Uzbl

Uzbl is a free minimalist web browser for Unix - like operating systems. The name Uzbl is homophonic spoken to the English word usable, which means usable or useful. Uzbl is originally developed for Arch Linux, and as committed to this minimalism. The design follows the Unix ideals - eg reusable, optimized tools for each to have only one task. This software is also very slim and fast.

Technology

Uzbl is developed in C and released as free software under the GNU General Public License (GPL version 3 ). For the WebKit rendering is being used. The functionality is extensible and customizable with embedded scripts. Configurations are stored in ASCII text files. It can be controlled via standard input ( FIFO pipe) and POSIX Local IPC Sockets; it can also be a file is passed as it happens with the configuration file.

Features

Uzbl cares basically just to make browsing; any additional functionality is to be provided from outside the browser, for example, by scripts or other software. This should be as far as possible adapted to the browser. The surface is filled up to a status bar completely from the illustrated document and therefore has no controls or similar. For a Multiple Document Interface with tabs is a Python script called Uzbl - tabbed available, which is included as an example script by default. The use of WebKit as the rendering engine contributes greatly to high speed, ensuring a high-quality rendering, which is the Acid 3 test is error-free, for example, and brings a good support for many web standards (HTML, XML, XPath, CSS, ECMAScript, DOM, SVG) and an interface for Netscape extension modules ( eg Flash).

Operation

It can be fully operated with user-definable keyboard shortcuts with the keyboard. However, the keyboard controller is not required to call hyperlinks and actions needed, which in the context menu available, or placed on mouse buttons, such as scrolling through the site visit Chronicle. Operation with the keyboard is comparatively difficult to learn at first, but afterwards in use efficiently. The concept of keyboard -based selecting hyperlinks or other elements in the displayed document is based on the Firefox extension vimperator: From the references in the document are visible at a certain cut is selected and triggered to an action such as opening of each document addressed. This is done by one of the on button on-screen, the references assigned numbers or strings from the desired reference is input to the uniqueness.

History

The idea for the new browser was created in spring 2009 on the web forum of Arch Linux, since no browser was found, which is designed strictly according to the Unix philosophy. Dieter Plaetinck then began with the development and was soon supported by other developers from a very active community. On April 21, the first code has been released. The product was after two months of development time in a usable state. There are next to Kompilieranleitungen for a number of Linux distributions and Mac OS X / Darwin ( MacPorts ) also some ready binary packages is available, although there is still no officially designated as a stable version. September 21, 2009 Uzbl was included in the Debian operating system and taken there on October 2, 2009 in the testing branch.

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