Minimal Kiosk Browser

Minimal WebKit browser written for the Raspberry Pi by gkreidl (“kweb suite”): kiosk mode, audio and video playback (including YouTube via youtube-dl) delegated to omxplayer, PDFs opened with mupdf or xpdf, downloads via wget; a kweb3 variant used accelerated WebKitGTK 3, then the two were merged into a single GTK+3 kweb under Raspbian Stretch.

Facts

Developer

gkreidl (Raspberry Pi forum)

Website

web.archive.org

Engine

WebKit (WebKitGTK)

Platforms

Linux

Details

Raspbian; version 1.7.9.8 for Stretch (Sept. 2017), fix in Nov. 2018, upgrade for Buster (Aug. 2019); copy of the code on GitHub (ekapujiw2002/kweb, 2014)

Popularity

38/100 — Estimate: widespread kiosk browser on Raspberry Pi, official forum thread updated from 2013 to 2019 (68 edits)

Key versions

1. Apr. 17, 2013
   —WebKit (WebKitGTK)Announced on the Raspberry Pi forum as a lightweight WebKit browser made for the Raspberry Pi.[1]
2. Feb. 16, 2015
   1.6.3Version 1.6.3, shipped with kweb3, a GTK 3 variant using hardware-accelerated WebKit.[1]
3. Aug. 30, 2017
   1.7.9.7Final version for Raspbian Jessie.[2]
4. Sept. 22, 2017
   1.7.9.8First version for Raspbian Stretch.[2]
5. Nov. 16, 2018
   —Hotfix of the kweb suite for Stretch.[2]
6. Aug. 25, 2019
   —Upgrade for Raspbian Buster, the last one announced.[2]

Version sources: [1] raspberrypi.org (archive.org), [2] raspberrypi.org (archive.org)

Sources

1. https://web.archive.org/web/2016/https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=40860
2. https://github.com/ekapujiw2002/kweb
3. https://web.archive.org/web/2019/https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=40860