surf - simple webkit-based browser

surf is a simple Web browser based on WebKit/GTK+.

My build of surf, the feather-weight and simple web browser made by suckless. See the original website at surf.suckless.org

Features

• add/remove bookmarks (one per line in ~/.config/surf/bookmarks)
• custom search engines (prefixes)
• search in duckduckgo by prefixing a query with '`'
• use XA_CLIPBOARD instead of XA_PRIMARY for C-y and C-p operations
• spawn download history in a terminal with
• edit page source in $EDITOR
• follow links with keyboard shortcuts + dmenu
• open links in the default browser (xdg-open)

Applied Patches

Some patches may have been modified by me to suit my needs better.

• bookmarking
• searchengines
• spacesearch
• dlconsole
• externalpipe
• quit hotkey

Requirements

In order to build surf you need GTK+ and Webkit/GTK+ header files.

In order to use the functionality of the url-bar, also install dmenu[0].

Installation

Edit config.mk to match your local setup (surf is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install surf (if necessary as root):

make clean install

Running surf

run surf [URI]

See the manpage for further options.