Internet Exploder

A minimal, fast, private-by-default web browser built from scratch in Rust.

Goals

• Performance — GPU-accelerated rendering, arena-allocated DOM, zero-copy where possible
• Low memory — no background prefetch, no speculative loading, lean process model
• Secure — multi-process sandboxing, pure Rust stack (no C/C++ dependencies for core functionality)
• Private by default — no telemetry, no completion, no prefetch, no tracking accommodations
• Portable — Linux, macOS, Windows from day one via wgpu and winit
• Latest standards only — no legacy quirks modes, no deprecated elements, no vendor prefixes

Non-goals

• Developer tools
• Extension ecosystem
• Legacy website compatibility
• Address bar suggestions/completion
• Spell checking

Building

Requires mise for task running.

mise install        # Install toolchain
mise run build      # Build
mise run test       # Test
mise run run        # Launch

Architecture

ie-shell        Browser chrome, window management, event loop
ie-net          HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 networking (hyper + rustls)
ie-html         WHATWG HTML parser
ie-css          CSS parser and style engine
ie-dom          Arena-allocated DOM tree
ie-js           JavaScript engine (Boa)
ie-layout       Layout engine (block, inline, flex, grid)
ie-render       GPU rendering (wgpu)
ie-sandbox      Multi-process sandboxing and IPC

License

GPL-3.0-or-later