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Conkeror – Keyboard-oriented, customizable, extensible web browser

67 pointsby freeman478over 10 years ago

12 comments

quartertoover 10 years ago
Name feels a little too close Konqueror to me. It's odd, nothing about this browser suggests an association with conkers, yet they've chosen this name which is very similar to an existing browser.
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fellytone84over 10 years ago
I consider Mooz&#x27;s Keysnail Firefox add-on to be the most impressive keyboard oriented browsing tool. It&#x27;s endlessly configurable, dotfiles in javascript--really nice to work with.<p>For Chrome, the Vimium extension is very good, but recently I&#x27;ve been having a lot of fun with a similar, more configurable alternative called chromium-vim.<p>Keysnail: <a href="https://github.com/mooz/keysnail/wiki" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mooz&#x2F;keysnail&#x2F;wiki</a> Vimium: <a href="http://vimium.github.io/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimium.github.io&#x2F;</a> chromium-vim: <a href="https://github.com/1995eaton/chromium-vim" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;1995eaton&#x2F;chromium-vim</a>
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suprjamiover 10 years ago
What a strange keyset. It looks like part Emacs, part Vim, and part whatever the author thought was a good idea at the time. Some are quite intuitive (s to save link) and some are like wat (slash to view source).<p>As someone who really tried both Vimperator and Pentadactyl but eventually gave up and went back to mouse, this piques my interest.
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gosuover 10 years ago
I&#x27;m a very happy user. It&#x27;s pretty well designed, and extensible in javascript. It&#x27;s nice having EVERYTHING about the browser at your fingertips in fully customizable way, not just the the link-following mechanism. I use lots of vim hotkeys, just like I do in emacs.<p>Conkeror has sometimes struggled to keep up with xulrunner development, and there are sometimes bugs.
dyadicover 10 years ago
I was a dedicated conkeror user until ~4 years ago and loved it. The webjumps were a pleasure to use, the Google I&#x27;m feeling lucky jump was a particular favorite. Having everything scriptable and being able to add my own specific functionality had great potential, I dug a bit but never really used the full power that I&#x27;m sure was available.<p>I started using conkeror after a shoulder injury that was being aggravated by mouse use, it was not particularly pleasant at the time but left me much more mouse-independent after I&#x27;d fully recovered.<p>I eventually left Conkeror because of a few hassles, I remember trying to set it as the default browser was not very simple, and just trying to get it (and XUL) installed and running would sometimes fail. This is a nice reminder though, I feel tempted to track down my old .conkerorrc and give it another roll.
rgrauover 10 years ago
Combining emacs&#x27; org-protocol and conkeror, when I&#x27;m on a github repo, I can easily type &#x27;m-x clone-repo&#x27; in my browser, and make it send to emacs the url, and run any elisp function to clone the repo in my ~&#x2F;projects directory.<p>Same for creating branches with standarized names when I&#x27;m on an issue page.<p>These kind of things make my daily browsing life easier. Here&#x27;s a more detailed explanation: <a href="http://puntoblogspot.blogspot.com.es/2013/06/well-after-month-of-no-activity-in-this.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;puntoblogspot.blogspot.com.es&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;well-after-mont...</a>
kinleydover 10 years ago
As an Emacs user, switching to Conkeror was great for me. It helped me consolidate muscle memory for the two applications I most use.<p>We have a nice little community on G+ as well: <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/106737437567911832239" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plus.google.com&#x2F;u&#x2F;0&#x2F;communities&#x2F;10673743756791183223...</a>
busterover 10 years ago
Unfortunately no screenshots and i don&#x27;t like the default key bindings. I have been using dwb ( <a href="http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;portix.bitbucket.org&#x2F;dwb&#x2F;</a> ) for a while now and it&#x27;s great! (Apart from some glitches on a few websites)
sevengraffover 10 years ago
I&#x27;m disappointed that I can&#x27;t C-x 3 to have web pages side-by-side, but I really, really like being able to switch between tabs with C-x b. I think I&#x27;ll be giving this some time.
hardwaresoftonover 10 years ago
Some pictures on the front page would have been nice...
jamespoover 10 years ago
More than this what I would really like is a console mode browser that supports javascript
sasvariover 10 years ago
for those interested in a keyboard oriented webbrowser, check out <i>uzbl</i> [0] as well.<p>[0] <a href="http://www.uzbl.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uzbl.org&#x2F;</a>