Nordstjernen, Northstar, Southstar: minimalist webbrowsers in C and Rust

Propelloni

Minimalist web browsers written from scratch in C (Nordstjernen, Northstar) or Rust (Southstar).

lysace

So, is the creator Norwegian, Danish or neither?

Deeg9rie9usi

See: https://lwn.net/Articles/1102738/

netsharc

Ha, nice homage to the Netscape "loading" GIF: the N in the corner. When Netscape was connecting to a website and loading the page (over your dozens of kilobits per second modem), there would be shooting stars behind the N (1). Because navigators relied on the night sky, I suppose. (1) https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/6oqzjv/the_netsc... I've managed to pimp my Vivaldi installation to have the animated N as well: it allows custom user profile icons, and when you set it to an animated GIF, it animates as well. Add a custom CSS for the browser UI so that the profile icon is square and not circular: we're back in the 90's!

emilbratt

If I understand this correctly, Andreas Røsdal wants people to adopt first before putting in work. Thats the wrong way around. You make a great project -> people notice and like it -> you improve -> more people notice.. and circle continues.

VoidWhisperer

Interesting how he said (when facing issues getting packaged for Debian and Arch) that the project was stopping AI as of Oct 2026[0].. but if you check the projects, as of writing this comment, one of them had a Claude co-authored commit dated 7 hours ago [1]. Edit: Just to clarify, I would love to see more browser engine diversity, especially open source, but the guy running the project saying one thing and doing the opposite kind of rubs me the wrong way. [0]: https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/northstar-web-browser/co... [1]: https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/northstar-web-browser/co...