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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 n8henrie »

Wasn't this just posted last week? And recently before that as well?

I remember checking it out, being disappointed about its not-great availability for MacOS, and thinking that I should learn lisp.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#53

Post by mikrl »

n8henrie wrote: post #52

Wasn't this just posted last week? And recently before that as well? I remember checking it out, being disappointed about its not-great availability for MacOS, and thinking that I should learn lisp.

> thinking that I should learn lisp

There was a programming language taxonomy thread posted a few weeks ago and I seriously think if you want to ‘git gud’ you should dabble in all of the families.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813496

When you see how to implement a REPL in Lisp, it will blow your mind.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#54

Post by noisy_boy »

Since we are on the topic of hackers browsers, does anyone know if Firefox can be made to split pane (both for seeing the same page side by side and also doing it for two different pages)? Having done that with file browsers and IDEs, I wonder how come it wasn't a main feature? Nobody needed to compare pages side by side?

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#55

Post by slondr »

n8henrie wrote: post #52

Wasn't this just posted last week? And recently before that as well? I remember checking it out, being disappointed about its not-great availability for MacOS, and thinking that I should learn lisp.

> Wasn't this just posted last week? And recently before that as well?

Yes. Nyxt just had a major 3.0.0 release, and we had a thread about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35869378

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#56

Post by tenebrisalietum »

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…

There was uzbl.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#57

Post by elashri »

noisy_boy wrote: post #54

Since we are on the topic of hackers browsers, does anyone know if Firefox can be made to split pane (both for seeing the same page side by side and also doing it for two different pages)? Having done that with file browsers and IDEs, I wonder how come it wasn't a main feature? Nobody needed to compare pages side by side?

Actually the had official extension[1] that did that in the past but I don't remember and can't find why it is no longer available.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/uncategorized/its-a-new-firefox-...

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#58

Post by ivanjermakov »

joshspankit wrote: post #37
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

You can do that with vimium: https://github.com/philc/vimium/issues/367#issuecomment-3535...

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#59

Post by lost_tourist »

yokem55 wrote: post #19
rochak wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A dealbreaker as it doesn't suppport ublock origin extension which is essential to browsing the web these days.

Qutebrowser can use the same adblock filters that ublock uses.

Not really as customizable though, ublock has useful features like build your own filter and pick/create to block annoying webpage widgets. I do wonder if the python based aspects of qutebrowser might give a large surface to fork it and make this type of "hacker's browser" out of it though.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

#60

Post by kovac »

leephillips wrote: post #40
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.

Thanks for the information. Yes, this is why I stopped using qutebrowser too.
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