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The Open Web
On indie browsers, big-tech control of the web, and the history worth remembering as the browser landscape consolidates.
- Indie web · May 28, 2026 · 17 min readHonest UA vs Spoofed UA: A Field Report on What Actually BreaksA concrete list of what breaks when an indie browser lies about being Chromium — Client Hints, bot defenses, passkeys, DRM, Web Push, store installs, analytics, and more — written for other indie browser teams.
- Indie web · May 25, 2026 · 14 min readWho Really Invented Tabbed Browsing? The Messy, Forgotten HistoryInternetWorks, NetCaptor, SimulBrowse — the real, messy history of tabbed browsing, and why the popular story that Opera invented the browser tab is a myth.
- Indie web · Apr 22, 2026 · 11 min readThe Indie Browser Renaissance: Meet the Projects Rebuilding the Web on Their Own TermsA celebratory survey of today's indie browsers — Min, Helium, Ladybird, Zen, Orion, Qutebrowser, SigmaOS, Floorp, LibreWolf, Beaker, and Nav0 — and why a scrappy wave of small projects matters in a web dominated by four vendors.
- Comparisons · Feb 4, 2026 · 14 min readBig Tech Owns Your BrowserGoogle, Microsoft, and Apple control how billions of people access the web. When your browser is made by an ad company or a platform gatekeeper, whose interests does it really serve?