Konform Browser v140.7.0-108
Details
- External ID
- 46956420
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Konform Browser v140.7.0-108
- Website domain
- codeberg.org
- Launched
- Feb. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4393530997304582
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Konform Browser is a Firefox ESR fork focused on security, privacy, and user freedom. This might sound familiar but I think we still have something worthwhile to bring to the browser ecosystem.The project started as a fork of LibreWolf and now stands on its own four feet. It takes a harder stance on the three goals of security, privacy and freedom. It's intended to be suitable as a general-purpose daily driver for everything from managing the intranet to surfing the murkier tubes.This week we added a simple "onboarding" page replacing the about:welcome of Firefox with a page where the user can choose between four different preset configs depending on their scenario and preferences.If you don't enjoy compiling browser from source, there are prepackaged binaries and probably repos for your Linux dist.Doors open for users, testers, contributors, as well as hackers itching to (constructively and helpfully pretty please) tear this apart. Looking forward to hear what HN thinks!
Enrichment
- Theme
- web development and browser utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- browser
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Forking, maintaining, and hardening a modern web browser engine against upstream Firefox ESR releases requires an immense amount of C/C++ systems engineering, compilation infrastructure, and security expertise.
What it would actually take: Requires managing the massive Mozilla Firefox ESR source tree (millions of lines of C++, Rust, and JS), setting up robust CI/CD pipelines capable of multi-hour cross-platform builds, and deep domain knowledge of web security, sandboxing, and browser rendering internals to patch security/privacy features without breaking modern web compatibility.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 34 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #18 of 35 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 80 days after the earliest competitor.
- I made a browser TUI with its own layout engine · hn · 2026-07-07 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- I built a cross-browser extension that controls fingerprinting surfaces · hn · 2026-07-31 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Hacker News Christmas colors browser extension · hn · 2025-12-14 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- PATANYX Browser · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Bor · hn · 2026-08-02 · 197 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- FF-Gnome-Web · github · 2026-09-21 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- aero-browser · github · 2026-09-14 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- CyberGhost-VPN · github · 2026-09-21 · 78 upvotes · similarity 0.34
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