bubdm / sharpbrowser

A full featured web-browser built using C# and CefSharp

SharpBrowser is the fastest open source C# web browser there is! Slightly faster than Google Chrome when rendering web pages due to lightweight CEF renderer. We compared every available .NET browsing browsing engine and finally settled on the high-performance CefSharp. Released under the permissive MIT license.

Features

• HTML5, CSS3, JS, HTML5 Video, WebGL 3D, etc
• Tabbed browsing
• Address bar (also opens Google)
• Back, Forward, Stop, Refresh
• Developer tools
• Search bar (also highlights all instances)
• Download manager
• Custom error pages
• Custom context menu
• Easily add vendor-specific branding, buttons or hotkeys
• View online & offline webpages

Hotkeys

Hotkeys	Function
Ctrl+T	Add a new tab
Ctrl+N	Add a new window
Ctrl+W	Close active tab
F5	Refresh active tab
F12	Open developer tools
Ctrl+Tab	Switch to the next tab
Ctrl+Shift+Tab	Switch to the previous tab
Ctrl+F	Open search bar (Enter to find next, Esc to close)

System requirements

• You need VC++ 2015 Runtime 32-bit and 64-bit versions

• You need .NET Framework 4.6.

• You need to install the version of VC++ Runtime that CEFSharp needs. Since we are using CefSharp 89, according to this we need the above versions

Getting started

1. Download the project as a ZIP from Github

2. You need to unpack src\bin.zip to create the src\bin folder which contains important CefSharp binaries. The project will not work properly without this!

3. Open the main solution SharpBrowser.sln and run it.

4. If you have any issues with CefSharp, delete all the files in the bin folder (except the storage subfolder) and run a Nuget restore by building (F5) or manually restoring (nuget restore command).

Code

• SharpBrowser uses CefSharp 89 and is built on NET Framework 4.6
• SharpBrowser supports AnyCPU as well as x86/x64 specific builds
• MainForm.cs - main web browser UI and related functionality
• Handlers - various handlers that we have registered with CefSharp that enable deeper integration between us and CefSharp
• Data/JSON.cs - fast JSON serializer/deserializer
• bin - Binaries are included in the bin folder due to the complex CefSharp setup required. Don't empty this folder.
• bin/storage - HTML and JS required for downloads manager and custom error pages

Credits

• Robin Rodricks - SharpBrowser project.
• Alex Maitland - CefSharp project, wrapper for CEF embeddable browser.
• Ahmet Uzun - Original browser project.

Screenshots

Apple Homepage

Google Maps

Search Bar

Downloads Tab

Developer Tools

Custom Error Pages