# Discourse not supported on DuckDuckGo browser because of AndroidWebView

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 24, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-not-supported-on-duckduckgo-browser-because-of-androidwebview/252751 "2023-01-24T16:38:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 5:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-not-supported-on-duckduckgo-browser-because-of-androidwebview/252751/9 "2023-01-24T17:33:48Z")

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That’s very interesting. It shows that the DuckDuckGo “Browser” is just using the OS provided webview renderer 🤣

A quick Google search tells me:

> The DuckDuckGo browser uses [WebView](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView), the OS-provided rendering engine.
> 
> In its essence, it’s just a UI slapped on to WebView, which is why it’s so small. At the moment, the only WebView options are Chrome and Chromium, so basically, DDG uses Chrome/Chromium. AOSP has Chromium, but I’d imagine most phones would ship with the [Chrome WebView](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.webview).

So the problem is that your OS webview is not up to date. I think the app you need to update is

> <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.webview&hl=en&gl=US>
>
> Web content for apps, powered by Chrom...

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