What’s New at Chimbori ✨

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🆕 New app icon! So many of you told us you loved the Hermit Crab, so it’s back!
🆕 Use any External Download Manager for files, and change the filename before starting the download.
🆕 Site Search is now accessible from the Quick Settings sidebar even in Frameless mode.
🆕 Enable/disable Bookmarks without deleting them.

Free Forever Mode Improvements: You can reorder your Lite Apps any time, as often as you want, to change which 3 are your Free Forever Lite Apps.
Night Mode: When switching for the first time to Night Mode, the default page style is automatically set to Dark. Previously, this required an extra step of changing the style manually.
Estimated Reading Time in Reader View: When reading any article on the Web, Hermit automatically computes Estimated Reading Time and offers a quick shortcut to clean up the page and view it in Reader View, including fonts, formatting, and images.
Instant Reader View: Hermit reuses the same HTML that was downloaded for the page in your browser: this makes it instant, saves network costs, and includes JavaScript-generated content automatically.

🆕 Android O: The version has no name, but new features are coming. Hermit is ready for Android O!
🆕 Notification Channels: Control every aspect of Lite App notifications through Android O’s centralized notification manager.
🆕 New Shortcuts API: Sadly, on Android O, shortcut icons are no longer as pretty as they used to be, so read this first.
🆕 Phishing and Malware Protection: If any malware sites manage to get through Hermit’s Ad & Malware Blocker (which is already very restrictive), then they will be automatically flagged by Google’s Malware Blocker (the same as what is used in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari). Read more about Privacy-Focused Blocking.

🆕 Web Monitors — track changes to any Web Page, e.g. Facebook Notifications
🆕 Improved flow to add multiple Lite Apps at once: one-click for Lite Apps from Library, and many more options for Create Your Own (monogram, custom icon, colors, etc.)
🆕 Auto Update all Lite Apps from the Hermit Library (no action required to get new features in individual Lite Apps)
🆕 Allow sharing articles to native apps such as WhatsApp and SMS. (Note: installing new native apps is still blocked for your protection)

New Unlocker App: Hermit Premium can now be purchased via a separate Unlocker App.
📖 Reader Mode: Read the Web the way you want: no ads, no navigation bars, no clutter.
📰 Text Browser: Reader Mode in Hermit is not a dead end. Unlike many other browsers, you can switch between Reader Mode and Web Mode whenever you want.