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I wrote a couple custom browsers for both pro and personal reasons. I found out that there is a tiny niche market for a privacy-focused, minimalist browser that a) does not understand cookies, b) executes JS only when allowed to and c) is capable of displaying most decent Web sites without garbling them. I had good success with using Chromium as backend, and slowly adding the stuff we do need (download manager, password vault, auto-complete). Turns out it's quite easy to setup, but there's one annoying chunk: dealing with creating tabs or new windows. 'Modern' Web sites use and abuse that mechanism to display pop-ups, and it's quite a challenge to handle. Good luck to ya!


> I found out that there is a tiny niche market for a privacy-focused, minimalist browser

You mean like Orion by Kagi, Mullvad Browser, Brave, Falkon, Safari, DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser, Firefox Focus, Midori?

I feel like the best browser in this market has yet to show itself.

I doubt it will be one where the author claims it will fail.


"just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu".

At the start of a project, it can be difficult to know if it will snowball, and since most projects don't, creators often feel like they have to get in ahead of the negativity and set expectations.


Making a browser is a big undertaking, and I would set the same level of ambition. And then I wouldn’t post it on a forum until it has reached a milestone. :-)


If you used Chromium to "write a browser" then in no way did you write a browser. You wrapped Chromium.


There's a joke about the latest wave of "AI" companies in here somewhere...


Yes agreed, I meant writing a wrapper. Writing a browser engine isn't my cup of tea :)


Is your work open source?




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