Web Browsers
1 open source tools compared. Sorted by stars — scroll down for our analysis.
| Tool | Stars | Velocity | Language | License | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 chromium The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source | 23.3k | +83/wk | C++ | BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License | 84 |
Our Analysis
This is the open source browser engine that powers Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera, and most other browsers you use daily. If you're building a browser, an embedded web view, or anything that needs to render web pages, Chromium is the engine. 23K stars on the GitHub mirror, BSD-3 licensed. To be clear: this is not a tool you install from npm. This is one of the largest open source projects in existence — millions of lines of C++. The GitHub repo is a mirror of Google's internal repository. Fully free and open source. Google funds most development. You can build Chromium from source and ship your own browser. The catch: unless you're building a browser or doing engine-level development, you don't interact with this repo directly. Most developers use Chromium through Electron, Puppeteer, or Playwright. Building from source takes hours on a powerful machine and requires specific toolchains. The star velocity (83/week) reflects interest, not usability — this is infrastructure that 3 billion people use daily but almost no one builds from source.