Tabi

Tabi is a general-purpose desktop browser built on Min (Electron, plain JavaScript) with a sea glass UI. It started as an X/Twitter-only browser and was refocused into a daily-driver browser.

What's in the box:

• Tab groups ("buckets") in a vertical sidebar, with a masonry tab overview (visual thumbnails, drag to regroup)
• Containers: run multiple logins for the same site side by side, per-tab cookie isolation
• Built-in ad, tracker, malware and phishing blocking (Ghostery engine)
• URL cleaning (tracking query params stripped), DNS over HTTPS
• Userscript manager plus Chrome Web Store extension support via electron-chrome-extensions
• Built-in PDF reader, full-text history search, tab import from Chrome/Edge/Firefox/Zen and other browsers

Honest limitations:

• No Widevine DRM, so Netflix and similar protected streams won't play
• No Google Safe Browsing; malicious-site blocking uses downloaded blocklists instead
• Extension support is partial (not every Chrome API is implemented)
• No sync; settings and data live locally
• Engine updates (Electron/Chromium) are bumped manually by editing electronVersion in package.json; the app itself updates automatically, see below

Updating

• Each release bumps the patch version in package.json; the app checks GitHub Releases and updates itself.
• Only the NSIS-installed build (Tabi-Setup-<version>.exe, per-user, installs to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Tabi) auto-updates. The portable zip never phones home — replace the folder to update it.
• npm run releaseTabi builds the installer, latest.yml, the .blockmap and the portable zip into dist/app/, then prints the exact gh release create command. Append --publish (npm run releaseTabi -- --publish) to execute it. It fails if v<version> already exists as a tag or release — bump the version first.
• First install of the unsigned installer shows a SmartScreen "Windows protected your PC" warning: choose More info → Run anyway.

Build

npm install
npm run build
npm start          # dev mode (alt+ctrl+r reloads the UI)
npm run buildTabi  # produces dist/app/tabi-v<version>-windows-x64.zip

Other upstream build scripts (buildWindows, buildMacIntel, buildDebian, ...) still exist but are untested for Tabi.

Credits and license

Tabi is a fork of Min, which is Apache-2.0 licensed; Min's LICENSE and NOTICE are kept intact for the Min-derived code. Because Tabi links electron-chrome-extensions, Tabi as a whole is licensed GPL-3.0.