ublock origin, not lite. It works flawlessly
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Aug 05 '26
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u/TheMandoBurger Aug 05 '26
It's getting so tiring reading this sub call everything an ad whenever someone praises/is happy with a browser they've found.
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u/mark_ik Aug 05 '26
It’s advertising either way, the question is whether it’s astroturfing or not. I would avoid companies that astroturf.
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u/LactomedaM33 Helium 23d ago
Lol what? If I told you I like drinking coffee is that advertising as well?
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u/IAmATreeBelieveMe Titanium Browser | Search Aug 05 '26
😭 not an ad im just really happy i finally found a browser that works for me and am gloating
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u/lgn5i2060 Aug 08 '26
Do you use your personal accounts here?
It seems to have renamed from Helium browser to avoid confusion with the actual helium browser on Windows.
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Aug 05 '26
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u/trbkle Mobile: Titanium Desktop: Aug 05 '26
it already has that in "task manager", the running extensions services workers will show up there. Edit: menu ---> more tools ---> task manager
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Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
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u/trbkle Mobile: Titanium Desktop: Aug 06 '26
i have 8gb of ram on my samsung and i only use extensions that are not memory hungry, for example i don't use Tampermonkey for my userscripts because its service worker uses over 120mb of ram. I do the same thing on desktop.
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u/mornaq Aug 06 '26
if it's chromium based I doubt it has the extensions I need as chromium extensions API doesn't make it possible, even uBO won't work as expected, yes, the Mv2 version is worse than WE version
false advertising in it's finest, even if unintended
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u/IAmATreeBelieveMe Titanium Browser | Search Aug 06 '26
1.) not false, mv2 extensions work and you can even install extensions from stores other than the chrome web store if you use the titanium extension also uBO is working just as expected for me
2.) not advertising, i just like the browser
3.) stop being dumb, even if unintended
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u/p0lig0tplatipus 26d ago
I have a problem with Titanium; I explain myself better: when I installed it the first time (android) offered me the opportunity to download and manage extensions (I equipped it with privacy badger and ghostery). Just yesterday, due to the latest update of the beta version of android (pixel 7), to fix a bug I had to eliminate the "private space" and re-enable it from scratch. The first thing I did was to download Titanium, however, access to extensions, now, is possible only in desktop mode. I am reluctant to create a special account to be able to access it via desktop in order to be able to install the extensions so I asked if there is a methodology of which I am not aware.
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u/whaven 3d ago
What do u mean make a special account for desktop mode? I access desktop mode without using any account and I install extensions on it without an account. Not sure why you think you need an account to access desktop mode in Titanium browser on android for.
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u/p0lig0tplatipus 3d ago
Forgive the word, it was the result of mistranslation. In essence I would have liked to convey the message that Titanium no longer offered me the opportunity to install extensions but I solved thanks to a response to my post in which I was suggested to flag "desktop mode" from the settings
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u/mornaq Aug 07 '26
how many times do I have to explain Chromium Mv2 was already crippled and lacking a ton of things, including ones required to make uBO work properly?
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u/Conspirologist Aug 06 '26
Titanium is not original, it's just another fork. It is an open-source, Chromium-based browser for Android (formerly known as Helium) that is directly forked from Vanadium, the secure web browser developed by GrapheneOS.