Northstar: New Minimalist C-Based Browser

Northstar: A Minimalist C-Based Browser with High Security

Northstar is a minimalist web browser written from scratch in C, without using popular engines like Gecko, WebKit, or Blink. It supports modern HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript standards, ensuring compatibility with current web technologies.

Security on Linux is ensured by the Landlock filesystem sandbox, seccomp system call filtering, and the absence of JIT compilation.

Cross-platform support allows it to run on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

The source code is available under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.

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