Permission requesting does not work on Kiwi browser

[matejdro]

• My browser (copy from https://www.whatismybrowser.com): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowser.browser (but it what is my browser states "Chrome 124 on Android 14")
• My RES version: 5.24.7
• Am I in reddit beta (yes/no): no

What's the problem?

It seems permission request is broken when using Kiwi browser (A Chrome clone for Android that can use extensions). It can be reproduced using following steps:

1. Install Kiwi browser (if you don't have an Android device nearby, you can use something like Bluestacks)
2. Install RES in Kiwi browser
3. Open RES settings console on Reddit
4. Toggle requestPermissions setting
5. Permissions popup should show up
6. Tap on the request permission button

BUG: Button will only open permission popup again. There seems to be no way to actually grant the permission.

Are there any related posts in https://github.com/honestbleeps/Reddit-Enhancement-Suite/issues or /r/RESissues?

One question, with no answer: https://www.reddit.com/r/Enhancement/comments/tat5ji/using_res_on_kiwi_browser_on_android_permission/

[benmcgarry]

Kiwi browser is not a supported browser by RES as we do not support any Chromium based browsers on mobile. This would be a report to them for not supporting the MV3 APIs we use for Chrome desktop.

[matejdro]

What API exactly is missing? So I know, what to report.

[benmcgarry]

Not sure, we use MV3 permission APIs (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/permissions). We would call it and its up to the browser to respond and grant.

[eldorel]

I use kiwi as well, and previously the permissions did work.

I was using kiwi on my previous phone and syncing to Google drive with no problems, but attempting to connect my new phone to pull my settings back down has run into this problem.
Unfortunately that's a ~ 2-year window in between the last two times I've tried to do this.

Another (inconclusive) datapoint is that I have not run into permissions issues with any other extension so far.

@matejdro If you've already opened an issue with kiwi, do you mind linking it here so that people can go comment there as well?

[matejdro]

I made an issue but it looks like it was deleted (they moved repos around recently).

However, it looks like Kiwi might be a bit dead at the moment: https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src.next/issues/1195

I have since switched to Firefox Nightly, but that one also has similar issue, nothing happens when changing permissions. @benmcgarry should I create a separate issue for Firefox?