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RedHat still offers Konqueror (Safari's father, and Chrome's grandfather) in their repositories. I think that would likely be a better base to revive a communit
by chasil 5y ago
RedHat still offers Konqueror (Safari's father, and Chrome's grandfather) in their repositories. I think that would likely be a better base to revive a community browser.
After some discussion of suckless.org last week, I decided to load "surf," the suckless webkit browser, on OpenBSD.
The URL appears to be specified only on the command line, not in the GUI (the Ctrl-G sequence in the manual page does not appear to work). I can't get it to accept a self-signed cert (easy in any other browser). No back/forward button in the default GUI, and I can't get them to come up.
Browsers are hard, and they require a funded and dedicated organization to maintain them.
- smorgusofborg 5y agoFrom time to time I use surf, but it isn't a fair example of what is hard. Suckless.org's philosophy means you may need to recompile for any configuration change and something like trusting a self-signed cert is often done via configuration.
- gtk40 5y agoI still use Konqueror as a file browser. There was a day I used it for web browsing + file managing (back in KDE 3 days), but there's very few updates being made to KHTML these days and it has stagnated.
- chasil 5y agoI had heard that Konqueror had removed KHTML, and substituted a qt widget that bundled a recent Apple webkit. I'm not sure about this status, and I'd have to look it up.