Luakit is a highly configurable browser framework based on the WebKit web content engine and the GTK+ toolkit.
It is extensible with Lua.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Designed for power users, developers, and people who need fine-grained control.
- Very fast in operation.
- The vast majority of actions are available via keyboard commands.
- Vertical tabs.
- Follow mode.
- Good bookmark management.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Windows 10 with WSL.
- Save command (:save) lets you save the complete page as a single MHTML file.
- Easily add custom search engines.
Website: luakit.github.io
Support: Documentation, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Aidan Holm, Mason Larobina and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
There are three main directories that luakit and its modules will search in order to load user data and configuration, such as user stylesheets, userscripts, and adblock filterlists. These directories are the configuration directory, the data directory, and the cache directory respectively.
Luakit is written in Lua and C. Learn Lua with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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|---|---|
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| Nyxt | Keyboard-oriented extensible web browser |
| Luakit | Fast, extensible, and customizable WebKit-based web browser |
| Midori | Based on WebKit and the GTK+ 2 or GTK+ 3 interface |
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| Kristall | Small internet browser |
| Falkon | Lightweight Webkit browser following the UNIX philosophy |
| Dillo | Small, stable, developer-friendly, usable, very fast, and extensible |
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| Netsurf | Has its own layout and rendering engine entirely written from scratch |
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