Uzbl: Lightweight webkit browser following the Unix philosophy

I think people are missing the point here. So yes, the webkit portion is large and complicated, but the idea here is that you can use whatever you want to script together the ui pieces and keyboard commands etc. That is really useful if, for example, you want to use your WM's tabbing of windows, rather than have the tabs built into the browser itself (or not use tabs at all and use different desktops entirely). The point is that with some of these minimal linux systems (mostly Arch+awesome/xmonad/dwm etc), you can integrate the browser itself better because uzbl is designed to be accessed in the smallest atomic unit a browser can actually be.

Browsers are the antithesis of the "unix philosophy". They do everything from cryptography to typography to networking to accelerated graphics. And its still not enough for people.<p>(I don't need to mention that just because you put a thin layer on top of a monstrous browser library that does all of the above, that doesn't make the scope of your program limited, right?)

Been using uzbl on Arch for a few months now. Great little browser!<p>The biggest <i>selling point</i> for me was the keyboard-centric control. I use a keyboard-centric window manager and I use vim for code editing, so everything I do on my Linux install is with the keyboard and uzbl makes web browsing keyboard based too.

There's no such thing as a "lightweight webkit browser". Just because you delegate all the hard stuff to a library, you're not "lightweight".

The Unix philsophy works great, because it allows you to pipe data from one program to another, and thus build something that you want from primitives.<p>Now I wonder, how can a Unixified browser combine with other shell programs in a meaningful way?<p>Without having tried it, I'd expect all of the controll stuff (actual browsing experience, ad blocker, bookmarker) to be written specifically for this browser. Is that correct?

Wow, as a emacs user, I think the "conkeror" browser is better : it's entirely based on firefox, but uses javascript as its extension languge. Just like Emacs, kernel + extension , instead of lightweight or 'unix philosophy'

I came across <a href="http://pwmt.org/projects/jumanji/" rel="nofollow">http://pwmt.org/projects/jumanji/</a> today and thought it was similar to uzbl. I noticed there's not an easy way to install it short of compiling it your self on Ubuntu though. Not a big deal, really, just not something I'll attempt today.

I really like Uzbl, but I noticed that after a couple of "tabs" it gets really slow unfortunately.

Couldn't get this to run on OSX despite installing it through macports. Would love to use it as well on Windows as Chrome keeps getting more and more bloated