Simple keyboard based web browser. No tabs.
Based on webkit2gtk and gtk3.
No xlibs dependency — works on sway, weston etc.
Look also at manual ( man surfer).
For videos install gstreamer packages.
config.h - customize keys, dirs and some other settings before compile.
It can also launch mpv( with help of youtube-dl on supported sites) on links, but remember to pkill -9 mpv if it hogs your cpu, used on non supported sites.
Also possible to use other binaries/scripts - location of dirctory of that settable in config.h
Beside it can toggle JS and History. Ephemeral (priv mode) on links. You can also set css for sites in .surfer/tablecss.txt file.
Search or translate for selected text, settable in config.h
For adblock:
Install https://github.com/jun7/wyebadblock Then sudo ln -s /usr/lib/wyebrowser/adblock.so /usr/lib/surfer
Or block through /etc/hosts
Or save to .surfer/adblock.json file (ie from https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist_min_content_blocker.json )
For JS scripts:
Js scripts (i.e. from greasefork site) place in .local/share/surfer/
name them in following way: -i.e. for run scripts on www.youtube.com name script file identically. -if you want script to run on all sites, name it universal.js
git clone https://github.com/nihilowy/surfer.git
cd surfer
make && sudo make install
Depends on webkit2gtk, gtk3 development files (install it on your distro)
Ctrl + click link — open link in new window
Ctrl + n — new window
Ctrl + b — go back
Ctrl + f — go forward
Ctrl + q — quit
Esc — stop loading
Ctrl + h — home (bookmarks list)
Ctrl + shift + b — bookmark site (to remove just edit file with
links: bookmarks in your SURFER_DIR dir)
Ctrl + o — toggle url bar
Ctrl + / — find word
Ctrl + r — reload page
Ctrl + = — zoom in
Ctrl + - — zoom out
Down Arrow — scroll down
Up arrow — scroll up
Ctrl + w — page up
Ctrl + s — page down
Ctrl + Shift + i — web inspector (page source)
Ctrl + Shift + s — toggle user style black theme
(/usr/share/surfer/black.css)
Ctrl + Shift + h — show history if enabled
F11 — toggle fullscreen
Edit config.h to change hotkeys and SURFER_DIR, SURFER_DOWNLOADS, and other settings