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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

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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

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Variants

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

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Linux

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.

*Nix

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.

Other

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 newer ReactOS, etc.

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

• This release was made by: @seanpm2001

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• Added the title section
• • Added the browser logo
• • Added a centered description
• Added the Intro section
• • Added the NetBook definition subsection
• • Added the Similar projects subsection
• • Added the Variants section
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• • Updated the Variants section
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Version 3 (2023, Monday, February 6th at 4:27 pm PST)

• This release was made by: @seanpm2001

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• • Updated the *Nix subsection, adding in MacOS
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