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joecool1029today at 7:37 AM1 replyview on HN

To save you having to read a really long comment thread: https://engineering.fb.com/2022/09/30/android/launching-a-ne...

Basically, FB's engineering replaced it with a full chromium based webview and explained the reasons android webview sucks ass.


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cosmotictoday at 10:09 AM

My understanding of the system webview is that applications can share the resource instead of each using their own copy, reducing memory usage and improving multi-tasking. Facebook's solution seems to side step that benefit. I use the fb browser much less frequently than my normal browser, and id rather not use the fb browser at all. I imagine this is true for most users, so the security benefit seems overstated.