Sable — Privacy-First Desktop Browser
A cross-platform desktop browser built on Electron and Chromium with privacy as the default, not a setting — with a Rust/Axum backend service in the next phase.
Role
Owner and sole developer
Timeline
2025 — Present
Stack
Electron / TypeScript / Chromium
Year
2026
Fig. 01 — Sable — Privacy-First Desktop Browser
The problem
Mainstream browsers treat privacy as a setting you opt into, buried behind defaults tuned for advertising. Hardening one after the fact only goes so far when the engine itself is not on your side.
The approach
Evaluated Tauri against Electron and chose Electron: the bundled Chromium costs binary size but gives direct control over the engine's privacy surface, which is the whole product. Architected a phased roadmap — the TypeScript/Electron client first, with a Rust (Axum) backend service in the next phase to take sync and heavier work off the renderer.
The outcome
In active development. The architecture decision and phased roadmap are set; the Electron client is the current phase.