Daedalus Browser

Irtaviš Ačankif · July 27, 2011, 03:34:56 AM

I know that this isn't related to Avatar or Na'vi, but since this is GENERAL projects, I think I can post it here...

Daedalus is an open-source browser I created based on Mozilla Gecko and the .NET Framework 2.0. The first version came in November 2010 and the version number began rolling! Now it is at version 5.0.1-RC. Features:

1. Fast rendering. Daedalus uses pipelining (up to 50 connections) to speed up browsing tremendously.
2. Save bandwidth. If you are on a bandwidth-metered connection, just click on the WormHole button right to the address bar and as in Opera Turbo, your requests go through a compressor which saves up to 70 percent of bandwidth - and money!
3. Circumvent blocking. Daedalus integrates FreeU, a virtual server which tunnels you through a worldwide network of anti-blocking services, all secured with TLS. Finally, you can go to Facebook, YouTube, etc in China absolutely for free!
4. Clean interface. By lumping all options into a menu on the top left corner and hiding inactive elements, Daedalus gives lots of space to your pages.
5. Unique anti-phishing engine. Most anti-phishing engines use long and cumbersome blacklists. Not FishPhish - the completely original anti-phishing engine for Daedalus. For example, let's imagine that you are on a fake PayPal site. Instead of looking up a blacklist, Daedalus looks at the source of the webpage. If it contains suspicious similarities to PayPal, then it looks at the URL. Since it is not from PayPal, and the page is yet so similar to that of PayPal, Daedalus returns an alert. This works very well because no matter how fast phishers change addresses, they will always get caught.

Impressed? Both the download link and the source code link are here:
http://www.alusoft.tk/daedalus.php

Edit: This browser is for Windows only. Sorry.

And before you mention that, Daedalus is not an IE shell. The engine is based on Mozilla Gecko and wrapped with OpenGeckoSharp (a control I forked from abandonware GeckoFX and collaborated with 3 other smukan).

Screenshot:
http://skxawng.lu/rel/169/dae.jpg

UPDATE 20110801: DAEDALUS 5 FINAL RELEASE OUT!!!!!

The long wait to Daedalus 5 is finally over! Here are the new features:

Bug fixes
There were quite a few bugs in the Daedalus 4 line. One of them that never got noticed and never got fixed is that every time the browser is closed, the oldest bookmark disappears. Eventually this will eat all of your bookmarks, yom yom yom! This is definitely not good. Others can be called pseudo-bugs. These include inactive tabs displaying only a domain name instead of the title, the title updating after the document finishes loading instead of after the title changes. These are all fixed.

Instant translation
Tired of flipping away at a dictionary, scrambling towards nawma Google Translate, or wasting your time typing the address of old-school Babel Fish just to find the translation of an unknown lif'ya? Waste no more of your time! With Daedalus just select any text and translate direct from the context menu, powered by Google Translate! Auto-detects the language and translates to English from the English version, and Chinese from the Chinese version.

Usability += a lot
Tired of the old-school Firefox 2-ish interface of Daedalus 4? You should. Now with Daedalus 5 you get a much, nìtxan, and muy better interface with semitransparent tabs and buttons. Additionally, Daedalus now uses a custom drop-down menu for the address bar, which gives you suggestions even if you type only the middle of an address and not the beginning. Usability improves a lot!

As always, the browser is at: http://www.alusoft.tk/daedalus.php

PS: Find all of the Na'vi words in the post!

akiwiguy · July 29, 2011, 09:35:09 AM

Epicness. I shall continue my work on FishPhish tomorrow after I get some sleep

Oh, and I've added support for Facebook and the Google Accounts login page. I'll send you my modifications when I have done some more.

Kamean · July 29, 2011, 10:59:08 AM

Great

Irtaviš Ačankif · July 29, 2011, 06:53:57 PM

Irayo

Irtaviš Ačankif · July 31, 2011, 11:44:38 AM

Version 5 released officially. See first post.

By the way, my browser didn't work with Facebook? I thought it did... I don't want a facebook plugin however. Daedalus should stay clean. Really clean.

Additionally, how is your work on FishPhish going?

Tirea Aean · July 31, 2011, 12:18:40 PM

This project looks very impressive. If only it were easy to run this on a Linux machine. I have had no luck at all with Mono in the past for running .NET. and of course, WINE doesnt even like .NET either. still, I like where this is going and just wanted to show my support and concern for any possible X-platform work for it in the future. The best to the dev team.

Irtaviš Ačankif · July 31, 2011, 07:53:11 PM

Yeah. I'm deciding to move to C++/Qt or at least make a Mono-compatible version for version 6. Sorry.

By the way, the dev team is just me

Tirea Aean · July 31, 2011, 08:22:12 PM

Quote from: Uniltìrantokx te Skxawng on July 31, 2011, 07:53:11 PM
Yeah. I'm deciding to move to C++/Qt or at least make a Mono-compatible version for version 6. Sorry.

By the way, the dev team is just me

kudos to you then.

Qt works nice for cross-platform (but I'm not sure how difficult this is to develop on) Yeah, from the description and screenshot, I'm excited to use it whenever you have the time to go crossplatform

(I wish I could help, but I'm not experienced in these areas yet.)

akiwiguy · August 01, 2011, 12:07:50 AM

Quote from: Uniltìrantokx te Skxawng on July 31, 2011, 11:44:38 AM
Version 5 released officially. See first post.

By the way, my browser didn't work with Facebook? I thought it did... I don't want a facebook plugin however. Daedalus should stay clean. Really clean.

Additionally, how is your work on FishPhish going?

No, I mean support for Facebook in FishPhish. Because fake Facebook login pages are everywhere.

And it's going alright. I shall send my modifications through to you tomorrow.

It _should_ work with Mono. I shall try that tonight on my Ubuntu box.

Irtaviš Ačankif · August 01, 2011, 01:34:08 AM

The Gecko wrapper doesn't work with Mono, since the Mono Windows Forms is very buggy.

As I have said, I'm going to use a Mono-compatible wrapper and GTK+ to write version 6. This will make it cross-platform...somewhat.

Edit: I have a Kubuntu 11.04 dual-booted, and it doesn't work. Case closed. Sorry ma eylan.

Sіr. Ηaxalot · August 01, 2011, 10:15:42 AM

I really like the thinking behind your anti phising filter, but it needs to be much more tolerant for false posetives. The most apparent example is the PayPal logo which might get linked in from other websites, it ain't that uncommon.

Irtaviš Ačankif · August 01, 2011, 11:05:03 AM

Therefore I used the && statement and not ||

This means that there must be at least a few similarities (not just one or two) to be called a phishing site.

However this then bars the minority of phishing sites that look NOTHING like the original site (I even saw a wordpress-powered one with the default theme and paypal written on top of it) which gear towards pure ayskxawng.

Sіr. Ηaxalot · August 01, 2011, 05:10:31 PM

Uhm, then I'm looking on the wrong file. In Fishphish.cs in the sourcecode rep you're using || operators.

akiwiguy · August 01, 2011, 06:03:25 PM

Quote from: Sir. Haxalot on August 01, 2011, 05:10:31 PM
Uhm, then I'm looking on the wrong file. In Fishphish.cs in the sourcecode rep you're using || operators.

The FishPhish.cs in the Daedalus repo isn't used, the one in OpenGeckoSharp is instead.
https://github.com/quantum1423/OpenGeckoSharp/blob/master/Skybound.Gecko/FishPhish.cs

Sіr. Ηaxalot · August 01, 2011, 06:08:44 PM

Quote from: Eltu lefngap 'eveng on August 01, 2011, 06:03:25 PM
Quote from: Sir. Haxalot on August 01, 2011, 05:10:31 PM
Uhm, then I'm looking on the wrong file. In Fishphish.cs in the sourcecode rep you're using || operators.

The FishPhish.cs in the Daedalus repo isn't used, the one in OpenGeckoSharp is instead.
https://github.com/quantum1423/OpenGeckoSharp/blob/master/Skybound.Gecko/FishPhish.cs

But that is the one which has

akiwiguy · August 01, 2011, 06:12:29 PM

Oh lol.
I'll fork it and fix it.

akiwiguy · August 01, 2011, 06:15:12 PM

https://github.com/akiwiguy/OpenGeckoSharp/blob/d5bafa12dc8f14e0ecb0aeb35c6c79ee5bdc4ca7/Skybound.Gecko/FishPhish.cs

Irtaviš Ačankif · August 01, 2011, 07:40:25 PM

Merged back to main repo.

BTW, how is your improvements to FishPhish going?

Irtaviš Ačankif · August 10, 2011, 06:41:34 AM

Where by the name of Eywa has the new FishPhish lists gone?

akiwiguy · August 11, 2011, 02:01:04 AM

Quote from: Uniltìrantokx te Skxawng on August 10, 2011, 06:41:34 AM
Where by the name of Eywa has the new FishPhish lists gone?

Sorry. I've been caught up with school work, studying is hell. I'll commit some changes to my repo later tonight hopefully and then I'll submit a pull request.