Straver (Free)


Basilisk is more of an ongoing project than an established product. That said, it does work pretty well, and has some less popular but interesting features. It uses the same engine and code lines as the older versions of Firefox. Speed-wise, though, it’s still nowhere near Firefox.

Stylish interface

The browser has a simple but modern design. You can also customize the color schemes with the Theme feature. Because this is an open-source program, it’s possible to further adjust any aspect, including the interface.

Basilisk carries heavier requirements than Firefox and supports fewer versions of Windows. If you have 2GB or less RAM on your engine, it won’t run very smooth. Even at 3GB, it can be taxing on your device, depending on your activities. If you use Windows 10, this shouldn’t be a problem because all devices with this OS come with at least 4GB of RAM.

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Chock full of features

Instead of having to look for extensions, you can find them on the Basilisk homepage. They offer a lot of unique and quirky add-ons. Some of these would have been Firefox properties, but never made it to the market.

Constantly updated

This app is a community project, so anyone can add their expertise to its improvement. You can submit codes via Github and create various extensions. Straver also releases updates through frequent patches to better the user experience of people using this program.

Basilisk is a free and Open Source XUL-based web browser, featuring the well-known Firefox-style interface and operation. It is based on the Goanna layout and rendering engine (a fork of Gecko) and builds on the Unified XUL Platform (UXP), which in turn is a fork of the Mozilla code base without Servo or Rust.

Basilisk is primarily a reference application for development of the XUL platform it builds upon, and additionally a potential replacement for Firefox.

Basilisk is development software. This means that it should be considered more or less "beta" at all times; it may have some bugs and is provided as-is, with potential defects. Like any other Free Software community project, it comes without any warranty or promise of fitness for any particular purpose. That being said: of course we will do our best to provide an as stable and secure browser as possible with every official release of Basilisk.

It should be noted that because of this focus on platform development, the browser itself (the application code) will be released and maintained mostly as-it-is, with very little change or development on the user interface or browser front-end features. As the platform develops, some Firefox-specific features may be dropped; please do not expect this application to remain the same, forever.

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