🌳️🌐️💻️ The OS mode for Bliss Browser lets you turn your computer into a netbook for as much time as you choose. A privacy-focused alternative to ChromeOS/ChromiumOS
OS Mode for Bliss Browser is a framework for the browser that turns the interface into a graphical shell similar to FirefoxOS, ChromeOS, and other netbook operating systems. The OSMode shell is not an operating system, it runs on top of one. It is designed to make a computer into a Netbook, until the user decides to disable it (via Bliss Browser settings) and have it just be a browser application within their operating system once more.
I may be outspoken here, but I believe that Netbook is still the relevant term for a computer that only runs a web browser.
Note This list is in A-Z order. Also, these projects are listed because they have similar aspects to Bliss Browser OSMode, but are mostly completely different in design.
- ChromeOS/ChromiumOS - A netbook operating system that is mainly a web browser operating system, although with a very bad privacy record
- FirefoxOS - A discontinued privacy friendly netbook operating system that was replaced by Google ChromeOS/Google ChromiumOS
- Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, and 3.1x (Windows 1.0 - Windows 3.11) - a graphical shell that ran on top of MS-DOS
- Windows 9x (Windows 95, 98, ME) - a graphical shell that ran on top of MS-DOS
Note Links marked with the Emoji are indicators that the links are to GitHub-based repositories.
Note For developers: Keep each table row limited to 4 entries.
Special Linux builds of Bliss Browser OSMode are available for:
Bliss Browser OSMode for Debian | Bliss Browser OSMode for Fedora | Bliss Browser OSMode for Red Hat | Bliss Browser OSMode for Ubuntu |
Bliss Browser OSMode for Arch Linux | Bliss Browser OSMode for Gentoo Linux | Bliss Browser OSMode for Linux From Scratch (LFS) | Bliss Browser OSMode for Meadows |
Bliss Browser OSMode for Raspberry Pi OS | Coming soon | Coming soon | Coming soon |
Note Add to list: Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu,
Gentoo, Manjaro,Arch,Alpine, Puppy,Raspberry Pi OS, RaspbianOS, OpenSUSE, ElementaryOS, etc.
Special builds for other UNIX-like operating systems with Bliss Browser OSMode are available for:
POSIX variant of Bliss Browser OSMode | DragonFly BSD | Bliss Browser for MacOS (10.10 and up) | Coming soon |
Note Add to list:
MacOS 10.10 and newer, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc.
Special builds for other operating systems with Bliss Browser OSMode are available for:
Bliss Browser for Windows XP, Windows 10, Windows 11 (Windows NT) | Coming soon | Coming soon | Coming soon |
Note Add to list:
Windows XP, Windows 10, Windows 11 and newerReactOS, etc.
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