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What can you do with this that you can't do with chrome/firefox extensions?
by petra 8y ago
What can you do with this that you can't do with chrome/firefox extensions?
- craftyguy 8y agoYou can extend it using lua.
- aey 8y agoIf Firefox is generalized to be extended with wasm - which could run a lua VM - what would be the benefit of a single language specific browser?
- nathcd 8y agoThe lua api in luakit (https://luakit.github.io/docs/ https://luakit.github.io/docs/) is trusted, meaning it has similar capabilities to pre-57 Firefox, as opposed to webextensions (in modern FF and Chrome), which are treated as untrusted and thus are somewhat more limited in what they can do.
- derefr 8y agoMake and distribute an installable app. This project is to Lua what Electron is to Javascript.
- nessunodoro 8y agoOne thing I love about luakit is the window is rendered no-frills -- just the content. I use openbox with undecorated windows, and luakit is the only web browser that lets me just have a rectangular space in my display containing web content, resizable and scalable to any dimensions I want. The vim-like interface for me is just a bonus.
- userbinator 8y agoKeep using it after the signing certificate expires. (Sorry, could not resist...)