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surf - simple webkit-based browser

surf is a simple Web browser based on WebKit/GTK+.

Features & Patches

  • homepage: Allows you to set a homepage to be loaded when you have not set a uri.
  • notifications: Adds support for HTML5 Web Notifications.

Requirements

In order to build surf you need GTK+ and Webkit/GTK+ header files. In order to use the functionality of the url-bar, also install dmenu.

Installation

Edit config.mk to match your local setup (surf is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install surf:

sudo make clean install

Running

surf [URI]

See the manpage for further options.

Running surf in tabbed

For running surf in tabbed there is a script included in the distribution, which is run like this:

surf-open.sh [URI]