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Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by wahnfrieden »

comfypotato wrote: post #26
jug wrote: post #17

Hmm, not sure it's for me (a bit too much hacker) but I'd definitely like a highly customizable, module based browser with a pure shell by default. Something like Visual Studio Code but with less cruft from the get go. I've never thought about it until I saw this! Now I'm really irked about there not being a solid, mature browser based on extensibility. Where the base is basically an address bar and history awareness…

Contemplating my navel, I propose that it didn’t happen because the purpose of an editor and browser are so different. (Realistically the driving factor is that an editor is much more useful for making money.)

I’m building it

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by replwoacause »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #31
comfypotato wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Contemplating my navel, I propose that it didn’t happen because the purpose of an editor and browser are so different. (Realistically the driving factor is that an editor is much more useful for making money.)

I’m building it

As in… you’ve been building it, or you just started building it because of this comment?

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by graderjs »

jug wrote: post #17

Hmm, not sure it's for me (a bit too much hacker) but I'd definitely like a highly customizable, module based browser with a pure shell by default. Something like Visual Studio Code but with less cruft from the get go. I've never thought about it until I saw this! Now I'm really irked about there not being a solid, mature browser based on extensibility. Where the base is basically an address bar and history awareness…

I'm building something similar: WebDriver protocol not WebView tag, more extensible, written in JavaScript, web tech. Get in touch (cris@dosyago.com) if you want to contribute! or check out the project: https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserBoxPro / https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserBOx

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#35

Post by Zetice »

qwertox wrote: post #29

Does it do regex search? I so often need to do a foo|bar in a page. Back in the days, before Firefox switched to the Google Chrome model of extensions, there used to be a really nice advanced search addon. Nicely integrated into the UI.

I think the whole point is you can add it!

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by bee_rider »

aaron695 wrote: post #20

It's not what I expected from their webpage, I think their Github explains it better - Nyxt [nýkst] is a keyboard-driven web browser designed for power users. Inspired by Emacs and Vim, it has familiar keybindings (Emacs, vi, CUA), and is infinitely extensible in Lisp. It's not for the OSINT community, is how I'd read it.

Open source intelligence? What’s the link, are you speculating that it might be insecure or something?

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by joshspankit »

qwertox wrote: post #29

Does it do regex search? I so often need to do a foo|bar in a page. Back in the days, before Firefox switched to the Google Chrome model of extensions, there used to be a really nice advanced search addon. Nicely integrated into the UI.

Another one I constantly wish for: search for numbers between a range

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by bee_rider »

I’ve always assumed the major browsers had all sorts of security stuff going on behind the scenes, and using a small alternative like this (or suckless surf) was just asking for trouble. But, I don’t have any real knowledge about security stuff.

How misinformed is my take? Are these kinds of browsers OK? I’d like something light, if possible.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by hattmall »

jug wrote: post #17

Hmm, not sure it's for me (a bit too much hacker) but I'd definitely like a highly customizable, module based browser with a pure shell by default. Something like Visual Studio Code but with less cruft from the get go. I've never thought about it until I saw this! Now I'm really irked about there not being a solid, mature browser based on extensibility. Where the base is basically an address bar and history awareness…

I use to build my own like this with the VB web browser control. I had tons of automation built in for a lot of tasks but it becomes too much to keep up with. I've looked into headless chrome but it's not as cool as working in the Visual Studio and being able to pause and just develop on the fly.

Honestly it was incredibly cool but websites just get more and more complicated. From like 2004 to maybe 2014-2016 it was great. Somewhere after that, I'm not sure, something changed, maybe me, but it just became too much.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by leephillips »

kovac wrote: post #34

This looks really good, will be trying it out. Looks like they wrote their own rendering code as well? Or are they using some other rendering engine?

WebKit and Webengine. And the versions of these renderers that this and similar projects like qutebrowser use are just too full of bugs to be a main browser. That’s why I don’t use them, although I would really love to.
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