Uzbl: a browser that adheres to the Unix philosophy

I use this browser. It's put together mainly by a bunch of Arch Linux users. It's little more than a thin wrapper around webkit providing pipes and things. It requires a <i>lot</i> of work to configure, (unless you copy the default) but it's very lightweight and integrates with some systems and styles of work better.<p>Edit: : A few more thoughts,<p>If you like the stuff that the suckless people (<a href="http://suckless.org/" rel="nofollow">http://suckless.org/</a>) put out, you will like uzbl. Otherwise it might be a bit of a culture shock. I still haven't been able to let completely go of firefox yet.

Just noticed that there've already been interesting discussions about Uzbl on HN:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=626281" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=626281</a><p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=578618" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=578618</a><p>What I wonder the most about is why they don't try to bring a command line interface to firefox, kind of like how you can call safari and its content from applescript.<p>I think firefox can already be used with keyboard shortcuts only and they have a hard time getting their browser to be half as fast.<p>What configurability is concerned, I think that mozillas choice of saving all the user configs etc in a sqlite database is easy enough to access by script.<p>Still interesting and probably good fun to fool around with!

It's worth mentioning conkeror as well -- it's basically Firefox with emacs keybindings. You can use the mouse if you want (as training wheels) and a lot of FF plugins still work.<p>Moreover, the .conkerorrc is in javascript rather than emacs lisp. Very cool.

Just downloaded this and gave it for a whirl. Running Ubuntu (Jaunty), it definitely felt buggy. (Which is ok, considering it's stage in development)<p>For starters, the window maximized height-wise past my screen and I couldn't resize it so I had trouble seeing everything (all I did was copy the default config)<p>Additionally, loading up YouTube.com in it made it grind to a crawl. Video loaded, but the front page took a good 10 second pause before it was fully loaded.<p>I like the idea though and I plan to tinker with it more in hopes that it is more ... uzbl :)

I am running it now (just got it through arch linux package management), and it has made a good first impression. I liked the transparency of all settings within the config file, customizable keybindings, ect. The defaults seem pretty usable; probably the most apparent problem that I can see is its speed -- for instance, loading hulu took quite some time.

Here I am thinking that it's a required nowadays that browsers are huge, hulking monsters because of the multitude of things that need to be parsed and rendered on a web page. A minimal and unix-y browser sounds wonderful.<p>I've been enjoying Arora lately because of how small and lightweight it is, it runs blazingly fast on my old 64mb/333mhz: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/arora/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/arora/</a><p>How does Uzbl match up to it in terms of memory usage? I'm (probably wrongfully) assuming it runs slowly because it's written in python.

Unix philosophy is great for some things, not so great for others. C'mon, handle my bookmarks through an external script? No, thank you. I'll keep with Chrome/Firefox/Safari.

Isn't XULRunner bit like this

&#62; letter-spacing: -1px;<p>Please don't do this for copy.

awesome What about flash?

Warning: Doesn't work on Windows yet.