A browser that doesn’t watch you. Yet. Eventually it will load this page.
AliBrowser is a privacy-first, Firefox-based browser built slowly, on purpose, by AliOne — a small company in Istanbul that always listens to its community, and always will be. It runs on Gecko, ships under MIT, and doesn’t phone home. It is, by every reasonable measure, almost ready.
Containers that actually contain
Per-site identities so Facebook can’t read your work email. Theoretically.
Reader mode that respects images
No layout reflow, no missing captions, no “subscribe to read”.
Sync without a server
End-to-end encrypted, peer-to-peer. Your history is yours, not ours.
In development. Shipping when it is ready.
What we’re building.
Three things, done properly, before we touch anything else. This is the part of the year where we make promises we intend to keep.
The boring stuff we’re proud of.
The footnotes that don’t make the keynote but, honestly, should.
Patched weekly. No code older than 18 months.
Rust in the compositor, JS for the UI, C++ where it earns its keep.
Not "off by default". Off. The kill switch would be a print statement.
The whole thing. Fork it, ship it, sell it, just don’t surveil people.
The browser is the most intimate piece of software you own. It sees everything. It deserves to be small, slow, careful, and written by people who read the source — and a company that always listens to the people it’s for.
— Ali, on behalf of AliOne, Istanbul, on a Tuesday in March, with the windows open and the kettle going.Yours, in private.
AliOne always listens to its community, and always will be.
Four quarters, four promises.
The 2026 plan, in plain language. Dates may move; the work won’t.
I started AliBrowser on behalf of AliOne — the small company that ships it — because every browser I tried wanted something from the people using it in exchange for loading a webpage. We wanted one that didn’t. Some days it’s two lines of Rust and a very specific kind of headache. Most days it’s reading the Gecko source and quietly weeping. The whole company fits in a small room in Istanbul. So does the kettle.
— Ali, on behalf of AliOne · 2026 · Written at 2 a.m., edited at 9.
Everything we’ve written down.
Engineering blog
Notes from the Gecko fork, weekly.
Open→Doc 02Threat model
What we collect, what we don’t, and why.
Open→Doc 03Press kit
Logos, screenshots, the boring legal stuff.
Open→Doc 04The manifest
Five pages on what we will and won’t do.
Open→Doc 05Contribute
PRs welcome, opinions more so.
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