On Sat, 10 Jan, 2015 at 09:12:19 GMT, Troels Henriksen wrote:
I have been using xmonad for some years now, and all throughout, the browser I have been using has been a private fork of surf[0], which is essentially just a Webkit webview in a window by itself. However, I would like to switch to a more widely used browser (Chrome, Firefox, Conkeror, whatever) for usability and security reasons.
I'm an uzbl developer; nice to see others using that class of browser :) . Anyways, I'm in a similar boat with the security bits (though I find Firefox usability to be less than stellar) though. I do have TODO items to implement at least request-policy, https-everywhere, adblock, and some other addons I use ported over to uzbl at...some point, but time is not always plentiful (there's also the WebKit2 port that needs to happen and is more urgent).
The nice thing about surf is that it opens a window per page, which means that they are all visible to xmonad, and navigable through things like GridSelect, which would not be the case if I simply had two dozen tabs open in Firefox. However, sometimes tabs are nice - specifically, it's practical to use CTRL-clicking to open new pages in the background.
Do you have any suggestions on how to deal with this? Some combination of Firefox hacks and xmonad layouts? How do you set up your browsers?
Personally, I just drag Firefox tabs around as needed. As for uzbl, I use a mix of Tall, TwoPane, and Full layouts to manage lots of windows depending on the case. Tall is used by default, TwoPane when I'm going through a list of things (bug tracker, emails, images, etc.), and Full for focusing on a single window. It also helps that I have things set to, by default, pop up behind the current window and without focus. --Ben