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Conkeror – Keyboard-oriented, customizable, extensible web browser

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Name feels a little too close Konqueror to me. It's odd, nothing about this browser suggests an association with conkers, yet they've chosen this name which is very similar to an existing browser.

I aggree. Konqueror is no niche browse, it's the grandfather of half the mainline browsers.

I'd say more. 90% of mobile browsers are WebKit/Blink-based.

And WebKit is based on? And Blink is based on?

That was his point. You might have missed the first sentence in his post which said "I'd say more."

He was saying the 50% estimate was too conservative.

Damn. i failed :(

+1 I doubt it would cause confusion, but it's nice to be respectful to existing OSS projects and anyone that makes web browsers should have a lot of respect for Konquerer.

Just now, I was confused. I remembered there were two browsers with roughly the same name, and when I saw the title I had to think about which was which.

Yes, when I would tell people I used Conkeror they'd always reply with, "Ah yes, I know Konqueror". That was only really IRL conversations, with text based mediums I don't think I had any confusions.

The first time I saw it mentioned, I thought it was just a weird misspelling.

To be fair, this project has been using its current name for at least five years, so now is probably not the time to raise objections.

You can't raise an objection to a project you never knew about, can you? It's a legitimate point, and the name is certainly close to Konqueror.

Don't know if you are being sarcastic... But "conqueror" may be a reference to Age of Discovery/Conquest [1], similar to "navigator" or "explorer".

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Discovery

  due to the fact that "Conkeror" is a homonym with the name of the web
  browser "Konqueror", the full name of the browser in spoken English is
  "Conkeror (with a C)"

I consider Mooz's Keysnail Firefox add-on to be the most impressive keyboard oriented browsing tool. It's endlessly configurable, dotfiles in javascript--really nice to work with.

For Chrome, the Vimium extension is very good, but recently I've been having a lot of fun with a similar, more configurable alternative called chromium-vim.

Keysnail: https://github.com/mooz/keysnail/wiki Vimium: http://vimium.github.io/ chromium-vim: https://github.com/1995eaton/chromium-vim

Only because you didn't mention it: Vimperator [1]. It's what I used to use.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimperator

pentadactyl [0] is also noteworthy.

[0] http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/

I use VimFx in Firefox as an alternative to Chrome's Vimium, it works quite well for me.

I tried multiple extension for chrome, but none of them felt really satisfying. All of them have to replicate the omnibox and don't work on special tabs (Downloads, New Tab, etc)

I know that it isn't the extensions fault, but it compromises the usability too much for them to be viable.

What a strange keyset. It looks like part Emacs, part Vim, and part whatever the author thought was a good idea at the time. Some are quite intuitive (s to save link) and some are like wat (slash to view source).

As someone who really tried both Vimperator and Pentadactyl but eventually gave up and went back to mouse, this piques my interest.

slash to view source is what lynx uses.

Not true. In Lynx, backslash views the source; slash is search, very much like it works in vi.

Ugh, that's right, my bad.

I'm a very happy user. It's pretty well designed, and extensible in javascript. It's nice having EVERYTHING about the browser at your fingertips in fully customizable way, not just the the link-following mechanism. I use lots of vim hotkeys, just like I do in emacs.

Conkeror has sometimes struggled to keep up with xulrunner development, and there are sometimes bugs.

I was a dedicated conkeror user until ~4 years ago and loved it. The webjumps were a pleasure to use, the Google I'm feeling lucky jump was a particular favorite. Having everything scriptable and being able to add my own specific functionality had great potential, I dug a bit but never really used the full power that I'm sure was available.

I started using conkeror after a shoulder injury that was being aggravated by mouse use, it was not particularly pleasant at the time but left me much more mouse-independent after I'd fully recovered.

I eventually left Conkeror because of a few hassles, I remember trying to set it as the default browser was not very simple, and just trying to get it (and XUL) installed and running would sometimes fail. This is a nice reminder though, I feel tempted to track down my old .conkerorrc and give it another roll.

Combining emacs' org-protocol and conkeror, when I'm on a github repo, I can easily type 'm-x clone-repo' in my browser, and make it send to emacs the url, and run any elisp function to clone the repo in my ~/projects directory.

Same for creating branches with standarized names when I'm on an issue page.

These kind of things make my daily browsing life easier. Here's a more detailed explanation: http://puntoblogspot.blogspot.com.es/2013/06/well-after-mont...

As an Emacs user, switching to Conkeror was great for me. It helped me consolidate muscle memory for the two applications I most use.

We have a nice little community on G+ as well: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/10673743756791183223...

Unfortunately no screenshots and i don't like the default key bindings. I have been using dwb ( http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/ ) for a while now and it's great! (Apart from some glitches on a few websites)

I'm disappointed that I can't C-x 3 to have web pages side-by-side, but I really, really like being able to switch between tabs with C-x b. I think I'll be giving this some time.

Some pictures on the front page would have been nice...

More than this what I would really like is a console mode browser that supports javascript

for those interested in a keyboard oriented webbrowser, check out uzbl [0] as well.

[0] http://www.uzbl.org/

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