Create your own custom browser

Question

Hi,

I want to shape my own browser or at least modify a existing one so far that it meets my needs.

I want a fast browser (starting and running, not necessarily faster rendering) without any stuff I don't use and simple productive navigation (like Firefox + Vimperator + Tree Style Tab), only much more integrated into each other and a different GUI.

I was thinking about just looking into the current two top browsers chrome and firefox (open-source wise) and branch my own smaller version out of it.

By just using WebKit or Gecko I will have to implement all the Connection-stuff, too, but I really am not interested in doing that.

So my questions are:

1. Does it make sense to start off with a current browser and strip off certain features and the frontend and replace it with my own code?

2. Chrome or Firefox? Which one is less complex? I don't care much about Plugins and Extensions, so they aren't they pretty much even in features otherwise?

Thanks for your answers

p.s.: It's a just-for-fun at-home project, so please no "just use the browsers..."-stuff...

Answer 1

The best point would be looking at the webkit project http://webkit.org/

This is basicaly the sceletom for a browser or a framework to create a new browser. Safari and konquerror was build using the webkit framework