Meridian — an experimental web browser built on Servo and GPUI

22 points by icy 6 hours ago on lobsters | 3 comments

Meridian is a web-browser for MacOS built on GPUI and Servo. Meridian is already quite useful to browse websites that are light on javascript and layouting features. The browser is highly configurable: fonts, keybinds, colors, tabs and all.

Meridian with vertical tabs, showing the Meridian homepage

To try Meridian, you can use nix:

nix run git+https://tangled.org/oppi.li/meridian

The project is developed on Tangled, all contributions are welcome, please do browse the list of open issues if you are looking to contribute!

Meridian supports the following features:

Address bar with typeahead
Vertical and horizontal tabs
Bookmarks and history
Per-site zoom
Audio and video playback
Reader mode
Tab previews

Under the hood, Meridian is written in Rust and built on GPUI and Servo. Web pages and browser state is managed by Servo. The browser's chrome is drawn by gpui, the UI framework behind the Zed editor. The glue code to interface servo with gpui lives in separate library, gpui-servo, which exposes Servo as an ordinary gpui component, so anybody can now write a servo-based browser in GPUI!