uweb

Uweb browser: minimal suckless web browser with unlimited power

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• Powerful: any native functionality with html5 enhancement and still secure; any urls to host website; javascript and shell scripting for general processing; piping between console and GUI and more with Termux.
• Customizable: user-defined menus, (new) buttons and gestures for user agents, bookmarklets, url services, shell commands, internal functionality links and text processing etc.
• Convenient: Any AI chatbot/book (pdf/djvu)/dictionary (mdict)/txt/command line/app/webapp (web extensions) can be search engine.
• Tiny: less than 250k.
• Fast: run fast, even with thousands of user provided css/scripts/htmls.
• Efficient: less touches, one click to reach any number of search engines without repeated input; automate online services.
• URL bar command line support ("!" and .js file as command).
• Site-specific JS/CSS/HTML/preprocessing.
• Online play/preview/preprocess for downloadable resources.
• Multiple type profiles: switch any data including website logins, user configurations orthogonally.
• Supports enhanced user "hosts" file. Empty IP address to lift all server-imposed limitations.
• Website test automation scripting. crontab support (alarm clock and more).

Main features

Custom paper size PDF export and long vector screenshot, TTS, text reflow, resource sniffer, translation, reader's mode, user-defined url redirection, webdav/http backup & restore, auto next page, sending/receiving msg/file(s), site config (UA, no JS, no image, no 3rd party script/resource,active script, global scripts), http(s)/socks proxy, enabling html5 apps for local files (pdf/djvu/epub viewer, mdict dictionary lookup etc.).

• User-defined global and site-specific CSS and javascript.
• Bookmarklets (works for CSP sites and with option to auto apply to similar sites)
• AD blocking (block whole root domain trees etc.)
• Customization (define extra menus/buttons/gestures with user-defined functionalities)
• Support shell scripts, javascript for general processing, other languages (python etc.) are also supported by installing uweb compatible Termux versions.
• Serverless local sites: PWA-kind web extension (chrome .crx & firefox .xpi) support.
• Piping between console and uweb tabs.
• Resizable floating video support.

Screenshots

Ebrowser for Windows, MacOS and Linux

Ebrowser is a simple verison of uweb browser on the desktop.

• Fully open source.
• Capture long screenshot as vector graphics.
• Enabling web tech for vector designing to replace Adobe Illustrator/Inkscape.

Help with localization

We encourage everyone to help with localization. The following is how to do.

• Fork this repository
• Copy res/values/strings.xml to path like res/values-%(lang)/, replace %(lang) with the ISO 639-1 language code.
• Translate res/values-%(lang)/strings.xml
• Translate assets/help_%(lang).html from assets/help_en.html
• Make a Pull Request