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Re: Nyxt Browser

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Post by ketamine__ »

uncletaco wrote: post #44
fctorial wrote: post #39

Nice, it comes with a nix expression too. However, I think that regular browsers like chrome/firefox are better in that they offer 99% of customizability at 1% of the effort one would have to spend to configure nyxt. There are extensions that let you inject javascript into a website. You can do a lot with that. Not to mention that mice are very well suited for browsing web. Edit: Typo

Configuring Nyxt is part of the fun. This is the same reason one might choose emacs or vim over vscode. Sure there are extensions in other software but I'm really getting a kick out of setting up Brave's ad-block server with this browser.

Brave's ad-block server?

Re: Nyxt Browser

#52

Post by rovr138 »

bbeesley wrote: post #48
danShumway wrote: post #27

Nyxt seems amazing, but it's hard for me to imagine using a browser without Ublock Origin. I understand that it doesn't really make sense for everyone to support webextensions, and it's a huge amount of extra work, but it's just a huge barrier to adoption. It's hard to trust the smaller browsers to keep me private online if there isn't something that gives me that same level of control over blocking. And there's a hu…

It makes a lot more sense to ad block system wide than to expect every bit of software you use to implement extensions to allow you to do it. There are plenty of services like AdGuard and Lockdown, they can use the same lists that ublock uses, and you protect not just your browser but your email and everything else you use. Some routers will let you do something similar, and you can add a pihole to your network if yo…

Host based lists help to a point but they are also easy to bypass.

Get everyone to add a cname or rotate the domains.

If they use the main domain and proxy the requests, you can’t block the domain without breaking the site.

That’s why there are lists that operate on selectors and the content on the pages too.

Re: Nyxt Browser

#53

Post by aeturnum »

Oh this is very exciting!

Not exactly Nyxt (which looks amazing), but that people are are starting to "emacs" the web. There's a social process whenever humans make a thing where we rumble around a lot and try different things and eventually we settle on a kinda-ok-for-now-if-I-can-make-some-adjusments thing (like how I just used written english).

I'm a little skeptical (for me) that we've arrived at a 'durable state' for the web. I think it may change a little too quickly for it to make sense (for me) to invest time into learning this particular browser but I am very excited about the trend.

Edit: I wrote this comment without even seeing that they support list but of course they do.

Re: Nyxt Browser

#54

Post by paulryanrogers »

butz wrote: post #16

Nice to see some people still trying to innovate on web browsing experience. With all mainline browsers stuck with almost identical UI, it is great to see some experimentation still going on.

Indeed. Though I'm kind of sad that mouse gestures and voice control haven't gone mainstream yet. Keeping one hand on mouse and another on keyboard with voice scrolling was a nice combo. And the lower the bar for customizability the more accessible for differently abled users.

Re: Nyxt Browser

#55

Post by readflaggedcomm »

ekianjo wrote: post #21

Looks like qutebrowser in many ways. https://qutebrowser.org/

And Qutebrowser implements ABP-style ad blocking since v2.0.0, which a lot of sibling comments are concerned about. Whereas Nyxt still only has host-based blocking, if I'm reading blocker-mode.lisp correctly.

Re: Nyxt Browser

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Post by fao_ »

So I compiled the prerelease today. There were a number of hiccups with the process but nothing big, and I managed to get it running.

On first load you have a tutorial, and a menu to select the session. There's only one session so it should default to that. There is no way to click the menus like there is in Emacs, so I have to type Default in full each load.

Running "vi-normal-mode" doesn't switch the keybindings, and it only runs on new buffers, not old ones. It would be nice to have a "global mode" feature.

Futhermore, n and N do not work for searching in vi mode, and it would be nice to have "?" bound to the help buffer, simply because half the time I can't remember what key switches to which buffer. There should also be autocomplete on tab, like doom emacs has.

All in all, it feels half-baked, in it's current state, which I guess it is. I'll be happy to use it more when it's in a better state, but I don't think it'll be replacing Firefox any time soon

Re: Nyxt Browser

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Post by Shared404 »

danShumway wrote: post #33
christophilus wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As scriptable as Nyxt looks, I imagine you could pretty easily wire it up to block a list of domains.

The problem is that UBlock Origin goes way beyond just blocking a list of domains, it's not just a Piihole. It's also doing CNAME uncloaking, request rewriting, stubbing functions in pages, it has syntax to handle CSS changes, it has rules that allow requests to only go through in certain contexts or if they're originating from certain domains. And most importantly, there's a giant community of people basically stand…

I would however be interested in Mozilla folding UBO into Firefox officially though.

Sadly, I doubt that'll ever happen with the amount of funding they get from Google.

Re: Nyxt Browser

#59

Post by Shared404 »

christophilus wrote: post #30

This looks amazing. I've never used Common Lisp how common is it (heh heh)? I really enjoyed hacking around in Clojure, so I may have to pick it up. I'd love to hear from anyone who's done serious Common Lisp work. Why'd you choose Common Lisp vs any alternative?

I'm by no means used it for anything serious, but I've enjoyed "Land of Lisp: Learning to Program in Lisp" for just some light hacking around.

I was lucky enough to get it in one of the programming Humble bundles a while ago.

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