In the face of recent changes in Firefox some anons were asking for a Sup Forums's perfect web browser, we have collected here the most wanted and plan on continuing with the creation.
>Current TODO TODO 1. Browse the elinks2 source code (you can use Ctags or GNU GLOBAL for tagging functions and files). 2. Expose API and give (scripting) access to just about everything. 3. Put every accessed interface in a scriptable file. 4. Give control over the DOM, use folders for each site to be manually edited (use a hierarchical structure to cover subsites). 5. Implement a link grabber for every link available to be parsed by the scripting interface.
links2 is closer to the objective, but I give you it looks good in the framebuffer
Kayden Fisher
Firefox is already a good browser even at vanilla state.
If you want a tinfoil get Tor and that's it.
Your project will fail.
Brody Walker
4U
Asher Lopez
>GNU nigger license That's pretty low of you, user.
Christopher Cooper
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Hunter Carter
Better than MPL cuck license :^)
Grayson Thomas
Netrunner is a card game
Jack Cook
Any license is better than leftist garbage.
Jackson Cook
Netrunner is a name of a Linux distro idiot
Juan Watson
And a distro. We need an animal and we'll be on pair with Gentoo (animal and file manager of the same name).
Lincoln Wood
Will this and Tox be bundled into CloverOS?
Leo Torres
the name literally doesn't matter. if someone tells him to change the name he can just filter it out of the source code with something else
Dylan Butler
I just really want netsurf to win the future browser wars. We'd have to change things around in the rendering engine though, because of the DOM.
Luis Powell
Don't listen to them, name is fine.
Carter Peterson
>development team consisting of artists and "idea guys"
Gee, I wonder what will go wrong.
Austin Reyes
Did someone say "future wars"
Tyler Brooks
You been browsing the source code I see, maybe is a good idea to post here what we find.
Charles Green
Is there a logo yet?
Xavier Brown
>>>benisgrow.io
Anthony Kelly
Yes, see
Adrian Flores
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Asher Parker
I made a patch to add javascript cookies, the wrapper to c functions from javascript is incredibly nice to work with. Basically, the current issues with netsurf are: - Lack of standards support(the obvious) - Lack of people working on features(they all work on bug fixing or keeping support with platforms like RISC OS) And the big one - The rendering engine can't handle DOM updates. Fixing the third would be a MASSIVE step towards getting a fully standards compliant browser, and would probably be enough of a leap to get the devs working on features again.
>forking links why not fork midori or qutebrowser and make it something usable?
Colton Sanders
So are we going to fix netsurf?
Kayden Wright
I find that logo racist and offensive.
Gabriel Hill
Good
Adrian Martinez
>Firefox is already a good browser even at vanilla state. TOP FUCKING KEK
Sebastian Murphy
It wasn't inactive in the first place, but most of it was on bug fixes, but it looks like things are speeding up(the cookie fixes were made in April) so I guess they are starting the work on the layouting update, cool.
Sebastian Mitchell
Why not just finish up netsurf?
Jackson Torres
Not for you it isn't. No one will use your browser when I tweet about it.
John Howard
no, links2
Carter Anderson
who else here thinks the biggest problem with all other web browsers is that """people""" are allowed to use them without swearing allegiance to the glorious social movement that is anti-gay/trans white supremacism?
Xavier Jones
Fuck off.
I want this to succeed. Please don't let me down Sup Forums
I wish I could help but anything I do I know you niggers could do better.
Caleb Sullivan
Or I made them in January. Damn. bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2519 The patches haven't gone to master yet, due to a better way to use urldb_set_cookie having not been developed yet, but the patch mostly works as-is.
Anthony Flores
They need javascript support, I guess you could go for that, but a couple threads back we were talking on some features missing from netsurf so we probably stay with links2.
Nothing is stopping from helping netsurf in the meantime.
Nolan Green
When does 1.0 release?
Joseph Ross
>elinks2 *links2
Carson Anderson
>2017 >Sup Forums creates one of the two most popular nyaa replacements >cloveros is released >now this what a year
Nolan Collins
10/10 we need a good browser, make a selfhosted easy to use bookmark sync and I am in also do you plan to get GTK support for it?
Oliver Davis
>also do you plan to get GTK support for it? It's framebuffer. If you want to use it while xorg is enabled you just run it in a terminal.
Isaac Baker
Like what features? I'm interested.
Jack Nguyen
Netsurf already has a Gtk backend.
Aaron Foster
>in the face of firefox add in chrome op
you are just slinging mud otherwise
Parker Mitchell
B-but we are not in lifehack headlines like reddit with some pointless shit.
Zachary Rivera
Chrome's problems are fundamental to its nature of being a botnet. That hasn't changed recently.
Brody Diaz
os shit did read clearly, thanks for enlighten my
Dylan Miller
are we living in a golden age?
Jace Ward
>elinks
what happened? I thought we were working on links2?
dropped.
James Peterson
>Sup Forums manages to BTFO chrome and puts firefox out of business what a year this has been
Jose Walker
TLS and javascript support are the only ones I remember
Samuel Evans
it should be stated as such on the programs github
chrome has messed up just as bad if not worse
Robert Nelson
Big scary twatter man Fuck you and fuck twitter
Benjamin Thomas
Yes is links2, is just a misspelling
Charles White
Fuck you you racist piece of shit. No one will ever use your racist browser.
Dominic Perez
Yes, links2. It has the most features that are being requested.
Blake Howard
How about contributing to make an existing product decent instead?
Pic very related: It's you. Even if you think you're different you're not. Stop repeating the same mistake sheep.
Ethan Stewart
I'm pretty sure TLS is supported, and I've actually worked on javascript functions for netsurf.
Connor Hill
Enjoy your botnet
Liam Gray
>Muh feels and political correctness Go take your racism-baiting to pol, see how they feel about it. They may even care less than we do here.
Luke Lee
Good. Keep the Normies away
Josiah Williams
Is anyone here really a programmer? This has gone on for not even a full week and im disapointed as fuck.
You guys got my hopes up majorly.
>You will never have a frame-buffer CLI console browser, that is minimal and secure..
Levi Wilson
>How about contributing to make an existing product decent instead? There are exactly two Free browser engines worth a damn right now: Gecko and Blink. Both of them require running practically the entire browser (Firefox and Chrome respectively) to work. This leaves users at the mercy of these other browsers' upstream developers and doesn't provide a good use case for choosing another browser if it has the same rendering engine anyway. A third path is required.
John Martin
Racists should just kill themselves t.b.h
Jacob Ross
Fuck off with your shitty bait
Kevin Foster
Netsurf most definitely has tls support.
Julian Bailey
haha thanks for ther (You)s nigger!
Jayden King
Is that also true for the new Mozilla's engine built with Rust?
Jacob Myers
>written in C Slow, insecure, unmaintainable. No, thanks. Should've picked Rust.
Dominic Clark
>no work has been done sinse initial commit
Vaporware confirmed.
Tyler Baker
Servo, when it's done, should be cleanly embeddable again. Of course so was Gecko, at first...
Jayden Hall
>stop having fun no, this is Sup Forums, what did you expect. The most complex thing I've ever done was fizzbuzz. But I figure I'll have to move on to bigger projects at some point, might as well see what I can do with this
Bentley Cox
Great, take your crying to /pol faggot.
Andrew Butler
>scripting With what? Scheme? dlopen? Why not make the whole browser in scheme directly?
John King
links2 already had support for java though and it would be far easier to implement
also links2 works perfectly with wget (built around it) so you can offload downloads into a jailed zone and just pipe all programs into it like mpv urxvt fbi mc (or ranger?) obv they would all be optional
Caleb Murphy
no socks5 though ;-;
Levi Cooper
Then give links2 tls support, it's a smaller code base.
Daniel Lewis
>insecure as much as most languages are you actually suggesting to write the browser in idris?
Brayden Jones
Fair enough, Would rather see Blink maintained and a web browser built around it, rather than seeing another project fail, but well, good luck and hope you guys make something.
Jayden Russell
I can't even fizzbuzz honestly but I can provide inspiration and direction?
Hunter Watson
I'm not exactly sure about what you mean by using pipes with links2(yes I know what unix pipes are), but what's links's js support like?
Robert Stewart
links2 already works with shell scripting
use bash/zsh/fsh ect
you can bind programs via bash within the gui or direcly from the CLI
Jacob Morgan
There are other Blink browsers like Qutebrowser and Otter, but they're not really ready yet. You can contribute to one if you want.
Leo Morgan
who is this gnu/girl
Jacob Williams
>with shell scripting Only shell scripting? Most programs who claim to work only with shell scripting (like init) actually work with any valid executable file.
Anthony Collins
shell piping | you its basically a symbolic link between a action
>click on .txt it opens nano
>click on .mp4 it executes /usr/bin/mpv for example
its offloading to keep its own memory usage low and to increase security
also we can replace the programs for more features like VLC instead of mpv (but youd need xorg obv)
the idea is links2 is just a minimal core and you use other packages or programs to provide assistance
you could have a wget and midnight commander interface within links2 for example
aka the unix way instead of like where chrome has its DL manager and video player all in one
Leo Hernandez
well yeah it has capabilities but thats beyond the majority of users and also you must have some caution for security
Jeremiah Hernandez
I wish I knew... Gnu/Waifu material.
Nathaniel Butler
Oh! I imagine you could do the same thing with modifications to netsurf, but also, with things like video controlled with javascript, I imagine you'd need to do some work there? (i'm sorry, netsurf holds this weird autistic place in my heart for this kind of stuff, but yeah, this stuff being already implemented is probably an advantage here(I still want to use netsurf though : \))
Ian Lopez
>security bash is the worst selection if you care about security.
Wyatt Ramirez
is this possible to find or recreate irl?
William Young
not if its running as a predetermined group and user that has no priv
we can have it autoinstall with a script to create those
it would be far safer to have shell scripts that are audited before they get into the repo or we have predefined restrictions with a API
safer than binary executables atleast lol
Liam Smith
I must find her anons! AID ME!
Adam Price
fuck off she's mine
Hudson Wood
If a racist browser respects mah freedums, I'm in
Robert Gray
Using scripting is a good idea, you can make a lot of scripts to replace addons. Imagine the possibilities!