Nordstjernen Web Browser - small, steady, independent. Written in C.

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An independent web browser written in C. Around 40,000 lines ,<br>small enough for one person to read in a long afternoon. No Blink,<br>no Gecko, no WebKit, no JIT. No telemetry, ever.

Nordstjernen 0.6.0 on Linux / GTK 4.

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18 MAY 2026 &middot;<br>Nordstjernen 0.6.0 released.<br>Release notes "

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languageC<br>html / csslexbor<br>javascriptquickjs-ng (interpreter, no jit)<br>imagesWuffs<br>uiGTK 4<br>networklibcurl<br>platformslinux &middot; windows &middot; macos<br>licenseNSL-1.0 &rarr; MIT after 10 years

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Nordstjernen 0.6.0 — released 18 May 2026.<br>full release notes "

Windows<br>nordstjernen-0.6.0-win64-setup.exe

Linux<br>nordstjernen-0.6.0-x86_64.AppImage

macOS<br>nordstjernen-macos-arm64.dmg

Source (tar.gz)<br>nordstjernen-0.6.0.tar.gz

Source (zip)<br>nordstjernen-0.6.0.zip

Source RPM<br>nordstjernen-0.6.0-1.src.rpm

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