What Girginos Browser does

Tabs

Open tabs, close them and move between them; a middle click closes a tab. Each tab shows the site's own icon and a loading indicator.

Tabs cannot be reordered by dragging.

Address bar

It works out whether what you typed is an address or a search. It suggests entries from your history, and the whole list can be walked with the keyboard. Search and address actions carry their own icons, while rows coming from history show the icon of the site itself.

Search engines

DuckDuckGo is the default. In Settings you can switch to Google, Yandex, Bing, Startpage or Brave.

Tracker blocker

213 built-in domains are combined with the EasyList and EasyPrivacy lists, for roughly 96,000 domains in total. The number of blocked requests appears in the toolbar, and the blocker can be switched off for an individual site.

How filter lists are refreshed

The first check runs about 15 seconds after launch and then every six hours; each list is refreshed according to its own ! Expires value, which is usually four days. The download runs in a separate, non-persistent session and keeps no cookies. With no network, the last good copy stays in use. You can add your own list in Settings: Adblock Plus, hosts and plain domain formats are accepted, and the address must be https.

Why the parser is deliberately picky

The filter parser only accepts rules whose meaning it can preserve exactly: ||domain.com^ and ||domain.com^$third-party. Path patterns, resource-type constraints, $domain= context and cosmetic filters are skipped — turning those into "block everything" breaks pages. About 85% of today's lists make it through this sieve.

Privacy headers and permissions

DNT and Sec-GPC headers are sent. Permission prompts are only accepted from the active tab. Notification, location, MIDI, clipboard and idle-detection requests are silently denied by default; each can be set to Ask, Allow or Deny in Settings. You can make one decision for an entire permission type, and clear stored data and permissions from a single screen.

Site information panel

Click the padlock in the address bar to open it. The certificate issuer, its subject, validity dates and fingerprint; the number of cookies the site has set; clearing the site's data and resetting its permissions all sit in the same panel.

New tab

A search box, frequently visited sites, shortcuts and one promotional area. No third-party ad network is involved: the cards are read from a local data file and the page makes no requests at all.

History

Search your history, move through it by day headings and clear it in one step. History recording can be turned off completely.

Bookmarks

Add them with Ctrl+D. The bookmarks bar and panel support drag-to-reorder, renaming and a right-click menu.

Downloads

The toolbar menu lists your last ten downloads. Opening an executable file raises a warning first.

Find on page

Ctrl+F opens it; you can step forward and back, and it counts the matches.

Site icons

Icons are downloaded once, written to disk and then served from a local scheme. The interface never loads an image from a remote address.

Appearance

Match the system, light or dark. The choice applies to the interface, the internal pages and the native menus together.

Languages

Türkçe, English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Italiano, Português, Русский, العربية (right-to-left), 简体中文, 日本語.

Updating

The release manifest is signed with Ed25519. The browser checks for updates itself and lets you pick a channel; the security page walks through how the verification works step by step.