Nordstjernen
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Nordstjernen, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Nordstjernen's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Nordstjernen | Free | Free to use · GPL 3+ or NSL-1.0 |
The facts
Each one read from Nordstjernen's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Architecture
- Each tab runs in its own sandboxed renderer process, with seccomp and Landlock sandboxing on Linux.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Availability
- The site lists builds for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and the JVM.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Downloads
- The download page lists current 1.0.29 Linux portable and Debian or Ubuntu packages, with the most recent macOS, Alpine, openSUSE, and Java packages from 1.0.23.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Features
- The browser supports JavaScript, Canvas 2D, WebCrypto, Service Workers, WebAssembly, WebGL 1 and 2, inline video, SVG, MathML, and printing.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Version 1.0.29 adds Google sign-in through to Gmail; the browser also connects to the sites, page resources, and search engine the user chooses.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Licensing
- Nordstjernen is offered under the GNU GPL version 3 or later or the Nordstjernen Source License 1.0, at the user's option.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Personal data
- The privacy policy says Nordstjernen does not collect personal data and has no analytics, crash reporting, accounts, or advertising ID use.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The browser has no telemetry or update pings, partitions cookies, and performs safe-browsing checks on-device.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Product
- Nordstjernen is an independent web browser written from scratch in C and focused on HTML and CSS standards.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security
- Nordstjernen has no JIT and its site reports an engine security audit in version 1.0.29.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Standards support
- The site reports 140 WHATWG HTML spec rows fully implemented, 31 partial, and none absent across sections 1–16 as of July 2026.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The privacy page directs questions to the Nordstjernen issue tracker.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Maker
- The project says Nordstjernen is built in Norway.checked 12 Oct 2026
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