Drice

Search is a free, open source Mac browser built on WebKit, published by Drice Roland under his studio Office Commun. The pitch is size and speed against the current default set. The launch positions it at 2.9 MB against Chrome and Dia at 1.4 GB, a 0.3 second cold open, and 51 MB of RAM at launch versus 663 MB for Chrome , with no account required and nothing collected. For Mac users who have watched Chromium-based browsers balloon in memory and disk footprint, and for developers who want an auditable WebKit shell they can read and fork, this launch matters as a concrete alternative rather than another wrapper. The feature set is deliberately narrow and built in rather than bolted on. A network-level ad blocker stops third-party trackers before the page renders, a hide-anything shortcut lets you click a cookie banner or newsletter overlay and keep it gone on that site for future visits, and there is a reading mode, picture-in-picture that floats above other apps, and keychain-backed password storage that mirrors Safari's behavior of never autofilling on its own. There is no sync, no account, no cloud, with tabs, history and passwords staying on the Mac, and no telemetry, analytics or crash reports sent anywhere . Only one window is allowed, with tabs as the sole new surface. Chrome extensions are supported through WebKit's own extension engine, the same one Safari uses, with Search itself filling in APIs WebKit lacks such as bookmarks, history, downloads, side panel, offscreen documents, fonts, notifications, speech and OAuth sign-in . Updates arrive quietly through a daily signed-build check, and the whole thing requires macOS 15.4 or later. Roland is better known as a brand and motion designer running Office Commun and co-founding projects like Norma and Logosystem, which shows in the taste level of the product even for those who never touch the code.