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Chrome and Firefox are absolutely gargantuan in terms of their functionality and also the decades of fine tuning.

Building a new browser seems akin to building a Saturn V rocket.

To be practical at all you’d have to lop gigantic trunks of functionality off it.




I'm not sure I agree with this metaphor but it's too tempting not to propose:

Labybird/LibWeb is to Chrome/Blink as Saturn V is to SpaceX Starship...

Not sure where that puts Andreas, hence my hesitation.


Maybe you mean the SLS (or Rocket Lab) instead of Saturn V


If by web browser you mean web engine + chrome, than it is a big task, but notas big as Saturn V. Have a look at Netsurf, Ekioh Flow. Their teams are small, yet still capable.


An observation shared by many.




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