Catsxp browser

It has some interesting features.
The Show/Hide of bookmarks bar, changing fonts on sites and smooth and, easy access to bookmark handling overall.

Portable you say, did you have as slow download as i? It takes an hour to do it for me.
Anything and everything else i download is fast but this one, wow so slow.

 

Hm, i get 1 hour, always, and you get 7min, interesting.

When looking now i did get that. Have not looked before.

It is a really fast browser with interesting features so there is a lot to like. They update it fast to.

 

Thanks. Is the browser itself open-source?

 

Not sure. They state the following however

https://www.catsxp.com/about

 

I've been using Catsxp (it's not Catxp) as my primary browser for over a year and have been very happy with it. It's fast and is updated very often. It's based on Brave, but is updated more frequently. Some time ago they removed Brave's default block lists and I had to add them manually.

Yes it is open source.

 

I've just installed that CastXP browser.
Yes, it's light and fast, but...
I've never ever seen a/any browser leaking my ISP DNS while going through a Windows desktop VPN app.
No browsers that I've used - Firefox, Vivaldi, Edge, Brave, Chrome, etc... have leaked the ISP DNS with my desktop VPN on.

P.S. Unless someone has a "secret" how to stop it, CastXP is not for me.

 

Does it have Secure DNS settings? If it's enabled, disable it and check for DNS leaks. Disable WebRTC too for IP leaks.

Update

Secure DNS and WebRTC are available; disable both to prevent DNS and IP leaks.

 

DNS Settings:
Settings / Privacy and Security / Security

 

The download speed was normal with a download manager here. Yes, catxp.exe and chrome_proxy.exe have a certificate issue.

 

Wow, you just love living the dangerous live, don't you LOL? But what do you mean that it's based on Brave, I mean you can't just simply clone browsers like Brave and Vivaldi, correct?

 

I've been experimenting with Catsxp.
First thing first.
Catsxp leaks my ISP DNS only(!) while I'm using HideAway VPN from Firetrust.
I've switched to several different desktop VPN apps and got no leaks.
Catsxp leaks only while I'm using HideAway VPN.
I was seriously impressed with Catsxp's speed.
I have never ever seen that kind of speed with any kind of browser!
(I have the following extensions installed: uBlock Origin Lite, ClearURL's, LocalCDN, and JShelter.)




Now, some "bad" news while I'm exploring Catsxp.
I could not start Catsxp with Sandboxie!
That's not good.
Another "unhappy" Catsxp feature: Catsxp was leaking when I've tried to install a VPN extension/proxy for Catsxp.
It's just my "second LEAK defense" mentality/vision.
I've noticed the same kind of problem (from time to time) with Brave.

 

Just a question.
I've noticed that Catsxp Shield is "unruly."
I always need to check and reset that Shield to Block trackers and Upgrade to HTTPS.
It does not stay with those settings.
I've unchecked Site and Shield settings while I'm cleaning History and/or closing Catsxp.

 

I can.
But it has to be added manually.

 

Did you try disabling Secure DNS and WebRTC to prevent IP leaks?

 

Nothing dangerous as far as I know. It's a fork of Brave. Brave is open source they so they are using that with their own changes.

I experienced that issue.

 

I didn't know it was possible to fork Brave and probably Vivaldi too? But does this mean that all options are copied? It's hard for me to believe this, aren't their laws to prevent this? Although I do know about the Firefox forks like Waterfox and Pale Moon who have pretty much the same features as FF. And about trust, I don't feel comfortable using Chinese based browsers, that's why I stopped using Maxthon back in 2006, besides Opera 8 being a better browser.

 

It’s possible to fork Brave.

However Vivaldi might be more difficult (unless they changed the following recently)

https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/

 

OK so basically you can't copy their GUI, but I assume you also can't simply copy all of the functions? I mean what would be the point if everyone can profit from your hard work? So again I need to ask if Catsxp has about the same functions as Brave when it comes to for example the adblocker which also offers advanced anti-fingerprinting.

 

There are forks of Brave because it is open source which means that the source code is publicly available. So anyone can modify the source code and create a fork. This isn't the case for Vivaldi.

 

I read that the core is open-source Chromium but there's no reference to the browser itself.

 

You're right.

 

Yes, but strangely enough, nobody is answering my question. What I'm trying to figure out is what parts you can simply copy from browsers like Vivaldi and Brave. These guys have put quite a lot of time into developing the GUI and certain features that don't end up in Chromium, but only into their own browsers. Of course Firefox is a different story, because Waterfox is mostly the same with a couple of unique features. I doubt you can do the same with Vivaldi and Brave.

 

As I said, Brave is open source, which means that anyone can download the it, edit and compile it and make their own variant of it. Vivaldi isn't open source, so the source code is not publicly available.