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
Just for awareness, this project is heavily vibe/agentically coded:
https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/northstar-browser
Claude is the primary contributor, making most of the commits. I usually see it as the co-author, but for this project, it is the sole author of most commits.
Make of it what you will.
Sections of code written by AI cannot be copyrighted, as such I assume the GPL cannot apply to those. Knowing what is copyrighted, and what it not, may be difficult to tell.
As far as I know.
Is that a fucking joke?? You think that a browser is a software you can simply do in you free times??
For the people coming in the comment section : That’s a fucking dangerous thing to download IMHO. There is nothing protecting you against all what you can get on the raw internet using this shit.
Don’t put your dick in AIDS, don’t put this “browser” on your system!
That’s a restaurant near me and they make the best fucking pancakes in existence.
