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Hello all!

I've been tossing around the idea of making a browser. Now, I really don't have much of a clue as to what I'm doing. Can someone explain to me all the issues and tasks, etc of building a browser. (I was planning to use Gecko, just FYI)

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I think my post got removed for saying it's a stupid idea. Is this a business endeavor? If it is you're fucked.

Nah, just wanted to have some fun with coding and such. (Make it open source for others to edit if if they please)

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Maybe this will help (basically I just used Google, you'll probably want to do that a lot with this project)

 

How to get started building a web browser?

Let's build a browser engine!

 

Thank you!

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I assume I'll be able to get the Gecko engine from Github or somewhere else.

 

quick warning, compiling a FireFox-based browser (from source) on my 4GHz 6-core box took almost 20 minutes.

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quick warning, compiling a FireFox-based browser (from source) on my 4GHz 6-core box took almost 20 minutes.

That is not supersizing. Could you tell me what you did? I'd love to know! (No, I won't steal your ideas or anything)

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There is a difference between a browser and its engine. The browser itself utilises an engine to render pages, and the browser does everything else. You are essentially just building the padding around the rendering engine. I recommend that you just use something like webkit and build around it from there. Plenty of languages have pre-built webkit libs.

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Nah, just wanted to have some fun with coding and such. (Make it open source for others to edit if if they please)

EDIT 2: I'm making a web browser and have been doing so for a while. Should I go open source or not?

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There is a difference between a browser and its engine. The browser itself utilises an engine to render pages, and the browser does everything else. You are essentially just building the padding around the rendering engine. I recommend that you just use something like webkit and build around it from there. Plenty of languages have pre-built webkit libs.

Yeah, I was thinking about that as well. (One issue I immediately ran into was the file type webkit downloads in, but I assume that I can download a program thats able to open it anyway) Then the question goes, where do I go into WebKit to edit everything? (meaning, looks wise, as I was planning on doing)

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EDIT 2: I'm making a web browser and have been doing so for a while. Should I go open source or not?

If you do not have a team that's really good at helping you code this browser on a consistent basis, then yes, you should go open source.

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If you do not have a team that's really good at helping you code this browser on a consistent basis, then yes, you should go open source.

Alright. So I put this on Github?

 

First I'll have to clean up the code a bit and add a whole ton of comments.

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Alright. So I put this on Github?

First I'll have to clean up the code a bit and add a whole ton of comments.

That would be nice to see! I'd love to know when you put it up!

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