Fifo is a nonprofit, fast free and secure Web Browser. It’s based on Wexond, and includes news and tons of features out of the box. Fifo is resource effecient, and is updated often. Powered by SnailDOS!
Fifo is a modern web browser designed for secure, fast, and efficient browsing across multiple platforms. Built using Electron and React, Fifo prioritizes user privacy and performance while offering a feature-rich experience.
Key Features:
Ad-free Browsing: Powered by Cliqz's AntiAd service, Fifo blocks ads and trackers, enabling faster page loads and enhancing privacy.
Resource Efficiency: Based on Chromium without unnecessary Google services, Fifo runs smoothly even on low-end devices.
Customizable UI: Tailor the browser's appearance with options for compact or standard layouts and a highly customizable new tab page.
Tab Management: Organize tabs into groups, scroll through them, and manage your browsing sessions with ease.
Incognito Mode & Security: Enjoy enhanced privacy with Fifo's Incognito mode and robust security features to protect your data.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for general users, office workers, gamers, and researchers seeking a secure, fast, and customizable browser experience. Fifo helps you browse efficiently while maintaining your privacy and productivity.
Available via winget for easy installation, Fifo is committed to delivering frequent updates with new features and improvements.
README
Fifo Browser
Fifo is a modern web browser, built on top of modern web technologies such as Electron and React that is mean't to be secure. This browser is meant for office work, gaming, research and is a secure private browser. Fifo aims to be cross platform.
FIFO (Fly In Fly Out for your data.)
Building a custom browser would be way to hard, therefor, we forked Wexond as our base, we are theng going to extend from there.
Fifo has branched off Wexond and we are on our way of desiging our own graphics and icons.
Features
AntiAd - Browse the web without any ads and don't let websites to track you. Thanks to the 'AntiAd' (Fifo Service) powered by Cliqz, websites can load even 8 times faster!
Chromium without Google services and low resources usage - Since Fifo uses Electron 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 Fifo should have compact or normal UI.
Tab groups - Easily group tabs, so it's hard to get lost.
Scrollable tabs - Scroll between your tabs.
Support Chrome extensions - From version < 1.2.0 80% of chrome extenions are compatible and work with Fifo.
Other basic features
Downloads popup with currently downloaded items
History manager
Simple menu
Perfect Incognito Mode!
Bookmarks bar & manager
Settings
Find in page
Dark and light theme
Omnibox with autocomplete algorithm similar to Chromium
If you have found any bugs or just want to see some new features in Fifo, feel free to open an issue. Every suggestion is very valuable for us, as they help us improve the browsing experience. Also, please don't hesitate to open a pull request. This is really important to us and for the further development of this project.
Before running Fifo, please ensure you have latestNode.js and [YARN] installed on your machine.
NPM is not not supported with the Fifo Project. You need to use the latest v2/v3 release of Yarn.
Windows
Make sure you have build tools installed. You can install them by running this command as administrator:
$ npm i -g windows-build-tools
Yarn:
You need to ensure you have the latest version of YARN. (Yarn Berry)
$ yarn install # Install node modules
$ yarn build # Compile Fifo code and rebuild modules.
$ yarn dev # Run Fifo in development mode
NPM: No longer supported
More commands
$ yarn compile-win32 # Package Fifo for Windows
$ yarn compile-linux # Package Fifo for Linux
$ yarn compile-darwin # Package Fifo for macOS
$ yarn lint # Runs linter
$ yarn lint-fix # Runs linter and automatically applies fixes
$ yarn copyright # Generates auto headers for copyright.
Before running Fifo, please ensure you have latestNode.js and [YARN] installed on your machine. You can use NPM but it IS NOT recommended.
Windows
Make sure you have build tools installed. You can install them by running this command as administrator:
$ npm i -g windows-build-tools
Yarn:
$ yarn install # Install node modules
$ yarn build # Compile Fifo code and rebuild modules.
$ yarn start # Run Fifo in development mode
NPM: Not recommended
$ npm install --save --legacy-peer-deps # Install needed depedencies. If you can, please, use yarn install.
$ npm run build # Compile Fifo code and rebuild modules.
$ npm run start # Run Fifo in development mode
Documentation
Guides and the API reference are located in docs directory.
License
This browser isn't mean to be rebranded/redistrubted, please follow the LICENSE.MD.
Never remove credits in headers.
(sentialx@gmail.com) wrote original base code. (Wexond).
By sending a Pull Request, you agree that your code may be relicensed or sublicensed.
