Luakit – fast, extensible, and customizable web browser

no perf issues ? laggy UX or else ?

Qutebrowser is nice, but it uses the same webengine (QtWebengine) that chrome uses. This is a concern for some

I used it for a while. It's fantastic browser. Unfortunately modern web is so broken that using browser without real adblocker (uBlock) is basically impossible so I had to switch to Firefox.

In my opinion what both luakit and qutebrowser need to grow or at least stay somewhat healthy is to get way easier to install the latest version. Qutebrowser the author is planning on getting pyinstaller working. For luakit I tried to get flatpak working but had issues with a dependency lfs. I'm hoping they can remove it since it's barely used at all and then the flatpak will just be ready.

Sometime back I was looking for alternative browsers and came across your comment (dated 2015)[0]:

> The code itself works very well. Mason, founder of Luakit and most generous contributor, got hit by a bus so new maintainership roles have yet to get filled by existing and new users and developers. All current development takes place outside of "central" repo, and it needs organizing and compiling. Once this takes place, development and merge requests can continue full course.

I actually saved the comment as a placeholder in ZIM[1] - in a section where I keep programs to try in the future. You seem to keep up with the project pretty well and it also looks like the project itself has been moving forward. Going to give it a try this time ("This project could have immense value to the web." - I agree).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10418268

[1] https://zim-wiki.org/

Well qutebrowser already has a built in host-based adblocker. There are also a number of password manager scripts available.

Try looking at the settings page to see if it could be disabled. There are settings relating to video playback and hardware acceleration. There was a bug in hardware acceleration that caused the browse to use a lot of cpu, maybe it has been fixed at this point.

> One was making your own luakit:// pages would you min expanding or leaving a link on that

uzbl seems to be more dead.

I quite liked uzbl when it was being more actively developed, seemed like a very promising project. Unfortunately development stalled some time ago and it doesn't seem like it's going to start again any time soon. So I migrated to luakit. Luakit and uzbl are pretty much on par with each other feature wise and both are pretty scriptable.

Looks like the latest release was Nov 2018.

Are there other embedable, modern, multi-platform and open-source browser engines besides webkit?

I'm looking forward to the day when we will be able to use servo instead, but we're not there yet.

Page is indeed outdated. Check the project GitHub repo, last release (e.g. git tag) was on Nov 2018, version 2.1.

Since then just the “develop” branch has received new code, but GitHub Insights shows stable activity on the last month.

I’m not involved in the project, they’re probably low on contributors and taking things slow. The documentation does point to compiling from code, so you should be good by using the develop branch and even bumping some dependencies if concerned with security issues and etc

What are you looking to do that can't be done with local chrome/firefox extensions?

Muon, but it’s abandoned now

There are electron browsers like beaker browser. Not really customizable or scriptable though

Some dependencies have the package "luarocks-5.1" as a build dependency, and that package has been removed. Apparently, it's been replaced by "luarocks", so you can install in Archlinux by fixing these dependencies (tested on my own system):

  set -e # halts if there's an error in the following
  # move to a directory for building modified dependencies
  mkdir -p build
  cd build
  for aurpkg in lua51-{say,luacheck,luassert}; do
    # downloads the aur-package building script and files
    cower -d "$aurpkg"
    (
      cd "$aurpkg"
      # replace dependency
      sed -ri 's/luarocks-?5\.1/luarocks/' PKGBUILD
      # install dependencies, build package, and install
      makepkg -si
    )
  done
  # install luakit-git from aur
  pacaur -y luakit-git

Of course, these things being in the AUR, it's preferable if one gives the PKGBUILDs a read before deciding to build and install each of them, but if you've judged it's OK, you can just run the above.

If luakit is really on an upswing, maybe the package will be moved back to one of the official repos.

You can extend it using lua.

Make and distribute an installable app. This project is to Lua what Electron is to Javascript.

One thing I love about luakit is the window is rendered no-frills -- just the content. I use openbox with undecorated windows, and luakit is the only web browser that lets me just have a rectangular space in my display containing web content, resizable and scalable to any dimensions I want. The vim-like interface for me is just a bonus.

Keep using it after the signing certificate expires.

(Sorry, could not resist...)

Well, maybe the Earth is just smiling. Maybe, it's laying down and having a nice dream. :)

the moon changes shape, you can see with your own eyes. you're probably a round earther :D

Maybe it's something at the interface between the lower and upper mantle ;)

Annoyed observation: the moon is slightly off-centre. The curve of the moon's left side and the inside curve of the Earth match, but it looks displeasingly off.

Read the very first paragraph of the page linked above.