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Re: Show HN: Next Browser native on Linux

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It looks like a direct competitor to Qutebrowser which uses PyQt5 + QtWebEngine: https://qutebrowser.org/ Interesting to see that Next Browser integrates Lisp with WebKitGTK+.

also qutebrowser is vim-like keybinding, and nextbrowser is emacs-like keybinding

Which only encourages the idea that Next is Qute's direct competitor.

Re: Show HN: Next Browser native on Linux

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It looks like a direct competitor to Qutebrowser which uses PyQt5 + QtWebEngine: https://qutebrowser.org/ Interesting to see that Next Browser integrates Lisp with WebKitGTK+.

Well, we are not competitors, we target different markets. Next is infinitely extensible, Qutebrowser is not. Also Qutebrowser is married to QT, Next is not. If we wanted to, we could in about 1000 lines of code make a QT port for Next that uses Blink. Take a look at the platform ports https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next/tree/master/ports and you will see that they are quite trivial to implement :)

Re: Show HN: Next Browser native on Linux

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post #9

It looks like a direct competitor to Qutebrowser which uses PyQt5 + QtWebEngine: https://qutebrowser.org/ Interesting to see that Next Browser integrates Lisp with WebKitGTK+.

also qutebrowser is vim-like keybinding, and nextbrowser is emacs-like keybinding

this is true, but one of the main co-authors is a VI/EVIL user, so we are working on VI keybindings for the next release. Still trying to work out how to best integrate them into the system, that's all :)

Re: Show HN: Next Browser native on Linux

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I remember installing this browser after one of the first releases, but lost track of it after a little while. Nice to see all the growth its had, I'll have to reinstall it!

Yes, please give it a try :D

I think we are now on our 5th rewrite. It is still very alpha, but from here on out, now that we have settled on an architecture, it should mature in stability and in feature set quite nicely!

The real hard part was getting off the ground!

Re: Show HN: Next Browser native on Linux

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No adblock is a show stopper for me, but they have a campaign on Indie Go Go with adblocking as one of the goals https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next/issues/32 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/next-browser-nix-support#...

This is correct! it is also next on our to-do list! https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next/tree/master/documents...

Re: Show HN: Next Browser native on Linux

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A lot of the focus seems to be on making the browser easily extendable which is great, but can extensions interact with/modify the contents of web pages rather than the browser itself? I am not seeing it in a quick browse through the docs, and that is kind of the main point of most browser extensions.
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