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Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by aruggirello »

nextos wrote: post #14
Curiositry wrote: post #5

A few years ago I doggedly tried to switch to Nyxt for everyday use. I really liked the concept, but at the time, it was too buggy, and constantly crashed on me. I'm going give it another shot.

Nyxt is very promising, and I hope it gains momentum. The obvious advantage of Nyxt is programmability and keyboard-driven workflows. However, I use old hardware, and it's a bit slow and laggy. Chromium behaves the same way, so I imagine this is due to WebKit and Blink being significantly heavier than Gecko. Firefox is really snappy on old hardware, at least when running Linux, and uses a modest amount of memory.

Firefox with ViolentMonkey and uBlock Origin is my go to solution. I keep hundreds of tabs open, Chrome|ium is simply a memory hog.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by nextos »

aruggirello wrote: post #211
nextos wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nyxt is very promising, and I hope it gains momentum. The obvious advantage of Nyxt is programmability and keyboard-driven workflows. However, I use old hardware, and it's a bit slow and laggy. Chromium behaves the same way, so I imagine this is due to WebKit and Blink being significantly heavier than Gecko. Firefox is really snappy on old hardware, at least when running Linux, and uses a modest amount of memory.

Firefox with ViolentMonkey and uBlock Origin is my go to solution. I keep hundreds of tabs open, Chrome|ium is simply a memory hog.

I used Greasemonkey for some time. What do you find ViolentMonkey useful for these days?

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by anthk »

ThinkBeat wrote: post #202

I have been interested in this project for a while now. That somebody has now added to the documentation: "Nyxt is a browser with deeply integrated AI" Made me entirely lose interest. It sounds like it could be a privay problem I did however dig deep to figure out what their EULA and whatnotstates. (or the code)

Classical AI, not the bullshit parroter.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by medo-bear »

sourcepluck wrote: post #201
sourcepluck wrote: post #187

When are we getting a web engine written in SBCL? :) or how hard would it be, I wonder... One thing about Nyxt that's great is this idea of trying to push towards being renderer-agnostic. I'm not sure how achievable that is in reality, but when you hear the idea you think oh yeah, surely that would make sense if we want to have good things in the world. To all the people saying "I like my mouse! Why are these keyboar…

https://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/inspiration.html That's linked to from the ratpoison page, I enjoyed reading it a few years ago, it hasn't gotten any less funny in the meantime. Why did I ever leave ratpoison...

gold. thank you for this. as regards ratpoison, have you looked at stumpwm?

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by bitvoid »

emrah wrote: post #216

So "hacker" is someone who is allergic to using a mouse. We've come a long way from what it used to mean..

> Nyxt differs fundamentally in its philosophy- rather than exposing a set of parameters for customization, Nyxt allows you to customize all functionality. Every single class, method, and function is overwritable and reconfigurable. You'll find that you are able to engineer Nyxt's behavior to suit almost any workflow.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by bitvoid »

falqun wrote: post #85

I don't know, I feel like some of the more pressing features of this browser are already provided with add-ons such as Vimium. And I would really like to see this on a Firefox back-end / compatible with the likes of uBlock origin. I don't want to have another chrome derivative that has a fancy new UI to boast.

> I don't want to have another chrome derivative that has a fancy new UI to boast.

It uses WebKitGTK, not Chrome.

As for why not vimium?

https://nyxt-browser.com/article/nyxt-versus-plugins.org

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by sourcepluck »

emrah wrote: post #216

So "hacker" is someone who is allergic to using a mouse. We've come a long way from what it used to mean..

TL;DR There's simply no grounds for rat-molesters to feel so triggered.

No-one is saying "hacker" means someone who is allergic to mouses, it's not what's being said whatsoever. The Nyxt page there unfortunately leans a bit too heavily on the "keyboard" bit, but the fact that that has taken off as a hot take here in this HN discussion is nonetheless an inaccurate reading of the project.

The point being made is that it's a browser for people who want to configure a browser in Common Lisp, i.e., what's sometimes called "power users" (I don't love that term, personally). It's fully FOSS, and the expected audience is people who know their way around terminals, IDEs, Emacs, vim, and so on.

These types of people often learn the available shortcuts in order to get around faster. Not always. However, programmers and tinkerers who like keyboard shortcuts are first-class citizens in Nyxt, is the point. Vim and Emacs keybindings are available out of the box.

However, CUA bindings and mouse-manipulation are also both fully supported. So, there's no issue.

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