Ask HN: Is there a hackable web browser?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14799822

by bootcat • 9 years ago

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Is there a browser, that allows us to change DOM on the fly, without all the restrictions of chrome extensions ( even mozilla is doing web extensions ) like saving to hard disk, script injection, and being more developer friendly ?

TheRoccoB• 9 years ago

Electron?

bootcat3• 9 years ago

SO electron is again chrome. Doesn't it shield DOM and allow access only through content scripts. SO isn't the same model available in Electron ?

smt88• 9 years ago

Vivaldi might be your best bet: https://vivaldi.com

Interacting with disk isn't easy with Chrome, but using something like Styler or GreaseMonkey (or whatever it's called now) lets you mess with a page however you want.

The overhead of an extension is pretty small, once you actually build it and set your browser to developer mode.

bootcat3• 9 years ago

does vivaldi, have a plugin framework, that help us interact and save dom nodes ?

Someone• 9 years ago

It doesn't seem to be actively developed, and may not work well out of the box, but https://www.uzbl.org/ may be an option, or at least give some inspiration.

bootcat3• 9 years ago

Thank you for the reference. Seems promising, but let me use and see !

Ask HN: Is there a hackable web browser?

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