On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 01:34:50PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Browsers. What a mess.
>

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>
> Are there other Devuan-packaged lightweight browsers anyone might
> recommend? I may switch to chromium, but I doubt that it's
> lightweight.
>

I have already implicitly replied to this question before you even
answered it (in the gtk+3 thread).

If you don't mind minimal stuff (i.e., a browser that just browse the
WWW and downloads files on request), then surf+tabbed is a very good
and stable solution. Here are the links:

http://surf.suckless.org/
http://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/

The setup is extremely simple. You just "apt-get install tabbed surf"
and bind your preferred keystroke or menu entry to:

"tabbed surf -g -e"

and you are done. Well, you still need a good "man tabbed" and "man
surf" to get things done...

> And speaking of bookmarks, each browser seems to jealously hang on to
> its bookmarks, unless perhaps another browser manages to sneak in like
> a thief and import them. Is this the way browsers cement their grip
> on users? Isn't there any way of setting up bookmarks
> so that multiple browsers and other tools can use them?
>

I got pissed off of the 300 incompatible ways in which bookmarks are
stored by different browsers. I wrote a simple 20-line shell script
which copy/pastes from/to the content of the current X clipboard and
sets/gets bookmarks to/from a simple file in the form:

http://suckless.org/ | suckless.org
http://www.devuan.org | devuan website homepage
.....

with obvious meaning. The script is bound to a keystroke to search for
a bookmark (using dmenu) or launched with any "run-thing" (or a shell)
to create a new bookmark and associate tags to it. It works for
cavemen like me, but do not expect any eyecandy ;) If you think you
might like it, just shout and I will put the script somewhere.

HND

KatolaZ

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