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dwb

2010 – 2014 Discontinued
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Lightweight keyboard-driven WebKitGTK browser inspired by the Vimperator extension (Vim shortcuts), configurable through a web interface and scriptable in JavaScript; it inspired qutebrowser.

Facts

Developer
Stefan Bolte (portix)
Website
web.archive.org
Engine
WebKit (WebKitGTK)
Successor
qutebrowser
Platforms
Linux
Details
Announced on the Arch forums on April 18, 2010; last Debian snapshot 20140702hg; never ported to WebKit2, considered obsolete and insecure (Arch Wiki)
Popularity
30/100 — Estimate: popular in the Arch Linux community (official community package), 9 likes on AlternativeTo

Sources

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20150106025818/http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/
  2. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=95589
  3. https://sources.debian.org/src/dwb/20140702hg-2/README
  4. https://listi.jpberlin.de/pipermail/qutebrowser/2022-December/000922.html
  5. https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/arch-wiki-md-repo@0.10.84/wiki/_content/english/Dwb.md