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HTML, CSS with Flexbox and Grid, SVG, the 2D canvas and WebGL, WebM video, and modern JavaScript with WebAssembly, all done by Lumikettu's own code. It is not Chromium, WebKit or Gecko under a new coat of paint.
What you get
What Lumikettu does already, and how it keeps out of your business.
HTTPS first
Type an address without https:// and Lumikettu asks for the secure page first. It falls back to plain HTTP only when a site does not answer over HTTPS.
Cookies kept apart
Cookies of other sites embedded in a page are kept apart for each site you visit, so they cannot follow you around the web.
Nothing phones home
No accounts, no telemetry, no update checks. Lumikettu itself talks only to the sites you visit, and to DuckDuckGo when you search from the address bar.
Tabs and downloads as you know them
The shortcuts you know from other browsers, a middle click to open a link behind or to close a tab, and zoom with Ctrl and the mouse wheel. Each download asks where it should go, and Ctrl+J lists them all.
Nothing to install
Unzip it and run it. Lumikettu keeps your cookies, site data and settings in one folder, and a session you start with /PRIVATE leaves no cookies or site data behind.
Download
Lumikettu 0.1.731 for Windows: a zip file, with nothing to install.
What it needs
- Windows 10 or Windows 11, 64-bit.
- A processor with AVX2. Intel Core processors from 2013 on and every AMD Ryzen have it; some Pentium, Celeron and Atom chips do not.
- Graphics that run Direct3D 11.
- The Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (x64), which most PCs already have. If Windows says that MSVCP140.dll or VCRUNTIME140.dll is missing, or Lumikettu closes as soon as it starts, install the latest one from Microsoft.
Getting started
- Download
Lumikettu.zip. - Right-click it, choose Extract All, and put Lumikettu in a folder of its own.
- Open
Lumikettu.exe. Lumikettu is not signed yet, so Windows may say that it protected your PC: choose More info, then Run anyway.
For a private session, start Lumikettu.exe /PRIVATE. To remove Lumikettu, delete its folder and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Lumikettu, where it keeps your cookies, site data and settings.
Keyboard and mouse
The shortcuts you know from other browsers work in Lumikettu too.
| New tab | Ctrl+T |
|---|---|
| Bring back the tab you closed | Ctrl+Shift+T |
| Close the tab | Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4 |
| Close any tab | A middle click on it |
| Next tab | Ctrl+Tab |
| Previous tab | Ctrl+Shift+Tab |
| Tabs 1 to 8 | Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+8 |
| The last tab | Ctrl+9 |
| Your downloads | Ctrl+J |
| The menu bar | Alt or F10 |
| Back | Alt+Left |
|---|---|
| Forward | Alt+Right |
| Reload | F5 or Ctrl+R |
| Stop loading | Esc |
| Go to the address bar | Ctrl+L, Alt+D or F6 |
| Open a page from your PC | Ctrl+O |
| Zoom | Ctrl and the mouse wheel |
| Actual size | Ctrl+0 |
| Open a link behind this tab | Ctrl+click or a middle click |
| Open a link in a new tab | Shift+click |
Not there yet
Lumikettu is young, and some of what you expect of a browser is still to come.
Some sites look or behave differently than in other browsers, and some do not work yet – tell us which.
Get in touch
Bug reports, requests, ideas and anything else about Lumikettu are welcome at [email protected], or come and talk about them on Lumikettu's Discord server.
What helps in a bug report
- Which versions of Lumikettu and Windows you have. Report a Problem in Lumikettu's Help menu – Alt brings the menu up – starts a mail to us with both already in it.
- The address of the page, if it is about a page.
- What happened, and what you expected to happen.
- A screenshot, if it is about how something looks.
Requests and ideas
Tell us what you would most like Lumikettu to do next, or which sites matter to you. Questions, praise and complaints are all welcome too.