Meet Uzbl — a Web Browser With the Unix Philosophy

DigDuality writes "Dieter@be over at Arch Linux forums, a release engineer for Arch Linux, got inspired by this post. The idea? To create a browser based on the Unix philosophy: 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well, programs that work well together, programs to handle text streams because that is a universal interface,' among other points. The result? A fast, low-resource browser named Uzbl, based on WebKit, which passes the Acid3 Test with a perfect score. The browser is controlled (by default) by vim-like keybindings, not too dissimilar to vimperator for Firefox. Things like URL changing, loading/saving of bookmarks, saving history, and downloads are handled through external scripts that you write (though the Uzbl software does come with some nice scripts for you to use). It fits great in a tiling window manager and plays extremely well with dmenu. The learning curve is a bit steep, but once you get used to it, it's smooth sailing. Not bad for alpha software. Though built for Arch, it has been reported to work on Ubuntu."

Comments

Re:Browser name should be changed

[o0OSABO0o]

Where do these Linux / Unix people come-up with the dump ass names?!

Re:New name

[abigor]

It's called sarcasm, kid. Stop flaming everybody just because they don't like the same software you do. I understand that you just discovered Linux last week, but the rest of us aren't super impressed by this time-waster.

Re:But that's a faulty comparison

[BitZtream]

Once again, if you're doing server work from your phone, you're doing something wrong. Yes its cool, but the reality of it is, if you have to use your phone to edit something on your server, you fucked up.

So you go ahead and be all proud that you have figured out a way to use your cell phone when you aren't at work to fix something you should have done at work.

I'll spend my time while I'm not at work, not being at work and not worrying about needed to edit a file on my phone because my servers are doing their jobs and not requiring my constant attention.

You think you are cool because you can work from your phone, I am cool because I don't have to.

You don't care about learning curve because you have nothing useful to do with your time but learn how to use obscure retarded software. I have more useful things to do with my time, learning how to do obscure things with software stopped being cool when I discovered boobies. Now I use computers to make my life easier and accomplish tasks, not marvel about how much of my life I can waste reinventing the wheel or learning some hard to use pile of crap software just because I think it makes me cool that I can use some hard to use software package while everyone else just does the same thing with some easy to use package and goes and does other things while you're still looking for your vi quick reference manual.

Some of us have better things to do than be computer dorks, we grew up, have families and other priorities and likely a higher quality of life than those of you glued to your crappy hard to use editors.

Re:It's Webkit

[MrMista_B]

"if the user doesn't like the resulting complexity of the interface, the proper response is to tell them to shut up"

Comments like that lead me to believe that you're one of those people that are the reason why people still prefer to use Windows.

If you're trying to get something to see the usefulness of your point of view, telling them to 'shut up' reveals you to be a trollish thug, and that association extends wo whatever you're trying to share.

So in short, yeah. People like you are what's wrong with Linux.