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v0.1.0 | First open-source release of BrowserOxide — a from-scratch stealth headless browser engine in Rust: own HTTP/1+2+3 + BoringSSL TLS stack, V8 via deno_core, from-scratch CSS/DOM/layout/canvas, configurable browser-identity profiles, and a CDP-compatible debugging surface. Dual-licensed MIT OR Apache-2.0.

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Added

  • From-scratch browser engine: HTML parser, arena-allocated DOM + Shadow DOM +
    iframes, CSS parser/selectors/values/cascade, layout, and Canvas 2D / WebGL
    rendering — no Chromium, no fork.
  • Stealth networking stack: HTTP/1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 with Chrome-identical
    TLS ClientHello + HTTP/2 fingerprint via boring2 (Cloudflare BoringSSL fork).
  • Native (not injected) browser fingerprint via configurable stealth profiles
    (Chrome 148 / Firefox 135 / Safari 18 desktop + mobile presets), loadable
    from YAML/JSON.
  • JavaScript runtime on V8 (deno_core 0.403) with Web-platform APIs, workers,
    and an event loop.
  • ChallengeSolver trait + Page::navigate_with_solvers hook for embedders;
    no per-vendor bypass code ships in the public crate (see SCOPE.md).
  • Python bindings (PyO3), published to PyPI as browser-oxide.
  • MCP server (browser_oxide_mcp) for AI assistants.
  • CDP-compatible debugging/automation surface (Puppeteer/Playwright drop-in).

Performance

  • Single-process architecture: ~60–135 MB peak RSS per page vs a headless-Chrome
    process tree's 1–2 GB — roughly 15× lighter (see docs/MEMORY.md).
  • Warm PagePool amortizes V8 isolate + snapshot setup across navigations.

Notes

  • Anti-bot corpus: routed 118/126 commercially-protected sites to a real render
    in a same-machine, same-IP cleanroom run, with zero per-vendor bypass code
    (see docs/BENCHMARK.md).
  • Python wheels ship for macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel) and Windows. The Linux
    wheel is deferred to 0.1.1: the prebuilt V8 uses a local-exec TLS model that
    can't link into a -shared CPython extension, and a from-source rebuild isn't
    possible from the crates.io v8 tarball. The Linux package will land via a
    sidecar (engine binary + thin Python client). The Rust crate and the MCP server
    are unaffected and support Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Installation

Rust (crates.io)

cargo add browser_oxide

Python (PyPI)

pip install browser-oxide

MCP Server (for AI assistants)

cargo install browser_oxide_mcp

Or download a pre-built browser-oxide-mcp binary for Linux, macOS, or Windows
from the assets below.

Platform Support (MCP binary)

Platform Architecture Archive
Linux x86_64 (glibc) browser-oxide-mcp-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
macOS ARM64 (Apple Silicon) browser-oxide-mcp-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
macOS x86_64 (Intel) browser-oxide-mcp-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
Windows x86_64 browser-oxide-mcp-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for full details.

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