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Nyxt Browser 2.0.0 Pre-release

23 points by jmercouris 6y ago

We are happy to announce a pre-release for Nyxt version 2! This is not a stable release! Cool new features: + New "auto-mode", automatically enables and disables modes depending on the website. Example: automatically turn on your proxy whenever visiting travel websites. + New "data profiles" help you customize and separate your data. Example: a "work" instance of Nyxt may use different cookies but the same bookmarks as the "personal" instance. + Built-in Lisp REPL CHECK out our article on our website (https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/release-2-pre-release-1.org) for more details. DOWNLOAD: https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/download SOURCE: https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt Thanks for reading :-)

mark_l_watson 6y ago
I had problems getting this to work yesterday on macOS Catalina, but it installed and ran nicely on my Ubuntu Linux laptop. I say this just to encourage people to go the Linux route as it seems easier.
- jmercouris 6y ago
  Things are not all roses on the packaging side of macOS :-) We are working on it, and help is appreciated!
  - mark_l_watson 6y ago
    It costs $99/year to be an Apple developer, but then self signing executables with codesign is fairly easy. Getting apps into the Apple App Store is a pain, not recommending that. Alternatively, I think more people use brew than macports, so that supporting a brew install would be good.
    - jmercouris 6y ago
      The hard part is getting WebKitGTK+ to compile, the rest is easy.
      - mark_l_watson 6y ago
        I am downloading the Qt dependencies, and will try a build from source on macOS using: export NYXT_RENDERER=qt
Minor49er 6y ago
I went to the Download page and hit the "Get Nyxt for GNU/Linux!" button, but it hit a 404 page. Also, just a minor suggestion, but you should style the "Download for macOS", "Download for GNU/Linux (x86-64)", and "Download Source" headers as buttons or links. It looks like they are just text headers with nothing underneath them until you click on them. The cursor doesn't even change when hovering.
- jmercouris 6y ago
  You are absolutely right! We accidentally named it "next" instead of "Nyxt". Link fixed! Sorry about that. Please try again.
  - Minor49er 6y ago
    Awesome. I am downloading it now. Thank you for the quick fix!
jolmg 6y ago
It's pretty exciting to see new web browsers where the whole source is customizable without having to do a complete recompilation. I was just evaluating switching from firefox to qutebrowser. I'll look into this one too. I see it uses webkit2gtk. I wonder how it compares to qt5-webengine, in particular with respect to the devtools. Since qt5-webengine is based on chromium, it seems preferable. Have you guys considered supporting alternate backends? EDIT: Oh! I see you guys already have a repo for a Common Lisp binding to QtWebEngine. https://github.com/atlas-engineer/cl-webengine https://github.com/atlas-engineer/cl-webengine
zzo38computer 6y ago
These new ideas are good. However, I would want to see a browser which is not based on WebKit and such things like that, instead being one specifically designed for expert users, with many differences than existing engines.
- jmercouris 6y ago
  Me too. Realistically this is far beyond our budget available :-\ I hope one day we can do this.

23 points by jmercouris 6y ago

mark_l_watson 6y ago

I had problems getting this to work yesterday on macOS Catalina, but it installed and ran nicely on my Ubuntu Linux laptop. I say this just to encourage people to go the Linux route as it seems easier.

jmercouris 6y ago
Things are not all roses on the packaging side of macOS :-) We are working on it, and help is appreciated!
- mark_l_watson 6y ago
  It costs $99/year to be an Apple developer, but then self signing executables with codesign is fairly easy. Getting apps into the Apple App Store is a pain, not recommending that. Alternatively, I think more people use brew than macports, so that supporting a brew install would be good.
  - jmercouris 6y ago
    The hard part is getting WebKitGTK+ to compile, the rest is easy.
    - mark_l_watson 6y ago
      I am downloading the Qt dependencies, and will try a build from source on macOS using: export NYXT_RENDERER=qt

Minor49er 6y ago

I went to the Download page and hit the "Get Nyxt for GNU/Linux!" button, but it hit a 404 page. Also, just a minor suggestion, but you should style the "Download for macOS", "Download for GNU/Linux (x86-64)", and "Download Source" headers as buttons or links. It looks like they are just text headers with nothing underneath them until you click on them. The cursor doesn't even change when hovering.

jmercouris 6y ago
You are absolutely right! We accidentally named it "next" instead of "Nyxt". Link fixed! Sorry about that. Please try again.
- Minor49er 6y ago
  Awesome. I am downloading it now. Thank you for the quick fix!

jolmg 6y ago

It's pretty exciting to see new web browsers where the whole source is customizable without having to do a complete recompilation. I was just evaluating switching from firefox to qutebrowser. I'll look into this one too. I see it uses webkit2gtk. I wonder how it compares to qt5-webengine, in particular with respect to the devtools. Since qt5-webengine is based on chromium, it seems preferable. Have you guys considered supporting alternate backends? EDIT: Oh! I see you guys already have a repo for a Common Lisp binding to QtWebEngine. https://github.com/atlas-engineer/cl-webengine https://github.com/atlas-engineer/cl-webengine

zzo38computer 6y ago

These new ideas are good. However, I would want to see a browser which is not based on WebKit and such things like that, instead being one specifically designed for expert users, with many differences than existing engines.

jmercouris 6y ago
Me too. Realistically this is far beyond our budget available :-\ I hope one day we can do this.