Pulse Browser Pulse Browser
winget install --id=PulseBroswer.PulseBrowser -e Pulse browser is an experimental Firefox fork that enhances focus and increases work productivity due to its Hyper minimalistic UI and built-in tools.
Pulse Browser Description
Pulse Browser is an experimental Firefox fork designed to enhance focus and increase work productivity through its hyper-minimalistic user interface and built-in tools.
It offers a distraction-free environment with key features such as a sidebar for quick access to essential tools, an integrated ad blocker using uBlock Origin, a QR code generator, regular security updates due to its Firefox foundation, and the absence of telemetry.
Ideal for professionals seeking a distraction-free work environment, Pulse Browser helps users maintain focus and improve productivity by minimizing distractions and providing necessary tools within easy reach.
Installation is straightforward via winget.
README
A note on maintenance
This project will never make it past alpha, nor will it receive any bug fixes or new features that do not directly affect me (@trickypr). I am putting my energy towards a project using a different approach. For a rough guide to my reasoning, see this Mastodon post.
Pulse Browser
An experimental Firefox fork that enhances focus and increases work productivity due to its Hyper minimalistic UI and built-in tools.
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🌑 Features
| Features of Pulse Browser | |
|---|---|
| 🛡️ | Removed Telemetry |
| 🗡️ | Built in Ad-Block (uBlock Origin) |
| 💃 | Built in light-weight QR Code Generator |
| 🦊 | Firefox source based browser with regular security updates |
| 🍫 | A sidebar to put tools you love within the reach of a click |
| 📖 | Hyper minimalistic UI to increase pure focus |
| ⬆️ | Adequately maintained repository and software |
👨💻 Install
We (Pulse-Browser developers) support building open source software personally for security and comfort reasons. Although this is an option, we also have prebuilt installers available on our Releases page.
🐛 Bugs, Support and Chat
For bug reports, support, and just having a friendly chat with the team, feel free to join the discord at https://discord.gg/xNkretH7sD or create an issue on the GitHub repository.
📋 Goals
- Minimalist ui that feels more native than firefox's (custom skin, not a rewrite)
- Replace some internal firefox components with better open source alternatives (e.g. uBlock origin)
- Remove mozilla's telemetry, ads and pocket
🏗️ Credits
- Dot HQ's melon build tool, which was extracted from Dot Browser. They have been driving development of firefox forks and have made incredible progress. - MPL-2.0 License
- We maintain our own fork, Gluon which is used by this project
- The BetterFox user.js tweaks, which are used throughout the browser. - MIT License
- uBlock extension from GitHub for blocking ads. - GNU General Public License v3.0
- Firefox-QR-Code-Generator extension from GitHub for a QR Code generator. - MPL-2.0 License
- Tabliss extension to provide a better new-tab experience. - GNU General Public License v3.0
- Firefox and the rest of the mozilla team. - MPL Version 2.0