http://www.osnews.com/story/26647/The_uzbl_web_interface_tools Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 22 May 2013 22:27:14 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?546726 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546726 Cool idea, nice effort, philosophically kind of reminds me of qmail and all the fun and "fun" I've had with it over the years.

One question, please, where do people take these names from? I mean, Uzbl? Who's supposed to pronounce that? ;-)

Happy New Year! Mon, 31 Dec 2012 12:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pysiak) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?546727 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546727 It's pronounced as 'usable' ?

Anyway, somehow i did not find it that usable ( pun intended ), needing a fast browser for my RaspberryPi I tested them all: uzbl, arora, surf, netsurf (no javascript meh), midori, chrome/ium, xxxterm (soon to be renamed xombrero) and I settled in with dwb ( http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/ ) although xxxterm is pretty good too.

And since talking about alternatives ( mainly vi-like keyboard driven ones), on my Pi I'm using i3 ( www.i3wm.org ) for window management, zathura ( http://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/ ) for PDF/PS/DjVU viewing and sxiv ( https://github.com/muennich/sxiv ) as an image viewer. These are all git/hg compiled since they're updated pretty often. The zathura creators also work on another lightweight WebKit based browser jumanji ( http://pwmt.org/projects/jumanji/ )Edited 2012-12-31 12:59 UTC Mon, 31 Dec 2012 12:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Licaon_Kter) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?546758 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546758 I also second dwb. I have used it for some time and it looks promising. I have used Uzbl browser too and I *love* it. Creating scripts to work nicely with it (in any language) is so easy it's not even funny. But uzbl-tabbed is not so great at keeping stuff tabbed.

I've been meaning to try i3wm which has a tabbed mode which I assume should work great with uzbl. Maybe someone has already tried that?

Anyway, I absolutely love Uzbl. Although I'm too attached to my Firefox addons right now Edited 2013-01-01 07:22 UTC Tue, 01 Jan 2013 07:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fengshaun) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?546791 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546791 dwb has tabs by default and not as a wrapper

but yeah, i3 has a tabbed mode if that strikes your fancy Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Licaon_Kter) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?546826 http://www.osnews.com/thread?546826 I settled on xombrero/xxxterm myself (I'm a big fan of conformal projects). It does have issues (mostly libsoup related) but seems to fit into my usage patterns/idiosyncrasies rather well, though dwb and jumanji are both pretty good browsers in their own right.

Uzbl's great as well. Probably the first "lightweight" browser I experimented (not counting the cli variants) with. Was a bit tedious at first, having to write a bunch of scripts and tweaking configs, but it put me in good steed for all the ones that I tried after.

I still pronounce it "oooze-buhl" in my head, even though I know it's supposed to be "useable". Think it just sounds cooler that way. =PEdited 2013-01-02 12:35 UTC Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gan17) Comments