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Conkeror – Keyboard-oriented, customizable, extensible web browser

67 points by freeman478 12y ago

kinleyd 12y ago
As an Emacs user, switching to Conkeror was great for me. It helped me consolidate muscle memory for the two applications I most use. We have a nice little community on G+ as well: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/106737437567911832239 https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/10673743756791183223...
suprjami 12y ago
What a strange keyset. It looks like part Emacs, part Vim, and part whatever the author thought was a good idea at the time. Some are quite intuitive (s to save link) and some are like wat (slash to view source). As someone who really tried both Vimperator and Pentadactyl but eventually gave up and went back to mouse, this piques my interest.
- JetSpiegel 12y ago
  slash to view source is what lynx uses.
  - hollerith 12y ago
    Not true. In Lynx, backslash views the source; slash is search, very much like it works in vi.
    - JetSpiegel 12y ago
      Ugh, that's right, my bad.
quarterto 12y ago
Name feels a little too close Konqueror to me. It's odd, nothing about this browser suggests an association with conkers, yet they've chosen this name which is very similar to an existing browser.
- Danieru 12y ago
  I aggree. Konqueror is no niche browse, it's the grandfather of half the mainline browsers.
  - quarterto 12y ago
    I'd say more. 90% of mobile browsers are WebKit/Blink-based.
    - tudborg 12y ago
      And WebKit is based on? And Blink is based on?
      - laumars 12y ago
        That was his point. You might have missed the first sentence in his post which said "I'd say more." He was saying the 50% estimate was too conservative.
        tudborg 12y ago
        Damn. i failed :(
  - nailer 12y ago
    +1 I doubt it would cause confusion, but it's nice to be respectful to existing OSS projects and anyone that makes web browsers should have a lot of respect for Konquerer.
    - smeyer 12y ago
      Just now, I was confused. I remembered there were two browsers with roughly the same name, and when I saw the title I had to think about which was which.
- dyadic 12y ago
  Yes, when I would tell people I used Conkeror they'd always reply with, "Ah yes, I know Konqueror". That was only really IRL conversations, with text based mediums I don't think I had any confusions.
fellytone84 12y ago
I consider Mooz's Keysnail Firefox add-on to be the most impressive keyboard oriented browsing tool. It's endlessly configurable, dotfiles in javascript--really nice to work with. For Chrome, the Vimium extension is very good, but recently I've been having a lot of fun with a similar, more configurable alternative called chromium-vim. Keysnail: https://github.com/mooz/keysnail/wiki https://github.com/mooz/keysnail/wiki Vimium: http://vimium.github.io/ http://vimium.github.io/ chromium-vim: https://github.com/1995eaton/chromium-vim https://github.com/1995eaton/chromium-vim
- arh68 12y ago
  Only because you didn't mention it: Vimperator [1]. It's what I used to use. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimperator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimperator
  - sasvari 12y ago
    pentadactyl [0] is also noteworthy. [0] http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/ http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/
- objectified 12y ago
  I use VimFx in Firefox as an alternative to Chrome's Vimium, it works quite well for me.
- hobofan 12y ago
  I tried multiple extension for chrome, but none of them felt really satisfying. All of them have to replicate the omnibox and don't work on special tabs (Downloads, New Tab, etc) I know that it isn't the extensions fault, but it compromises the usability too much for them to be viable.
drstrangevibes 12y ago
tldr; git clone git://repo.or.cz/conkeror.git && firefox -app ./conkeror/application.ini
buster 12y ago
Unfortunately no screenshots and i don't like the default key bindings. I have been using dwb ( http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/ http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/ ) for a while now and it's great! (Apart from some glitches on a few websites)
sasvari 12y ago
for those interested in a keyboard oriented webbrowser, check out uzbl [0] as well. [0] http://www.uzbl.org/ http://www.uzbl.org/
dyadic 12y ago
I was a dedicated conkeror user until ~4 years ago and loved it. The webjumps were a pleasure to use, the Google I'm feeling lucky jump was a particular favorite. Having everything scriptable and being able to add my own specific functionality had great potential, I dug a bit but never really used the full power that I'm sure was available. I started using conkeror after a shoulder injury that was being aggravated by mouse use, it was not particularly pleasant at the time but left me much more mouse-independent after I'd fully recovered. I eventually left Conkeror because of a few hassles, I remember trying to set it as the default browser was not very simple, and just trying to get it (and XUL) installed and running would sometimes fail. This is a nice reminder though, I feel tempted to track down my old .conkerorrc and give it another roll.
gosu 12y ago
I'm a very happy user. It's pretty well designed, and extensible in javascript. It's nice having EVERYTHING about the browser at your fingertips in fully customizable way, not just the the link-following mechanism. I use lots of vim hotkeys, just like I do in emacs. Conkeror has sometimes struggled to keep up with xulrunner development, and there are sometimes bugs.
jamespo 12y ago
More than this what I would really like is a console mode browser that supports javascript
rgrau 12y ago
Combining emacs' org-protocol and conkeror, when I'm on a github repo, I can easily type 'm-x clone-repo' in my browser, and make it send to emacs the url, and run any elisp function to clone the repo in my ~/projects directory. Same for creating branches with standarized names when I'm on an issue page. These kind of things make my daily browsing life easier. Here's a more detailed explanation: http://puntoblogspot.blogspot.com.es/2013/06/well-after-month-of-no-activity-in-this.html http://puntoblogspot.blogspot.com.es/2013/06/well-after-mont...
hardwaresofton 12y ago
Some pictures on the front page would have been nice...
sevengraff 12y ago
I'm disappointed that I can't C-x 3 to have web pages side-by-side, but I really, really like being able to switch between tabs with C-x b. I think I'll be giving this some time.

67 points by freeman478 12y ago

As an Emacs user, switching to Conkeror was great for me. It helped me consolidate muscle memory for the two applications I most use. We have a nice little community on G+ as well: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/106737437567911832239 https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/10673743756791183223...

suprjami 12y ago

What a strange keyset. It looks like part Emacs, part Vim, and part whatever the author thought was a good idea at the time. Some are quite intuitive (s to save link) and some are like wat (slash to view source). As someone who really tried both Vimperator and Pentadactyl but eventually gave up and went back to mouse, this piques my interest.

JetSpiegel 12y ago
slash to view source is what lynx uses.
- hollerith 12y ago
  Not true. In Lynx, backslash views the source; slash is search, very much like it works in vi.
  - JetSpiegel 12y ago
    Ugh, that's right, my bad.

quarterto 12y ago

Name feels a little too close Konqueror to me. It's odd, nothing about this browser suggests an association with conkers, yet they've chosen this name which is very similar to an existing browser.

Danieru 12y ago
I aggree. Konqueror is no niche browse, it's the grandfather of half the mainline browsers.
- quarterto 12y ago
  I'd say more. 90% of mobile browsers are WebKit/Blink-based.
  - tudborg 12y ago
    And WebKit is based on? And Blink is based on?
    - laumars 12y ago
      That was his point. You might have missed the first sentence in his post which said "I'd say more." He was saying the 50% estimate was too conservative.
      - tudborg 12y ago
        Damn. i failed :(
- nailer 12y ago
  +1 I doubt it would cause confusion, but it's nice to be respectful to existing OSS projects and anyone that makes web browsers should have a lot of respect for Konquerer.
  - smeyer 12y ago
    Just now, I was confused. I remembered there were two browsers with roughly the same name, and when I saw the title I had to think about which was which.
dyadic 12y ago
Yes, when I would tell people I used Conkeror they'd always reply with, "Ah yes, I know Konqueror". That was only really IRL conversations, with text based mediums I don't think I had any confusions.

fellytone84 12y ago

I consider Mooz's Keysnail Firefox add-on to be the most impressive keyboard oriented browsing tool. It's endlessly configurable, dotfiles in javascript--really nice to work with. For Chrome, the Vimium extension is very good, but recently I've been having a lot of fun with a similar, more configurable alternative called chromium-vim. Keysnail: https://github.com/mooz/keysnail/wiki https://github.com/mooz/keysnail/wiki Vimium: http://vimium.github.io/ http://vimium.github.io/ chromium-vim: https://github.com/1995eaton/chromium-vim https://github.com/1995eaton/chromium-vim

arh68 12y ago
Only because you didn't mention it: Vimperator [1]. It's what I used to use. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimperator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimperator
- sasvari 12y ago
  pentadactyl [0] is also noteworthy. [0] http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/ http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/
objectified 12y ago
I use VimFx in Firefox as an alternative to Chrome's Vimium, it works quite well for me.
hobofan 12y ago
I tried multiple extension for chrome, but none of them felt really satisfying. All of them have to replicate the omnibox and don't work on special tabs (Downloads, New Tab, etc) I know that it isn't the extensions fault, but it compromises the usability too much for them to be viable.

drstrangevibes 12y ago

tldr; git clone git://repo.or.cz/conkeror.git && firefox -app ./conkeror/application.ini

buster 12y ago

Unfortunately no screenshots and i don't like the default key bindings. I have been using dwb ( http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/ http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/ ) for a while now and it's great! (Apart from some glitches on a few websites)

sasvari 12y ago

for those interested in a keyboard oriented webbrowser, check out uzbl [0] as well. [0] http://www.uzbl.org/ http://www.uzbl.org/

dyadic 12y ago

I was a dedicated conkeror user until ~4 years ago and loved it. The webjumps were a pleasure to use, the Google I'm feeling lucky jump was a particular favorite. Having everything scriptable and being able to add my own specific functionality had great potential, I dug a bit but never really used the full power that I'm sure was available. I started using conkeror after a shoulder injury that was being aggravated by mouse use, it was not particularly pleasant at the time but left me much more mouse-independent after I'd fully recovered. I eventually left Conkeror because of a few hassles, I remember trying to set it as the default browser was not very simple, and just trying to get it (and XUL) installed and running would sometimes fail. This is a nice reminder though, I feel tempted to track down my old .conkerorrc and give it another roll.

gosu 12y ago

I'm a very happy user. It's pretty well designed, and extensible in javascript. It's nice having EVERYTHING about the browser at your fingertips in fully customizable way, not just the the link-following mechanism. I use lots of vim hotkeys, just like I do in emacs. Conkeror has sometimes struggled to keep up with xulrunner development, and there are sometimes bugs.

jamespo 12y ago

More than this what I would really like is a console mode browser that supports javascript

rgrau 12y ago

Combining emacs' org-protocol and conkeror, when I'm on a github repo, I can easily type 'm-x clone-repo' in my browser, and make it send to emacs the url, and run any elisp function to clone the repo in my ~/projects directory. Same for creating branches with standarized names when I'm on an issue page. These kind of things make my daily browsing life easier. Here's a more detailed explanation: http://puntoblogspot.blogspot.com.es/2013/06/well-after-month-of-no-activity-in-this.html http://puntoblogspot.blogspot.com.es/2013/06/well-after-mont...

hardwaresofton 12y ago

Some pictures on the front page would have been nice...

sevengraff 12y ago

I'm disappointed that I can't C-x 3 to have web pages side-by-side, but I really, really like being able to switch between tabs with C-x b. I think I'll be giving this some time.