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Onitor Browser

A free and simple UWP based browser for Mobile (and Desktop) with a range of feature to try to improve browsing on Windows Mobile

Recent changes

- Added "GlobalLocalSettings to load all settings once on start, instead of every time the value is needed
- History list changed to a SplitView pane like Favourites
- Added dedicated Page Settings page and improved backend for per page user agent
- Replaced original right click context menu with a new improved one that works with Mobile using javascript events to detect content
- Ability do view all javascript events that get passed to the console
- Fixed external links not using the preferred user agent
- Attempts to improve memory usage
- Attempts to fix some pages now finishing loading
- added Qwant search engine
- Improved hiding UI when viewing full screen video
- Changed UI for selecting Search Engine
- Added option to fix tiles that are pinned to Start Menu
- View current memory usage
- Javascript Console log added
- Two libraries added thanks to @basharast that aid with the javascript to c# bridge for the context menu

Features

  • Blocks Ads and XHR requests
  • Tabbed browsing
  • Light and dark themes support, including on sites*
  • Easy page navigation
  • Switch between Mobile and Desktop views for pages
  • Camera and microphone, web notifications access or Location permissions (if allowed)
  • Bookmarks
  • History
  • User selectable search engine (Bing, Google, and Yahoo)
  • Set start page
  • Basic Download manager (One download at a time currently) with progress in-app
  • Print
  • Share
  • Pin webpage to Start with the page's icon
  • Changeable user agents
  • Automatic User Agent switching for certain websites
  • Webpage Translation
  • Ability to set as default browser (W10M must use the .reg file in the repo, instructions will be available upon release)
  • Able to launch external links in Onitor
  • Import bookmarks from other Desktop browsers
  • Dedicated Page Settings for specific website domains
  • Javascript log console

Known Issues

  • WebView has issues with Memory Leaks with it's navigation cache and when streaming video content
  • On rare occasions some pages fail to load properly
  • On rare occasions Page Settings get reset on app launch

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