Nordstjernen Web Browser(nordstjernen.org)
nordstjernen.org
Nordstjernen Web Browser
https://www.nordstjernen.org/
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I'm...suspicious. 10 months ago this account was whinging about the evils of AI and this is heavily AI driven code. README claims to be a Norwegian developed browser but account is in Qatar. Andreas Røsdal has two github accounts, both andreasrosdal and andreasrosdalw, one of which has forked a project from the other or I would just think "oh two people with the same name".
I am making this web browser, ask me anything. I have two GitHub accounts, one for private and another for work. I am using Claude to make this web browser. I live in Norway now, I used to live in Qatar before.
> Copyright © 1997 the Nordstjernen project
Did this project exist in some form since 1997? The Wayback Machine shows that the website was previously completely different - a fan site for someone connected to the Norwegian royal family.
Did this project exist in some form since 1997? The Wayback Machine shows that the website was previously completely different - a fan site for someone connected to the Norwegian royal family.
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> An independent web browser written in C.
Cool! We need more indie browsers.
> No Blink, no Gecko, no WebKit, no JIT. No telemetry, ever.
Excellent. This person speaks my language.
> UI: GTK 4
WTF?! Why?! Why do people keep defaulting to that bloated turd of a toolkit, even in the era of LLMs? The dev is clearly using Claude, they could've very easily vibe coded to use a better toolkit. I can't fathom what made them choose GTK out of all things, especially considering they're going for the minimalism thing.
Cool! We need more indie browsers.
> No Blink, no Gecko, no WebKit, no JIT. No telemetry, ever.
Excellent. This person speaks my language.
> UI: GTK 4
WTF?! Why?! Why do people keep defaulting to that bloated turd of a toolkit, even in the era of LLMs? The dev is clearly using Claude, they could've very easily vibe coded to use a better toolkit. I can't fathom what made them choose GTK out of all things, especially considering they're going for the minimalism thing.
GTK 4 completely overhauled its rendering pipeline. It finally ditched the old CPU-bound Cairo rendering in favor of a modern scene graph (GSK) that natively leverages OpenGL and Vulkan.
This browser is C, while Qt needs C++ normally. Maybe I will make my own toolkit, like the Chrome Aura.