"Outdated System Web View" error, despite current

https://lemmy.zip/post/60846440

Your system webview is not your default browser. It’ll usually be some version of Chromium that comes with your Android ROM.

If you have developer options enabled you can check the version.

In my case it is, it even says so here.

Keep reading, down to the “Chrome/139.0.7258.158” part.

For historical reasons, Chrome’s user-agent string says “Mozilla” and then “AppleWebKit” and then “KHTML” before finally saying “Chrome”

So why does it complain then?

As the other person said, WebView is shipped with your ROM and has nothing to do with Firefox. Every app you use that serves you content from the web will use WebView, as I understand it, you can imagine it as kind of a very minimalist browser that runs in the background?

It has been merged in #2234 but there is no comment on why this is necessary. Maybe it has to do with the rendering bug with the gray box? Idk.

I am getting the error as well but I haven’t updated my LineageOS for some months now so I deserve it lol. But yeah there should be an option to say “thank you I am aware but don’t care”

feat(android): minimum webview version requirements by aeharding · Pull Request #2234 · aeharding/voyager

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