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To be honest I'm surprised Emacs isn't a browser yet. It does everything else.

• danShumway 6y ago
  There are efforts, and there are things you can run, but I wouldn't personally recommend doing so. I am very paranoid about browser security, and I (frankly) don't trust smaller browser projects that aren't highly vetted by lots of people. That's an entirely separate conversation. My opinion is that it ends up being simpler and safer at the end of the day to just wrap the entire Firefox application in an Emacs buffer and then intercept keypresses to that buffer. But you do lose out on a lot of stuff by doing that; I'd love to have tighter integration.
• throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
  It has a browser, eww (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eww.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eww.html), and I think others. eww doesn't work very well yet. Try it for fun only. And it's slow. Pretty certain it does cookies but not js. I think there's an emacs web browser which delegates the actual mechanics to something external, and only acts as a front end for display/interaction. Never tried it.
  • ravar 6y ago
    I would love to know about this mythical browser, the web is one of the last things i don't have in emacs. I would dearly love to fix this.
    • throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
      https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=emacs%20%22web%20browsers%22 https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=emacs%20%22web%20browsers... get you https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryWebBrowser https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryWebBrowser as the top link. In the latter EAF isn't a web browser despite what it says. Have a look at the others. Piggyback browsers aren't going to be sophisticated, that's just how it is.
• zelphirkalt 6y ago
  There is w3m inside Emacs though, which can be good.