https://github.com/revalex-technologies/selenix-browser
Selenix is a web browser built from wexond base (the version used was prior to them closing the code), on top of modern web technologies such as `Electron` and `React`, that can also be used as a framework to create a custom web browser
https://github.com/revalex-technologies/selenix-browser
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Selenix is a web browser built from wexond base (the version used was prior to them closing the code), on top of modern web technologies such as `Electron` and `React`, that can also be used as a framework to create a custom web browser
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/revalex-technologies/selenix-browser
- Owner: Revalex-Technologies
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2025-08-19T02:58:46.000Z (10 months ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-09-02T02:38:51.000Z (10 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-09-02T04:23:57.361Z (10 months ago)
- Topics: chromium, electron, javascript, modernized, nodejs, react, styled-components, typescript, web-browser
- Language: TypeScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 2.23 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE
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Selenix is a web browser built from wexond base (the version used was prior to them closing the code), on top of modern web technologies such as `Electron` and `React`, that can also be used as a framework to create a custom web browser (see the [License](#license) section).
# Table of Contents:
- [Motivation](#motivation)
- [Features](#features)
- [Screenshot](#screenshot)
- [Downloads](#downloads)
- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [Development](#development)
- [Running](#running)
- [Documentation](#documentation)
- [License](#license)
## Motivation
The Wexond team discontinued and later sold their project some time ago. I have always admired their work, and this repository is an effort to build upon it while staying within legal and licensing requirements. Specifically, this project is based on a commit tagged **v5.2.0** in the original repository, which included the GPL license file. That version can be found [here](https://github.com/wexond/browser-base/tree/v5.2.0).
As developers, many of us have attempted to compile Chromium from source, only to find the process extremely time-consuming and resource-intensive. **Selenix** aims to address that challenge by leveraging the foundation provided by Wexond’s project, now updated to support modern Node.js and Electron versions.
# Features
- **selenix Shield** - Browse the web without any ads and don't allow websites to track you. Thanks to the selenix Shield powered by [ghostery](https://github.com/ghostery/adblocker), websites can load even 8 times faster!
- **Chromium without Google services and low resources usage** - Since selenix uses Electron and wexond under the hood which is based on only several and the most important Chromium components, it's not bloated with redundant Google tracking services and others.
- **Fast and fluent UI** - The animations are really smooth and their timings are perfectly balanced.
- **Highly customizable new tab page** - Customize almost an every aspect of the new tab page!
- **Customizable browser UI** - Choose whether Selenix should have compact or normal UI.
- **Tab groups** - Easily group tabs, so it's hard to get lost.
- **Scrollable tabs**
- **chrome extensions support** - install your favorite extensions from any chromium browser into Selenix Browser instructions on setting this up can be found in [`docs/extensions`](docs/extensions.md)
## Other basic features
- Downloads popup with currently downloaded items and a download manager WebUI page
- History manager
- Bookmarks bar & manager
- Settings
- Find in page
- Dark and light theme
- Omnibox with autocomplete algorithm similar to Chromium
- State of the art tab system along with tab tearing.
# Preview
# Downloads
- [Stable](https://github.com/Revalex-Technologies/Selenix-Browser/releases)
# Development
## Running
Make sure you have the latest version of node.js which you can find * [`here`](https://nodejs.org/en/)
to switch between node versions you will need nvm (node version mamager) which you can find [`here`](https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm/releases).
### Type These commands for installing deps, building, running, or compiling.
Make sure you have corepack enabled. You can do so by running these commands
```bash
$ sudo corepack enable # enables corepack for node.js + linux
```
for windows run the command below as **administrator**:
```bash
$ corepack enable # enables corepack for node.js
```
```bash
$ yarn install # Install needed depedencies.
$ yarn run build # build native modules using Electron headers.
$ yarn run rebuild # Rebuild native modules using Electron headers.
$ yarn run dev # Run Selenix in development mode
$ yarn run start # Run Selenix in production mode
```
### More commands
```bash
$ yarn run compile-win32 # Package Selenix for Windows
$ yarn run compile-linux # Package Selenix for Linux
$ yarn run compile-darwin # Package Selenix for macOS
$ yarn run lint # Runs linter
$ yarn run lint-fix # Runs linter and automatically applies fixes
```
More commands can be found in [`package.json`](package.json).
# Documentation
Guides and the API reference are located in [`docs`](docs) directory.
# Contributing
if you wish to contribute in any way, shape or form please give the [`Contributing License Agreement a Read`](CONTRIBUTING.md)
# License
This project is licensed under [GPL-3](LICENSE) and an additional license under [PATENTS](PATENTS) file.