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Serious props to you for making a web browser. That is legitimately impressive.

However I feel like most people won't be willing to sacrifice the feature support, stability and security that a larger browser can provide for a potentially better experience.

If this was made by a single person you should really do a write up about the development process. I think many people would also be interested in that.

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It's built on Electron[0] which is built on Chromium, so it's very much building on the work of a larger browser and just adding a (seemingly) very different UI experience.

[0] http://electron.atom.io/

> ... built on ... built on ...

Well, considering the dependencies, it is impressive that it still is lightweight :)

It's "lightweight" in terms of UI, not in terms of speed or (especially) file size.

The user experience is not bloated and it stays out of your way, but it is very much not a small program. Electron-based anything is huge, on the order of ~100MB.

You're trying to praise something, but it ends up as an insult of sorts, because you haven't made a slightest effort to figure out what's before you.

Well he commented that it was made with chromium, which I think probably sorts out the three issues that I mentioned.

I would install it, but I am on my windows partition.

It builds for Windows.

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