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Web browsers

Authors: Nova[有線魔女] <novaburst@envs.net>

Date: 2021-06-16

LibreWolf

Same opinion as with UGC, except that instead of Chromium it's Firefox, and instead of Google it's Mozilla

Luakit

This is the browser on which I (used to) do my daily web surfing , which I customized to my needs.

For example, I modified two of its core modules to make the browser actually more usable, like disabling JavaScript and other plugins by default , removed corporate search engines, and added others, more privacy respecting ones.

And other miscellaneous things to it like user-agent spoofing and caret browsing (which allows scrolling using Vim-like keybindings) , and its default homepage to "about:blank"

If I ever want to visit other sites part of the "modern" web (thankfully it's not much) , I use Falkon , which I'll mention later on this post. Other than that , Luakit seems fine to me , almost never crashed, and I feel comfy using it.

Falkon

This was my backup web browser which I use for browsing "modern" sites and the Fediverse social media , but also development platforms like Gitea or SourceHut.

While I don't use it much and it's barely customized , it works how I want it to work.

Unlike luakit I can't use Vim-like keybindings here without an addon (and Falkon kind of lacks addon support) , but that's not much of a problem.

It sometimes crashes , but it's due to running out of memory , thus requiring me to close some running programs on my host. Otherwise it's a nice browser.

Epiphany

I once tried this web browser but given that I don't like touchscreen UI on desktop and this had practically no useful keybindings I don't use it.

Netsurf

Really nice browser, but I mostly was reluctant to daily drive it for odd reasons. Most HTML5 sites are broken on this browser (it's a feature and that's good) because it's a real web browser for real web standards.

Qutebrowser

This one was once my main browser but because it's too heavy for my host (both memory usage and disk space) I stopped using it.

I would consider using it again but I'm just reluctant. It works fine on my laptop though.

Vimb

Really good and all but doesn't support disabling JavaScript neither it has a per-domain whitelist[*].

Also it lacks tabs but for that the "tabbed" utility from suckless.org can be attached to the browser.

[*] This was proven false by ~shokara , also the whitelisting on vimb is really tricky to do

Badwolf

This is by far , one of the best web browsers out there, almost extremely minimal, but even that bored me enough to not use it. Weird

Lariza

Building it from sources wasn't entirely difficult at all.

Another browser which follows the minimalist fashion, like Badwolf.

Though it does not have Vi-like keybindings (even though it's mentioned on badwolf's page) so it requires learning how to use it.

Also for tabs it can use "tabbed"

Ungoogled Chromium

It's still Chromium under the hood, despite the efforts of its developer to go against Google itself

wyeb

Just couldn't get used to this browser, unlike other Vim-like browsers this one kinda sucks.

It also supports the use of "tabbed" for browser tabs.