Methodox Lightning
Methodox Lightning is a clean, modern web browser built on Chromium, the engine behind Chrome and Edge, so pages look as they do there. What differs is everything around the page.
Methodox Lightning is not available to download yet. These pages describe what it does today.
What makes it different
- History is a graph. Every page a tab shows is kept, with how you reached it. Going back and then somewhere else does not throw away the page you left. See History.
- Tabs are a tree. They run down the left side, each under the tab that opened it. See The Window and Tabs.
- It keeps to itself. No account, no sync, no assistant, no usage reports, no automatic updates. It contacts the sites you visit and nothing else. See Privacy and Blocking.
- Your passwords are in a file you own. One KeePass file, locked with a password you choose. See Passwords, Addresses and Cards.
Pages
- The Window and Tabs: the tab tree, the address bar, sleeping tabs, languages.
- History: the graph, a tab's trail, restoring a session.
- Passwords, Addresses and Cards: saving, filling, the vault file and its lock.
- Privacy and Blocking: what the browser does not do, ad and tracker blocking, incognito windows, where your data is kept.
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Known Limitations: video formats, extensions and other things you may run into.
- Release Notes: what changed in each version.
At a glance
| Requirements | Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit |
| Engine | Chromium, with its sandbox |
| Languages | English, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語, 한국어 |
| Installs for | The current user, without administrator rights |
| Your data | %LOCALAPPDATA%\Methodox\Lightning, untouched by installing or uninstalling |