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Asked: 2026-05-15T01:15:23+00:00

I want to shape my own browser or at least modify a existing one

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I want to shape my own browser or at least modify a existing one so far that it meets my needs.

I want a fast browser (starting and running, not necessarily faster rendering) without any stuff I don’t use and simple productive navigation (like Firefox + Vimperator + Tree Style Tab), only much more integrated into each other and a different GUI.

I was thinking about just looking into the current two top browsers chrome and firefox (open-source wise) and branch my own smaller version out of it.

By just using WebKit or Gecko I will have to implement all the Connection-stuff, too, but I really am not interested in doing that.

So my questions are:

  1. Does it make sense to start off with a current browser and strip off certain features and the frontend and replace it with my own code?

  2. Chrome or Firefox? Which one is less complex? I don’t care much about Plugins and Extensions, so they aren’t they pretty much even in features otherwise?

Thanks for your answers

p.s.: It’s a just-for-fun at-home project, so please no “just use the browsers…”-stuff…

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  1. Editorial Team

    The best point would be looking at the webkit project: http://webkit.org/.

    This is basically the skeleton for a browser or a framework to create a new browser.

    Safari and konqueror were build using the webkit framework.

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