Top 11 C++ Browser Projects

serenity

240 28,519 10.0 C++

The Serenity Operating System 🐞

Project mention: Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-09

SerenityOS replicates that look and feel. It is also implemented in a dialect of C++ that adheres to some of the good parts of C++98: https://serenityos.org

cef

15 2,963 9.0 C++

Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). A simple framework for embedding Chromium-based browsers in other applications.

Project mention: Integrate web support in sfml | /r/programming | 2023-11-07

If you absolutely need SFML and the web stack side by side, you might want to look into CEF and similar.

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
otter-browser

15 1,765 9.5 C++

Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5

Project mention: Ask HN: Is there a web browser, that's just a browser? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-26

duckdb-wasm

11 916 9.6 C++

WebAssembly version of DuckDB

Project mention: Parquet-WASM: Rust-based WebAssembly bindings to read and write Parquet data | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-22

i think duckdb-wasm is closer to 6MB over wire, but ~36MB once decompressed. (see net panel when loading https://shell.duckdb.org/)
the decompressed size should be okay since it's not the same as parsing and JITing 36MB of JS.

ESPUI

2 818 7.8 C++

A simple web user interface library for ESP32 and ESP8266

Project mention: How are you guys building the web pages to interface with your projects? | /r/esp32 | 2023-09-09

kristall

3 723 7.1 C++

Graphical small-internet client for windows, linux, MacOS X and BSDs. Supports gemini, http, https, gopher, finger.
dillo

9 242 8.8 C++

Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser

Project mention: Ede – An Fltk based desktop environment | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-03

Sort-of mentioned this in a previous comment also, but I suppose FLTK is alive and well for regular users of Tiny Core Linux (of whom there are quite a bit, I guess -- myself included). The recently resurrected Dillo web browser also relies on it: https://dillo-browser.github.io/

WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
Viper-Browser

6 198 0.0 C++

A lightweight Qt5 web browser using QtWebEngine
beacon

10 131 0.0 C++

Beacon browser for desktop (by imperviousinc)
canonic

14 115 3.8 C++

QML web browser
dillo-plus

2 62 7.9 C++

A lightweight web browser based on Dillo but with many improvements, such as: support for http, https, gemini, gopher, epub, reader mode and more...

Project mention: Resurrecting the Dillo Browser | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-02

The Dillo+ (Dillo-Plus) project has already added Gopher and Gemini support to their fork of Dillo:
https://github.com/crossbowerbt/dillo-plus

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).