Wexond Browser Base

[![Actions Status](https://github.com/wexond/desktop/workflows/Build/badge.svg)](https://github.com/wexond/desktop/actions) [![Downloads](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/wexond/desktop/total.svg?style=flat-square)](https://wexond.net) [![FOSSA Status](https://app.fossa.io/api/projects/git%2Bgithub.com%2Fwexond%2Fwexond.svg?type=shield)](https://app.fossa.io/projects/git%2Bgithub.com%2Fwexond%2Fwexond?ref=badge_shield) [![PayPal](https://img.shields.io/badge/PayPal-Donate-brightgreen?style=flat-square)](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=VCPPFUAL4R6M6&source=url) [![Discord](https://discordapp.com/api/guilds/307605794680209409/widget.png?style=shield)](https://discord.gg/P7Vn4VX) Wexond Base is a modern web browser, built on top of modern web technologies such as `Electron` and `React`, that can also be used as a framework to create a custom web browser (see the [License](#license) section).

Motivation

Compiling and editing Chromium directly may be challenging and time consuming, so we decided to build Wexond with modern web technologies. Hence, the development effort and time is greatly reduced. Either way Firefox is based on Web Components and Chrome implements new dialogs in WebUI (which essentially is hosted in WebContents).

Features

Wexond Shield - Browse the web without any ads and don't let websites to track you. Thanks to the Wexond Shield powered by Cliqz, websites can load even 8 times faster!
Chromium without Google services and low resources usage - Since Wexond uses Electron under the hood which is based on only several and the most important Chromium components, it's not bloated with redundant Google tracking services and others.
Fast and fluent UI - The animations are really smooth and their timings are perfectly balanced.
Highly customizable new tab page - Customize almost an every aspect of the new tab page!
Customizable browser UI - Choose whether Wexond should have compact or normal UI.
Tab groups - Easily group tabs, so it's hard to get lost.
Scrollable tabs
Partial support for Chrome extensions - Install some extensions directly from Chrome Web Store* (see #110) (WIP)

Other basic features

Downloads popup with currently downloaded items (download manager WebUI page is WIP)
History manager
Bookmarks bar & manager
Settings
Find in page
Dark and light theme
Omnibox with autocomplete algorithm similar to Chromium
State of the art tab system

Screenshots

UI normal variant:

UI compact variant:

Downloads

Roadmap

Contributing

If you have found any bugs or just want to see some new features in Wexond, feel free to open an issue. Every suggestion is very valuable for us, as they help us improve the browsing experience. Also, please don't hesitate to open a pull request. This is really important to us and for the further development of this project.

By opening a pull request, you agree to the conditions of the Contributor License Agreement.

Development

Running

Before running Wexond, please ensure you have latest Node.js and Yarn installed on your machine.

Windows

Make sure you have build tools installed. You can install them by running this command as administrator:

$ npm i -g windows-build-tools

$ yarn # Install needed depedencies.
$ yarn rebuild # Rebuild native modules using Electron headers.
$ yarn dev # Run Wexond in development mode

More commands

$ yarn compile-win32 # Package Wexond for Windows
$ yarn compile-linux # Package Wexond for Linux
$ yarn compile-darwin # Package Wexond for macOS
$ yarn lint # Runs linter
$ yarn lint-fix # Runs linter and automatically applies fixes

More commands can be found in package.json.

Documentation

Guides and the API reference are located in docs directory.

License

Usage of this project code and assets is disallowed.

By sending a Pull Request, you agree that your code may be relicensed or sublicensed.