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See /tag/web-browsers
See also Replacing web browser components
Privacy ∞
- Tor takes some version of Firefox, builds a more secure version of it, and plugs it into an anonymizing onion router network.
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Though I've tried Ad-blocking with Polipo and adzapper, I haven't tried chaining Polipo (+adzapper) + Privoxy + Tor
Browsers without their own page ∞
Dead projects ∞
Old notes noted from 2006-04-04 or earlier, just dumped here out of interest.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20190108083527/http://www.beonex.com:80/communicator/
- Forked from Netscape Navigator, with the standard set of known flaws. It's stale too. Why bother with this when I could go get something that's trying to get better?
- Abandoned - As of 2022-02-18 - 0.8.2-stable was released 2003-03-21 and the project has been officially abandoned.
- (on Wikipedia)
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https://vergenet.net/~conrad/express/
- Abandoned - As of 2022-02-18 - 0.0.7 was released 1999-05-08.
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https://grail.sourceforge.net/
- Abandoned - As of 2022-02-18 - 0.6 was released 1999-04-01.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20090905122939/http://pauillac.inria.fr:80/~rouaix/mmm/
- MMM is a WWW browser implemented in Objective Caml using its CamlTk41 interface to Tcl/Tk.
- Abandoned - As of 2022-02-18 - 0.41 was released 1997-12, and the URL is dead.
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mnemonic.org
- Abandoned - Website dead. I can't find a proper archive.
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http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hcil/pad++/
- Abandoned - As of 2022-02-18 - 0.9 was released 2001-11-08
- Dead here: https://web.archive.org/web/20070804150554/http://hci.ucsd.edu/pad++/
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- Abandoned - 3.8.22 was released 2004-02-24, and the website is dead.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20041204185951/http://www.uni-mainz.de:80/~szukw000/index.html
- No
configure
script for 3.7.2.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20080704053051/http://www.pick.ucam.org/peru/index.html
- A free web browser, written in C using the GTK libraries, and the gtk port of the xmhtml widget.
- Aborted - The project did not launch and the website died.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20041128080645/http://nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de:8080/wafe/Cineast/
- Looks neat, but quiet.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20120915154245/http://seanm.ca:80/mosaic/
- 1997-01-07 NCSA mosaic modified to compile on today's systems. Good for gophering!
Notes ∞
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- Tracks which browsers have which features.
Last updated 2023-04-05 at 18:02:59
Ported a journal entry from 2006-04-04
moved the 2006-04-04 into the [[Mozilla]] page
finished auditing/porting my offline notes
Abandoned projects herein will likely just have their link deleted. Untested items will eventually get pulled into bookmarks for later use.
Poked. I went through the dead projects to spruce up the list.