NOTE: This project is NOT done!!! Please do not use yet and do not report issues yet. I'll remove this notice when done. You can already do basic navigation with it, if you want, but many core features will not work. Scroll further for progress.
Pronounced as "swub" /swʌb/
A Web Browser should be a Web Browser and nothing more, and it should integrate well with your system.
Goals:
- Built with GTK/Qt to integrate with DEs
- The following "extra" features I consider necessary (but nothing else):
- Adblock
- Bookmark sync
- Password sync and autofill
- Mobile client
- Decent performance, i.e. built on top 3 engines: Blink, Gecko, or WebKit
- No added privacy concerns out of the box (no telemetry, ads, or data collection)
- Not built on Chromium/Blink (it's WebKit, so we're good)
Officially supported platforms: Fedora. Will probably make an AppImage and put on crates.io.
The project is incomplete. Here's what's done:
- - basic gtk window
- - adblock
- - bookmark sync
- - password sync/autofill
- - webkit navigation
- - mobile version
Currently working on: bookmark sync
Obviously, all this will be handled by the package, but if you're building from source, this is what you've gotta do.
First, install Dependencies:
- cargo
- webkit2gtk libs
- gtk3 libs
- pkgconf
- Linux
To simply try it out, from the repo folder, run cargo run
If you want to install it somewhere:
- Build with
cargo build --release - Copy the binary "swb" from target/release to /usr/bin/
- Create the folder
~/.config/swb - Create a plugins/ folder in the install location,
~/.config/swb, and copy into it the libswb_bookmarks.so and libswb_webkit.so files from target/release/ - Copy swb.desktop to /usr/share/applications and copy swb-icon.png /usr/share/pixmap
Again, once the package is made, it will do all that jazz for you
The browser itself is built around plugins.
Want to use Firefox sync for bookmarks instead of my system? Go ahead and make a plugin for that
Want a different adblock? Go for it
Want to switch to a completely different browser engine? Be my guest!
The default system will use:
- An adblocker built on easylist
- Bookmark sync to my personal server
- Password sync on my personal server
- WebKit Gtk
The actual main window contains:
- a container for the web page rendering
- back and forward buttons
- a search bar
- a refresh button
- a bookmarks menu including a folders system
- a sync menu for logging in/logging out
- a button for updating the adblocker filter rules.
Events from the main window like searching or creating a bookmark call plugins to do the dirty work. To see what the plugin supports, look in core/src/plugin.rs
The mobile app has yet to be thought about. Might try to compile for WebAsm, create a webview wrapper for android, and get it to run in that, or I might try to actually make a new interface. Has not been decided yet.