ladybird
ungoogled-chromium
ladybird | ungoogled-chromium | |
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19 | 405 | |
1,562 | 18,979 | |
- | 1.8% | |
8.9 | 8.7 | |
over 1 year ago | 4 days ago | |
C++ | Python | |
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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ladybird
- The illusion of free choice
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Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy
A browser is not a web app, it doesn't have a strict separation of "frontend" and "backend" in the same sense that a web app would have; the lines are drawn quite differently. The rendering engine is never "just" the rendering engine; you can't abstract or swap it without tremendous effort.
If you'd like to learn more about how a web browser project would organize its internal architecture, but are discouraged by the complexity of Chromium, Firefox, etc. I'd recommend source diving Ladybird (https://github.com/SerenityOS/ladybird), NetSurf (https://www.netsurf-browser.org/), or Dillo (https://www.dillo.org/).
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What Beta-Browsers are you all looking forward to have an official release?
I'd love to see a stable version of a brand new web browser, not based on Blink or Gecko, such as Ladybird or Flow Browser. Competition is a good thing.
- The Ladybird Web Browser
- What's the status of Servo right now?
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Ladybird, the from-scratch SerenityOS browser, can now display Google Docs
note, native Windows is not currently supported:
https://github.com/SerenityOS/ladybird/issues/113
- Github.com on Ladybird, new browser with JavaScript/CSS/SVG engines from scratch
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Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS
Google is dominating, pushing through Android and via Googles-Webservices and Microsoft is using it now. A reason to worry because developing new web-engine requires an big effort. For instance Microsoft only allows usage of Microsoft Teams Web with a webbrowser based upon Blink. So were back in 2002?
WebKit features also WebKit2Gtk (Epiphany) and Qt5-webkit (Otter) with native integration. They use the native toolkits, which is an advantage! Interaction with the open-source community around WebKit seems rather good and the engine is integrated by others. Gecko seem not to be integrated by others, but by forks only? You remember when Chrome was considered slick and fast? Originally Google used the native toolkit on every platform but know they use an own solution on every platform, like Firefox.
Maybe there is a new kid on the block:
https://github.com/SerenityOS/ladybird
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In light of the recent news about Google’s war on adblockers, I’ve made a poster of sort
Funny you should ask: https://github.com/SerenityOS/ladybird
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Sounds like fun for Web Developers ...
I've not heard of Ladybird before. True, it's a free and open browser engine and a very interesting project!
ungoogled-chromium
- console.log(DOOM)
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Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive
Cromite[0] is the best on Android, it's a privacy-oriented open source patchset on top of Chromium.
Cromite has a desktop build, but it's a bit more experimental than the mobile build, so you can use Ungoogled Chromium[1] instead. Ungoogled is also a privacy-oriented open source patchset on top of Chromium. Check the beta flags to enable some more interesting features like getClientRect anti-fingerprinting measures (unfortunately breaks some React-based sites that go into infinite re-render loop).
Both of these browsers selectively include patches from Brave, but they are community-oriented builds so imo more trustworthy than Brave, which continues to package various shady anti-features and always will because it's backed by a for-profit company.
LibreWolf[2] is the nicest Firefox-based one for desktop, I think. It's pretty hardcore, though, I most only use it to visit mainstream social media sites.
I tried a bunch of the Firefox-based ones on mobile and none of them clicked for me. Cromite is just too slick on Android. Put the address bar at the bottom and off you go. Only downside is no online syncing of tabs and bookmarks, but meh. You can save all open tabs to bookmark bar in one hit then export your bookmarks, send the file through whatever E2EE channel you want to your other device and import then reopen them again.
[0] https://github.com/uazo/cromite
[1] https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
[2] https://librewolf.net/
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Browsers Are Weird
For those that like Chromium but want to remove any integration with Google, there's Ungoogled Chromium
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
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What is the safest and best browser to use???
If you're entirely partial to Chromium browsers, use Ungoogled Chrome https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
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Mozilla CEO received $6,9m salary in 2022, a $2m increase from 2021, meanwhile Firefox has lost 30m of its userbase since 2020.
what about https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
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any working adBlock for YouTube?
Firefox or Ungoogled Chromium (needs to update uBlock manually) in Incognito window with unchanged vanilla uBlock Origin with lists updated and no other plugins and without YouTube account. Works perfectly. Also FreeTube.
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Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent
Ungoogled Chromium is a Chromium-based browser with Google services stripped out.
- Project and source: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
- Binaries: https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-bina...
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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
Using these sort of downstream patch set browsers is rarely a good idea. If it has multiple full-time developers from a respected org dedicated to it, then it can be justifiable (Tor Browser, Brave), but take a look at the gaps in time for these two pages:
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/rel...
https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/c/ch...
There's often days you're going without security patches. If you want a browser without Google tracking, Firefox is a much better choice.
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Installing Chrome extension from raw source code
While these screenshots use Google Chrome, they will also work on all 'Chromium' based web browsers, like Brave, Vivaldi, ungoogled-chromium, etc. Window's Edge is also compatible, though some the button locations are changed.
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Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn
I would highly recommend the Ungoogled Chromium fork instead: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
Entirely volunteer maintained, there is no for-profit entity behind it looking to do crypto referrals or ad swapping or anything like that.
What are some alternatives?
wpt - Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
chromium - The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
serenity - The Serenity Operating System 🐞
bromite - Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!
netsurf - netsurf
brave-core - Core engine for the Brave browser for mobile and desktop. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues
browser-base - Modern and feature-rich web browser base based on Electron
browser
servoshell - A work-in-progress user interface for Servo, built in Rust.
iridium-browser - Iridium Browser source code
splitbrowser - Split Browser - a minimalistic, ultra-lightweight, open source web browser based on WebKit/Ultralight/native webview with a split screen (tiled) view
thorium - Chromium fork named after radioactive element No. 90. Windows and MacOS/Raspi/Android/Special builds are in different repositories, links are towards the top of the README.md.