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CobaltBSD
neosurf
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CobaltBSD / neosurf

neosurf

A NetSurf fork with various improvements

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
127GitHub stars
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What it is

A NetSurf fork with various improvements

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-05-11 03:31:56 UTC to 2024-01-07 03:06:54 UTC.

012023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsMay 20232023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 20232023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
May 20232023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Jun 20232023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20232023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20232023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20232023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20232023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20232023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20232023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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garysneed·May 11, 2023Submission

Show HN: NeoSurf – A tiny (~460k LoC) graphical browser based on NetSurf

Hello everyone, I recently published the first public release of NeoSurf, a small browsing suite based on NetSurf instead of Mozilla or Chromium. NeoSurf contains a large number of improvements over the now largely antiquated NetSurf browser, such as increased usage of system libraries and focusing support on desktop Linux rather than obscure platforms. NeoSurf is by far the smallest standalone graphical web browser available that is capable of loading most sites, at less than 1% the size (as measured by lines of code/text) of Firefox's codebase. NeoSurf has limited JavaScript support. All websites that do not use JS should work exactly as expected, whereas sites that heavily utilize it tend to load in unexpected ways. NeoSurf also supports a large number of additional improvements, such as: * A focus on privacy which was absent in NetSur
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f (DNT, DuckDuckGo instead of Google by default, etc) * Dedicated LibreSSL support * Separated common functions from the frontends with a shared libneosurf * Modernized the build system with CMake; Now builds faster and with fewer build-time dependencies * Officially supported Visurf (Wayland only) and Gtk3 frontends (X11 and Wayland) Binaries are not yet, but compilation should be fairly straight-forward, and the process for doing so is described in the README. At the moment, it is expected to work on any desktop Linux platform, but I have not had a chance yet to test it more thoroughly. Let me know if you encounter any problems. Other contributions are also appreciated. (PS: I submitted this post to HN from NeoSurf :)
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