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General

  • BrowserFame is a website dedicated to browsers, web apps, internet trends, HTML5 and related stuff.

Bookmarklet to launch site without tabs or bookmarks. Hiding the address bar is forbidden due to anti-phishing.

javascript:window.open(location.href, "detab", "toolbar=0")


Services

  • Xmarks - bookmarks (and tab) sync (and web access)

Bookmarklets



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  # MediaWiki copy title/url/selected text

Readability


Chrome

Internals

Shift+ESC
  process manager
  • chrome://version
  • chrome://net-internals
  • chrome://flags (or about:flags)

Cache

Files are cached with weird names. To find, say PDFs:

find ~/.cache/google-chrome -type f -exec file {} + | grep PDF

Chromium


Keyboard control

Ctrl+PgUp
  tab left
Ctrl+PgDown
  tab right
middle click
  open link in new tab
Ctrl+Shift+N
  open link in new tab and follow
Ctrl+L
  Highlights the URL.
Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E
  Places a '?' in the address bar. Type a search term after the question mark to perform a search using your default search engine.

Multiple profiles

Two methods; multiple browser profiles, and multiple users.

browser profiles;

multiple user accounts;

Vimium

u
  half-page up
d
  half-page down

J/L
  tab left/right

Webkit

Dev Tools

chrome://inspect/

Introductions

I/O videos;

Guides

Extensions

To sort

Mobile

Extensions



- saves form content in case of page change or crash
  • Fauxbar - Fauxbar makes Chrome's New Tab page act like Firefox's Awesome Bar. Needs a fast PC!


  • AutoScroll - changed linux middle mouse click behaviour on web pages from paste to autoscroll




Media

Better CPU usage with an external player:

Security

Productivity





History

Development

  • NOREF suppress link referrer info (for dev2prod links)

Themes

Accessibility

  • Accessibility: Keyboard Access - The Chromium Projects - An important design goal is for Chrome to be fully accessible via the keyboard. Many users with disabilities may be unable to use a mouse or other pointing device, and there are many scenarios where power users prefer keyboard shortcuts.



Site specific


  • ModHeader - Modify HTTP request and response headers



Other

Firefox

Plugins

Themes

Development

Firebug

Tools Adaptor

Security

Sync




Other

Nightly

Future

Is now called Firefox OS

  • Servo - Gecko engine replacement, written in Rust

Safari

Opera

Internet Explorer / Edge


Console

Links

Lynx


Lightweight GUI

  • NetSurf Web Browser - Small as a mouse, fast as a cheetah and available for free. NetSurf is a multi-platform web browser for RISC OS, UNIX-like platforms (including Linux), Mac OS X, and more. Whether you want to check your webmail, read the news or post to discussion forums, NetSurf is your lightweight gateway to the world wide web. Actively developed, NetSurf is continually evolving and improving.


  • Zetakey - Enable embedded device with latest HTML5 browser. It is a Webkit-based browser solution that offers HTML5 compliance, high-performance browser for Embedded Linux, Windows CE 5/6, Compact 7 and Windows Mobile.













  • vimb - a fast and lightweight vim like web browser based on the webkit web browser engine and the GTK toolkit. Vimb is modal like the great vim editor and also easily configurable during runtime. Vimb is mostly keyboard driven and does not detract you from your daily work. If your are familiar with vim or have some experience with pentadactyl the use of vimb would be a breeze, if not we missed our target.







  • Browsh - a fully-modern text-based browser. It renders anything that a modern browser can; HTML5, CSS3, JS, video and even WebGL. It can be used from a terminal or from within a normal browser. Its main purpose is to significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs.

Other

  • Pale Moon - an Open Source, Goanna-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows and Linux (with other operating systems in development), focusing on efficiency and customization. Pale Moon offers you a browsing experience in a browser completely built from its own, independently developed source that has been forked off from Firefox/Mozilla code a number of years ago, with carefully selected features and optimizations to improve the browser's stability and user experience, while offering full customization and a growing collection of extensions and themes to make the browser truly your own.






Extensions




User scripts

Usage

Capabilities

Java