Northstar is a minimalist web browser written from scratch in C. One window, one page, one process — about 160,000 lines of original C, small enough for one person to read and audit end-to-end. It carries no upstream browser engine: no Gecko, no WebKit, no Blink. It is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later, and it runs on Linux, macOS and Windows — on Windows from the Microsoft Store.
Northstar Browser version 1.0.12 released! A sunny ark comic on about:start, a classic Mozilla-style toolbar with address-bar suggestions, relayout and repaint that only redo what changed, popovers per the HTML standard, the Microsoft Store package, an 8 MB engine stack, and a build on Fabrice Bellard’s original QuickJS
The browser feels vibecoded. It kinda works but it is PISS FUCKING SLOW with a massive memory leak. The page formatting works most of the time, but it breaks on the most random ass shit.
It feels like in the 5 minutes of using this browser I have tested it more then the actual “”“devs”“”.
Is opera not a good alternative?
No, they’ve been bought out by a super shady company years ago. They’re also chromium now. The original Opera team partially moved to create Vivaldi, also Chromium.
Opera is also based on chrome. If your goal is to not use Google chrome then yes. Servo is not based on chrome or firefox. It is completely its own thing.
May be they forgot to add “Make no mistakes” in their prompt.
You are far braver than I am. I have zero interest in running that sort of bullshit on any of my machines.