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Egon Browser

A custom Chromium fork with tailored privacy features and branding controls.

Chromium
Fork
Privacy
Branding

What was built

Egon is a custom Chromium fork built for a specific client rather than a general release. Tailoring its privacy behavior meant adjusting Chromium's existing privacy and data-handling defaults to match that client's requirements, instead of leaving Chromium's stock settings in place. Branding controls gave the client the ability to manage how the browser presents itself, kept separate from the underlying fork work, so identity and interface details can be maintained without touching the engineering side of the browser.

The engineering challenge

A fork inherits Chromium's privacy defaults, which are built for a general audience rather than any one client. Tailoring that behavior means going through those defaults individually and deciding which to change, which touches the same parts of the browser regardless of how small the resulting difference looks from the outside.

Engineering scope and what shipped

A custom Chromium fork
Tailored privacy features
Branding controls

Engineering approach: how it fits together

How the Egon Browser fork is put together

Egon Browser
- Branding
The client-facing product: a Chromium fork with its own name and identity.
Branding controls
- Branding
Client-side control over how the browser presents itself, kept separate from the underlying fork work.
Tailored privacy features
- Privacy
Chromium's privacy and data-handling defaults adjusted to match this client's specific requirements.
Chromium (forked)
- Fork
The open-source base the fork is built from.
Build and release
- Windows
- macOS
- Linux

Your product
Our engineering
Upstream, kept as close to unmodified as possible
Platforms and release

Egon's branding controls and privacy tailoring sit as separate layers on top of a Chromium fork built specifically for this client.

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