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Hello from an open-source browser developer
WhiteDragon303
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Hi everyone,
I'm WhiteDragon-303, an independent open-source developer working on the Daybreak Browser Project — a suite of free web browsing tools.
What I'm building:
• Daybreak Electron Browser — a desktop browser using Electron + BrowserView (native Chromium rendering, no iframe limitations)
• Silver Dragon Proxy — a web proxy on Cloudflare Workers (still in development, currently unstable — actively debugging issues)
• White Dragon Proxy — a lightweight companion proxy that's working well for fast content delivery
• Daybreak Cloudflare Browser — a full web-based browser with proxy integration
Everything is on GitHub: https://github.com/WhiteDragon-303
Live deployments:
• Silver Dragon Proxy: https://silver-dragon-proxy.white-dragon.workers.dev/
• White Dragon Proxy: https://white-dragon-proxy.pages.dev
• Daybreak Cloudflare Browser: https://daybreak-browser.pages.dev
I've been working with Cloudflare Workers so far, but I'm here to learn about VPS hosting. My proxies have IP reputation issues on Cloudflare (Google blocks their IP ranges), so I need to understand how to properly set up and manage a Linux VPS to move my projects forward.
I've never managed a real VPS before, so I'll have questions about security hardening, reverse proxies, and handling NAT with IPv6. Looking forward to learning from the community.
Thanks for having me.
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Pheeew, for a second i thought you might actually be crazy enough to attempt some kind of ground up browser project in 2026. Electron is a bit poopoo as far as i'm concerned though (sorry lol).
Well, hello! Take your seat then. I hope you brought your popcorn bucket! It's a little chaotic at times but i think overall you've come to the right place
Another chromium based browser... Wish you luck
Proxies look interesting but a blank page with "put URL and go" is a no-go for me. What's the idea behind this system? How does it work, why would we use it? Some documentation to tame curious eyes is always welcome
Good luck on your endeavours
Welcome. Would be curious to try it. Especially white proxy
Hi.
Welcome to LET.
Just to let you know, we don't enjoy heavy use of AI for posts.
Good luck with your project!
That is correct. Some users still haven't fined tuned their mental filter but i wouldn't count on it staying this way for long. Well, at least i hope so. I'm starting to feel kind of dumb for regularly noticing the obvious...
Don’t worry you’re not dumb
Old, however…
Yeah, that's sadly true. The 3x part isn't much of big deal. It's pretty much like the 2x part with most changes being optional but the 4x part is where time starts taking it's toll. It's pretty crazy when i think about it.
Still hardly an excuse for constantly missing those stupid fucking long dashes... Well, maybe i'm starting to become senile. That could be an option.
This one literally just makes an iframe with the site you want to go to? Wtf...
Have you considered switching to long dashes yourself to blend in better? Nobody will know whether you're another Väinämöinen or just an old guy trolling.
only after @emgh does inspection i can proceed.
Nah, as much as i hate getting old i don't really feel a need to blend in. That's kind of an advantage you get with never really having blended in. The reasons might expand a little but overall its still pretty much the same
totally_not_blending_in
You are not making a browser, at least not yet. You've made browser chrome, which is the technical term for a nice visual wrapper over someone else's engine (that's why it was originally called Chrome back in the day, you know). I personally consider something a new browser when it starts doing unique things with/to the engine not present in the stock version (Pale Moon became an independent browser when they forked pre-Rust Firefox, WebKit became a separate browser after Apple forked KHTML, etc).
90% of the work is removing your SSH port (connect via a WireGuard tunnel instead, it's easy and makes port scanning for the SSH port pointless), using pubkey SSH auth, disabling kernel module autoloading & blacklisting modules you don't use, updating frequently, and not running your web server/webapps with dangerous permissions (use systemd service files or
bubblewrapto restrict them to minimal perms). The remaining 10% is exponentially harder but a lot more work.Don't NAT IPv6. If your plan requires NAT for IPv6, your plan is wrong.
@WhiteDragon303 — what to achieve something great? Please create:
These two are like issue and solution, completing one another in Yin/Yang, making these a must have for the future. Think about all the people on social media who just reply with emojis and GIFs. Both such extensions in tandem should make everybody look smart and wise in their replies — a necessary aspect in feeling important while socialising with others online.
It fails to rewrite CSS paths, causing the webpage to render without styling.
Same result as Silver Dragon.
It fails to connect to our website, despite we have the lowest Cloudflare protection and do not block any scrapers.
This isn't a browser, but a shell of an existing browser.
The rendering engine is what makes a browser a browser.
Mentally strong people set homepage to
about:blankand manually type the URI.Well, i like NATing IPv6. As far as i'm concerned that's how it is supposed to be. God bless the good souls that decided not including NAT6 would be a mistake
Two consenting sysadmins are free to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own LAN but I don't want to see that kind of perversion on the public internet, it could be a bad influence on the impressionable youth. New sysadmins these days take one misinformed look at IPv4 NAT and wrongly conclude stuff like "ooh, NAT is a network security primitive" and "who even uses port forwarding/non-web P2P anyways, I don't care that NAT often breaks it"!
My Monster Manual has Black, Blue, Green, Red, White, Brass, Bronze, Copper, Gold, and Silver dragons.
Silver Dragons are Lawful Good but white dragons are Chaotic Evil.
This concerns me.
Yeah, that's obviously a very naive perspective. Everyone knows that it's security & privacy in one 100% foolproof package.
Totally true, I just use the local about:blank that appears after Ctrl+T, not the "here use this free AI proxy" page.
Although I'm guilty of also using bookmarks, brain not big enough for all URLs.
While you are here @yoursunny, what do you think of the NAT IPv6 of the last comments?