Feather Browser

A lightweight Chromium-based browser built in Rust. Focused on low RAM usage through aggressive tab hibernation.

Why Feather?

Chrome uses ~900MB with 10 tabs. Feather targets ~200MB through tab hibernation and aggressive memory management.

Status

Active development — Day 8/21 of initial build sprint.

Stack

• Rust
• wry (WebView2 on Windows / WebKitGTK on Linux)
• winit (native windowing)
• WebView2 (Chromium engine, ships with Windows)

Building from source

1. Clone the repo
2. Download CEF prebuilt binaries from: https://cef-builds.spotifycdn.com/index.html Extract into cef/windows/
3. Run: cargo build cargo run

Roadmap

• Native window
• Webpage rendering
• Address bar + navigation
• Back/forward history
• Tab data model + state machine
• Tab hibernation
• Tab bar UI
• Memory governor
• Settings
• Windows installer (.msi)
• Linux support