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Bliss Browser OSMode

🌳️🌐️💻️ 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

Intro

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.

Netbook definition

I may be outspoken here, but I believe that Netbook is still the relevant term for a computer that only runs a web browser.

Similar projects

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

Challenges

Mobile variants

On 2023, Tuesday, February 7th, I began to deal with a new problem in the design of the browser: I have designed it for desktops, and I never considered making a mobile variant. I am trying to figure out how the browser will have to be changed to get it to run on mobile operating systems. It is also an interesting idea to have a netPDA/netPhone, opposed to a NetBook.

iOS/iPadOS engine problem

Due to Apple Incs rule on using third party engines in iOS/iPadOS, the iOS/iPadOS versions of the browser will be severely limited, as the project will be forced to use WebKit for these variants, opposed to other engines. Maybe a rooted variant can support other engines?

OS ports

OSMode repositories aren't just for turning the browser into a net operating system, they also contain fine-tuned tools and libraries required to port the browser to different operating systems. The tuned tools will work alongside the Bliss Browser core. The core will interpret the changes for each operating system and its port.

Questions and answers

Q: Will Bliss Browser ever support ChromeOS/ChromiumOS?

A: No, there is no point. If a user wants a netbook operating system other than ChromeOS, they can switch over. It isn't feasible to port the browser to this platform for many reasons.

List is incomplete

Variants

Note Links marked with the :octocat: Emoji are indicators that the links are to GitHub-based repositories.

Note For developers: Keep each table row limited to 4 entries.

Linux

Special Linux builds of Bliss Browser OSMode are available for:

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:octocat: Bliss Browser OSMode for Debian :octocat: Bliss Browser OSMode for Fedora :octocat: Bliss Browser OSMode for Red Hat :octocat: Bliss Browser OSMode for Ubuntu
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:octocat: Bliss Browser OSMode for Arch Linux :octocat: Bliss Browser OSMode for Gentoo Linux :octocat: Bliss Browser OSMode for Linux From Scratch (LFS) :octocat: Bliss Browser OSMode for Meadows
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:octocat: Bliss Browser OSMode for Raspberry Pi OS :octocat: Bliss Browser for NixOS :octocat: Bliss Browser for WacOS :octocat: Bliss Browser for Android
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:octocat: Bliss Browser for FireOS 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.

*Nix

Special builds for other UNIX-like operating systems with Bliss Browser OSMode are available for:

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:octocat: POSIX variant of Bliss Browser OSMode DragonFly BSD :octocat: Bliss Browser for MacOS (10.10 and up) :octocat: Bliss Browser for iOS
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:octocat: Bliss Browser for iPadOS Coming soon Coming soon Coming soon

Note Add to list: MacOS 10.10 and newer, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc.

Other

Special builds for other operating systems with Bliss Browser OSMode are available for:

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:octocat: Bliss Browser for Windows NT (Windows Vista and newer) :octocat: Bliss Browser for Windows 10 :octocat: Bliss Browser for Windows 11 Coming soon

Note Add to list: Windows XP, Windows 10, Windows 11 and newer ReactOS, etc.

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Version 1 (2023, Friday, January 27th at 4:25 pm PST)

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    • Added the Similar projects subsection
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    • Updated the *Nix subsection, adding in iOS and iPadOS
  • Added the Challenges section
    • Added the Mobile variants subsection
    • Added the iOS/iPadOS engine problem subsection
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Version 6 (2023, Wednesday, February 8th at 3:36 pm PST)

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  • Updated the file info section
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    • Updated the version date
    • Updated the line count
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Version 7 (2023, Thursday, February 9th at 1:50 pm PST)

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    • Updated the OtherOS subsection, adding in Windows 10 and Windows 11
  • Updated the file info section
    • Updated the version number
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    • Updated the line count
  • Updated the file history section
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🌳️🌐️💻️ 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

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