Basilisk is a lightweight, fast, and modern web browser. It aims to be a clean, simple, and useful browser for daily browsing. It is built with the latest web standards and technologies, allowing you to browse the web without losing the layout and experience. Basilisk Browser supports a wide array of features required for the Modern Web, including advanced scripting, WebRTC, CSS v3, HTML5, and downloadable font support. It also fully supports all NPAPI plugins (e.g. Java, Unity web player, Media plugins, Authentication plugins). If you are still not convinced enough, you can try Mozilla Firefox.
Features & Highlights
- Full support for JavaScript's ECMAscript 6 standard for modern web browsing.
- Support for XUL/Overlay Mozilla-style extensions.
- Experimental support for WebExtensions (in gecko-target mode).
- Support for ALSA on Linux.
- Support for WebAssembly (WASM).
- Support for advanced Graphite font shaping features.
- Support for modern web cryptography: up to TLS 1.3, modern ciphers, HSTS, etc.
License
Free
Developer
Moonchild Productions
Requirements
Windows 7/ 8/ 10
Version
2022.09.28
Size
40.0 MB
Updated
September 28, 2022
September 28th, 2022
This is a major development, bugfix, and security release.
- Note: The default search engines have changed. Please verify that your configuration still uses your preferred search engine.
- Implemented .at(index) JavaScript method on built-in indexables (Array, String, TypedArray)
- Implemented the use of EventSource in workers
- Enabled the sending of the Origin: header by default on same-origin requests
- Changed how Basilisk is built. We have made build system changes to reduce build times and pressure on the linker on all platforms.
- Note that Basilisk is not yet built with Visual Studio 2022. This change will be done in the next release
- Changed how Basilisk handles standalone wave audio files (.wav). See implementation notes
- Improved string normalization
- Updated the handling of CSS "supports" to now accept unparenthesized strings (spec update)
- Updated the handling of flex containers in web pages for web compatibility
- Fixed various issues when building for Mac OS X
- Fixed various C++ standard conformance issues in the source code
- Fixed several issues building on SunOS and Linux with various configurations and gcc versions
- Fixed an issue with regular expressions' dotAll syntax and usage. See implementation notes
- Switched custom hash map to std::unordered_map where prudent
- Cleaned up and updated IPC thread locking code
- Removed spacing for accessibility focus rings in form controls to align styling them with expected metrics
- Removed the unnecessary control module for building with non-standard configurations of the platform
- Removed the -moz prefix from min-content and max-content CSS keywords where it was still in use
- Updated the search engines included with Basilisk. Basilisk now includes the same search engines as Pale Moon
- Fix the issue where PDF.js was completely broken in the previous release
- Fixed an important stability and performance issue related to hardware acceleration
- Implemented Global Privacy Control in the Basilisk settings
- Fix issue where the 32-bit Windows installer would not execute on 32-bit Windows systems
- Remove Mozilla-related default bookmarks. Update default bookmarks
- Update compact mode override for Firefox to 102.0
- Update user agent overrides to improve compatibility with Facebook
- Security fixes: CVE-2022-40956 and CVE-2022-40958
- UXP Mozilla security patch summary: 2 fixed, 11 not applicable
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