Nyxt 2.2.0

https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/release-2.2.0.org

by pedrodelfino • 5 years ago

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Nuxt, Next, Nyxt. I can't keep up.

avindroth• 5 years ago

Documentation improved a lot in the recent versions. It’s still a WIP, but I had a ton of fun enjoying emacs-like philosophy natively supported in a browser.

yewenjie• 5 years ago

I really want more firepower and ergonomics out of my browser. Yet I have not found a better solution than Firefox + Tridactyl + a bunch of other extensions. Two strong contenders are Nyxt and Vieb right now but neither checks all the boxes below.

I want

- complete Vi like keybindings - almost everything should be doable via the keyboard

- window management - why can I just not split a browser window into two?

- fast and powerful engine - I don't want to use two browsers

- Webextensions support

Y_Y• 5 years ago

It's a bit of a mess, but have you tried using emacs-webkit[0]? You can have vi-style keybindings via evil-collection, the window management is pretty good, the browser engine is pretty standard. I've used it with spacemacs, and it's overall a decent experience.

It's not quite Gecko though, and I don't think WebExtensions work yet. Also the single-threadedness of emacs itself can be a bother (of course the browser component is separate).

e3bc54b2• 5 years ago

link to emacs-webkit: https://github.com/akirakyle/emacs-webkit

slightwinder3• 5 years ago

This always fails with Webextensions support. The simpler solutions just take an existing webengine-component from gtk or Qt and put a browser around it, but this fails with more complex features which are naturally not part of the webengine.

I'm curious why nobody takes directly chromium or firefox and just integrates trydactyl to get first-class-support. The major-problem with alternative keybindings is the context they run with. Extensions run inside the page-scope, and thus are only available after the page loaded. Integrating them at app-scope (which mozilla promised to deliver around 4 years ago already), would basically solve most problems instantly.

jmercouris5• 5 years ago

Yes, it is incredibly hard to build an extension system.

Why does nobody build on top of Firefox and Chromium? Probably because tracking upstream changes will be incredibly difficult. I imagine as soon as FF releases a month worth of patches, trying to integrate them and sift through them would take thousands of hours.

jmercouris5• 5 years ago

Webextensions support is /very/ close, we even have a pull request for basic support: https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/pull/1762

now that we've figured out the framework/setup we just have to implement the APIs.

seepel• 5 years ago

I’m pretty psyched to see the progress being made on this project, keep up the good work!

xelxebar3• 5 years ago

I use Nyxt as my daily browser for the most part.

After experimenting with lots of alternative browsers (uzbl, qutebrowser, etc.), I find Nyxt to excell in the following areas:

- Configuration system is highly organized as well as flexible;

- Feels like a first-class browser in almost all situations;

- Fast startup and responsive UI.

That said, I've encountered some issues, mostly in connection with work:

- CJK input is kind of janky;

- Infrequent crashes on some JS-heavy sites;

- Cannot log in to Azure Data Factory for some reason.

All in all, I would highly recommend giving Nyxt a serious spin. The devs are crazy active and helpful. I am pretty confident that the above issues will eventually get ironed out.

k1e• 5 years ago

I wonder why does it crash. It uses WebKit as renderer. Can you give an example of a page on which it does crash?

xelxebar3• 5 years ago

Unfortunately, I have been just ignoring these lately, with the intention of troubleshooting later. Now seems like a good time to at least start taking notes of problematic pages. Cheers.

KennyBlanken2• 5 years ago

No binary distribution available for about 98% of the world's desktop computers and they only linux distro they make packages for that has anything approaching significant desktop share is Arch.

It's like they're purposefully being snobs making it only available for the most obscure operating system users, or something.

jmercouris5• 5 years ago

We have a deb installer. We are trying to make it as available as possible, but we don't have the computers necessary to test and distribute on those platforms. Sorry about that!

xelxebar3• 5 years ago

If you believe it's now worth the time and effort to make such binary distributions, I'm sure the devs would highly appreciate your help and compute power.

Alekhine• 5 years ago

This is extremely common for new open source software. You can find plenty of interesting projects only packaged for Arch and Nix, because packaging for those distros is extremely easy. It's just a matter of time and effort, and this is a volunteer project.

xeyownt• 5 years ago

Wow, looks great. Might replace my Firefox with aging pentadactyl extension.

Small typo on front page: "that allow you to quickly analayze -> analyze"

d3nj4l• 5 years ago

You can use tridactyl, a well-maintained and active project for vim bindings in firefox: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/

manigandham2• 5 years ago

Neat product, but the lack of extensions is my main problem. I've been using Vimium with Chrome for keyboard navigation and it works well without losing all of the benefits of Chrome.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...

SkyMarshal• 5 years ago

Not sure why you're only mentioning a vim extension when that's exactly what Nyxt is, but better in every way.

Are there other extensions you want that are missing in Nyxt?

manigandham2• 5 years ago

I want all of the features of Chrome like extensions, profiles, syncing, passwords, etc. That's why I mentioned Vimium; because it brings keyboard nav to Chrome, instead of leaving Chrome for Nyxt.

mateuszf2• 5 years ago

It would be great to have uBlock Origin, uMatrix, firefox's containers and other privacy features.

slightwinder3• 5 years ago

If have nearly 50 extensions in Firefox. Nyxt will never implement them all. That's why APIs exist, to allow people doing it for themselves.

sigmonsays• 5 years ago

I used nyxt but the lack of extensions really stopped my use of it dead in its tracks

I need a password manager for instance, and its nice to have it integrated.

Having bookmarks sync'd too is a requirement.

Firefox containers would also be nice too since I want more control over privacy.

jmercouris5• 5 years ago

Indeed, that is why we've been working really hard at it!

https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/pull/1762

we are incredibly close.

agumonkey• 5 years ago

kudos on the new features

mateuszf2• 5 years ago

Pity there is no brew package.

mark_l_watson• 5 years ago

I second this. I like Nyxt but the macOS install experience can be painful.

jmercouris5• 5 years ago

Indeed, I wish there was an easier solution for macOS users, in the meantime you can try https://github.com/deddu/nyxt-docker

fsiefken• 5 years ago

Would be nice if the project could support Gemini and Gopher as well

NoGravitas• 5 years ago

There are Common Lisp client libraries for Gemini and Gopher, so I imagine it would not be that difficult to add support.

openfuture• 5 years ago

Looks like this update solves all the issues I've been having using it as a daily driver. The input stutter was incredibly bad sometimes when you have muscle memory and had to intentionally slow down. Gonna do a guix pull!

jerrygoyal• 5 years ago

not available for most popular OS

Nyxt 2.2.0

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