Introducing MythBrowse

An AI-first desktop browser on the Servo engine. No Chromium. All Rust. Pre-alpha, week 1.

Pre-alpha

MythBrowse is in its first week of development. Everything below describes what exists in the repository today; nothing here is a release, and features will change.

MythBrowse is an AI-first desktop browser built on the Servo engine. No Chromium. All Rust. It targets Windows first, with Linux support too.

Where it stands

The current status is week 1: the browser chrome, history, bookmarks and tab sleeping. The AI in the address bar is an offline stub until week 2.

What's in the box today

An address bar that understands intent. A URL opens directly. Any other text is sent to the AI home as a prompt. Start with ? to search the web.
A frameless window with its own title bar. Tabs sit in the title bar; drag empty title-bar space to move the window, double-click to maximize, drag any edge to resize. On Windows the system shadow, rounded corners (Windows 11) and Aero Snap are kept.
A theme that follows the time of day (dawn, day, dusk, evening and night), using the shared JustMyth design tokens.
Local history and bookmarks. Ctrl+D bookmarks a page and Ctrl+H opens the library. Both are stored on your machine in a local SQLite profile.
Tab sleeping. Background tabs idle for 10 minutes release their engine view. Title, URL and scroll position are kept, the tab is shown dimmed with a moon icon, and it reloads when you select it.
A single executable. The browser UI is embedded in the binary.

How it's put together

MythBrowse is a set of Rust crates: the mythbrowse shell (window, chrome and tab compositing, input), a thin Servo wrapper with the tab model and omnibox, SQLite storage for history and bookmarks, an AI gateway with an OpenAI-compatible and Ollama configuration, and a built-in ad and tracker blocker. A site-compatibility layer and an end-to-end encrypted sync client exist as stubs.

What's next

The roadmap lives in the project's plan document; the next milestone mentioned in the README is turning on the AI home in week 2. Dates beyond that are not announced. Join the waitlist to hear when early builds open up, or read the MythBrowse docs.