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> Is Beaker built entirely from scratch? > No, it’s a fork of the Chrome browser. https://beakerbrowser.com/docs/inside-beaker/faq.html#is-beaker-built-entire

• mtgx 9y ago
  Thanks. The UI seems to resemble Firefox more, though, which is strange.
  • nerdponx 9y ago
    As far as I understand, "the hard part" of a web browser is not the front end but the rendering engine. I imagine that's where most of the current code is.
  • tbv 9y ago
    Hey! I’m one of the creators of Beaker. Beaker is built with Electron, a wrapper around Chromium, and it doesn’t include any UI elements like tabs or the URL bar. We made those ourselves, and have taken inspiration from a number of browsers. What you see here is actually the “old” version of Beaker - a lot has changed in the upcoming release. Here are a few tweets with screenshots if you want to see a preview: https://twitter.com/taravancil/status/906583737789542400 https://twitter.com/taravancil/status/906583737789542400 https://twitter.com/pfrazee/status/910988429881675782 https://twitter.com/pfrazee/status/910988429881675782 https://twitter.com/taravancil/status/918232881641779201 https://twitter.com/taravancil/status/918232881641779201
    • sull 9y ago
      You are doing a great job on the aesthetics of the browser and exposing powerful network features in an elegant way.