About Xiao

Zen is a calm, well-made browser. Xiao keeps all of that and adds the protection people otherwise put together by hand: a blocker, a long list of privacy settings, a way to send some tabs through Tor, and a search of your own.

The name is Mandarin for small. Xiao is a small layer on top of other people's work, and it tries to stay that way: a few hundred lines of browser code, settings files, and the scripts that put them into Zen.

Built on

• Zen Browser and its build tool surfer, MPL 2.0
• Zen's website, the starting point for this one's structure and layout, MPL 2.0
• Firefox, MPL 2.0
• Ghostery's adblocker, MPL 2.0
• Tor, BSD 3-Clause, downloaded at install time; Tor Browser's circuit-per-site idea
• SearXNG, AGPL 3.0, downloaded at install time for Xiao Search
• Mullvad Browser and Tor Browser's hardening, MPL 2.0 (ideas)
• Waterfox's privacy defaults, MPL 2.0 (ideas)
• arkenfox, Betterfox and rapidfox, MIT and CC0 (ideas)
• chocobuckle's page-speed notes and rodneylab's favicon set, MIT and BSD (ideas)
• Bricolage Grotesque and Junicode, SIL Open Font License
• The look takes cues from zen-browser.app and The Browser Company's site (ideas only)

Licence

Xiao is free software under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. Thesource is on GitHub. Xiao is not affiliated with or endorsed by Zen, Mozilla, Mullvad, the Tor Project, Ghostery, SearXNG or The Browser Company. Their names are trademarks of their owners.