https://github.com/kovidgoyal/vise

A keyboard driven browser with tabs in a tree
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/vise

browser keyboard tabtree

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A keyboard driven browser with tabs in a tree

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/vise
• Owner: kovidgoyal
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2015-08-29T11:32:53.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-04-30T16:04:06.000Z (5 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-02T18:08:59.237Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: browser, keyboard, tabtree
• Language: Python
• Size: 1.11 MB
• Stars: 141
• Watchers: 9
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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Vise

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A keyboard driven browser with tabs in a tree. Uses an embedded chromium

instance (via QtWebEngine) for the actual rendering. I got tired of

depending on fragile, cobbled together, poorly integrated solutions based on

mainstream browsers and extensions. Mainstream browsers are designed for lowest

common denominator usage, that is no longer good enough.

Features

----------

Here is a list of features that I intend this browser to have

 * Easy navigation through history by substring matching using the keyboard

 * A tabbed tree browser with drag and drop to group as well as quick access

   via keystrokes to individual tabs

 * The UI is modal, like vim, which means all major UI functions can be quickly

   and easily accessed via single key strokes.

 * Integrated password management with a simple (encrypted) filesystem based storage for

   passwords. That makes it easy to sync between computers using standard file

   syncing tools.

 * Text based configuration files for easy reproducability and syncing of

   settings

Status

--------

vise is fully functional, and I use it as my daily browser. While the code in

vise is fully cross-platform, currently it is only tested on linux, as I don't

have the time/interest to test on other platforms. If you want to install vise

for yourself on linux, you will need the dependencies listed in the

dependencies.txt file and then checkout this repository (I assume below that it

is checked out into the folder `~/work/vise`). Run:

```

rapydscript --js-version 6 --cache-dir ~/work/vise/.build-cache ~/work/vise/client/main.pyj > ~/work/vise/resources/vise-client.js

```

to build the client side JS vise uses. Once that is done, you can run vise

straight out of the source code folder, like this:

```

python3 ~/work/vise

```

Ad blocking

------------

While it was originally my plan to add integrated ad-blocking to vise, I

decided against it, since a better solution is to use either a system-wide (or

better network-wide) hosts blacklist, for example:

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts or use a system-wide privacy enabled

proxy, such a privoxy. These solutions have the advantage of working across all

applications, not just the browser.