Besra

Lightweight engine and browser in C, a “hard” fork of NetSurf by Patrick Britton (author of MacSurf), dropping portability to RISC OS/Amiga/Atari to target readable modern Web on Linux, then Windows and Mac.

Facts

Developer

Patrick Britton (mplsllc)

Website

github.com

Engine

NetSurf

Derived from

NetSurf

Platforms

Linux

Popularity

1/100 — 2 GitHub stars

Key versions

1. July 15, 2026
   —NetSurfNetSurf 3.12-dev engine imported as the project's base.[1]
2. Aug. 8, 2026
   —Qt 6 becomes the only front end; the build target is renamed besra.[2]
3. Aug. 9, 2026
   —QuickJS replaces Duktape as the JavaScript engine.[3]
4. Aug. 9, 2026
   —Flatpak and .deb packages.[4]
5. Aug. 10, 2026
   0.1.3Native support for CSS var() custom properties.[5]
6. Aug. 10, 2026
   0.1.6Latest numbered version.[6]

Version sources: [1] mplsllc/besra (GitHub), [2] mplsllc/besra (GitHub), [3] mplsllc/besra (GitHub), [4] mplsllc/besra (GitHub), [5] mplsllc/besra (GitHub), [6] mplsllc/besra (GitHub)

Sources

1. https://github.com/mplsllc/besra