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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Browsers
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 07:39:56PM +0000, KatolaZ wrote:
>
> 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...


Thanks. surf and tabbed look useful. It'll take a while to figure
out just how I can best use them.

Now to figure out how to bind keytrokes or menu entries. I currently
use xcfe, completely in dfault configuration. After coming as refugee
from gnome and kde, I hesitate to cuddle up with a new DE and invest
real effort into it.

Is this a kind of refugee syndrome? never feeling I'm home any more?

I guess I'm just ranting about the closing in of open software.

-- hendrik

>
> > 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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