# A minimal viable browser: what changed in v1.2.0, sgit.ai

> The changes to the article "A minimal viable browser" in v1.2.0, paragraph by paragraph.

*Source: <https://newsroom.sgit.ai/articles/versions/a-minimal-viable-browser/v1.2.0.html> · sgit.ai v0.7.87 · this file is generated from the same content as the page, so the two cannot drift. Every page on this site has a `.md` twin; internal links below point at them.*

---

[Home](../../../index.md) / [Articles](../../index.md) / [A minimal viable browser](../../a-minimal-viable-browser.md) / [Versions](../a-minimal-viable-browser.md) / v1.2.0

# A minimal viable browser: what changed in v1.2.0

From v1.1.0 (2026-10-18, `e9fbb78e9`) to v1.2.0 (2026-10-27, `db67c5ce1`), paragraph by paragraph.

0 paragraphs added, 0 removed, 1 changed in place, 64 unchanged. About 0 words added and 66 removed. Insertions are marked like this, deletions like this; unchanged runs are folded to one line; figures appear as their file names.

[← v1.1.0](v1.1.0.md) · [all versions](../a-minimal-viable-browser.md)

2 unchanged paragraphs

!shot mb-browser.webp | images/ | A minimal viable browser: a small kernel of network, TLS, parsing, layout and process isolation, reviewed hardest and changed least; andkernel, components loaded only when needed, from JavaScript, with or without the JIT, to media, WebGL, PDF, downloads, extensions and sync. Threethree shapes from the same engine: a browser for one app, with only JavaScript and forms; a browser for one agent, the same; and the reader's own browser, with everything they use loaded as they use it and each extension in its own box.engine. | concept

62 unchanged paragraphs, under In short {#in-short}, The biggest program we run {#biggest}, What a minimal viable browser looks like {#shape}…

[← v1.1.0](v1.1.0.md) · [all versions](../a-minimal-viable-browser.md)


---

*[Site index for agents](../../../llms.txt) · [HTML version](https://newsroom.sgit.ai/articles/versions/a-minimal-viable-browser/v1.2.0.html)*
