A 3 MB WebKit browser for macOS that blocks ads before the page loads
Search – A small, fast WebKit browser for macOS
Search is a minimalist browser for macOS built on WebKit, the engine already in every Mac. It weighs about 3 MB, opens instantly, and has no toolbar, start page, or account. Built-in features include ad blocking at the network level, reading mode, a password manager in the macOS keychain, and support for Chrome extensions. The source is open, about 12,700 lines of Swift, with no dependencies beyond Apple's frameworks.
It was built by a design studio that spends its whole day in a browser and was tired of the ones that had become products. This one is a tool.
- GaryBluto
Looks like a modern equivalent to all those early 2000s to early 2010s Internet Explorer shells that were everywhere.
- jsrozner
Looks cool, but the readme is AI-generated. Absent throwing my own Fable/Astra at this and hoping it finds any bugs, how does one decide whether to trust AI-assisted software these days?
- muhammadusman
For me, this is not gonna be a daily driver but more of the one off screenshot browser so that my screenshots look super minimal with no popular browser shell in them :)
- nexo-v1
I like the minimalistic UI, nice design, and quick startup times, but how is this better than Safari in practice?
- HelloUsername
Also a nice Webkit browser on macOS: https://duckduckgo.com/mac (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33246158)