This is so cool! I'm someone for whom emacs has steadily expanded its role in my computing life, but who will never adopt a text-based browser as a daily driver.
Looking forward to the stable 4.0 release when I'll be prepared to use Nyxt and hope it can replace Firefox / Chromium as much as possible for me.
Does it finally work on Macs without weird rituals? I love the idea of using only Linux, but I'm too stupid to deserve an employer who'd let me live my dreams. I'm just happy I'm not forced to use Windows.
The guys behind have decent lisp and hacking skills and zero to none product thinking. The project is around for a while but the complete lack of ability to think about users or from the users perpective makes it a dead end
How does it stack up in terms of security? To me the idea of hackability is a bit conflicting with all the security features of modern browsers. The web is basically the main attack surface today, so I wouldn't use a niche browser engine.
Exactly my thought when I read the post. While I love the hackability of Emacs, it’s one thing if it’s just your editor with a security hole and another thing entirely if you’re downloading and interpreting pages (and JavaScript?) from the Internet cesspool with a browser with a security hole.
Love nyxt - I am just waiting for when I will be able to use sites like youtube with it (or other common site just not compatible yet with the web engine.) They have a road map to move to Blink/Chromium which would make the site compatible with today's modern web.
To those that have tried the browser or investigated the project more, what is the utility of this browser over, say, Firefox with a vim plugin[1] that lets me also navigate with a keyboard? I am all for new browsers and believe that hobby projects don't need a reason, but I am curious what distinguishes this over something that can be achieved with plugins in a more stable platform.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 41.4 ms ] threadit would be cool to do something like this, but for the terminal.
and... yes... this is still pretty cool. When I get a machine that doesn't seize up when electron apps launch, I want to give it a try.
what makes me go back to normal browser is the search feature
nyxt search results are in modal which takes half bottom part of screen
the upper part of screen is the site text
so it's hard to get whole screen view of what o'm searching because half of real estate is taken by search modal
i prefer the / to search, n to next search with full screen
even firefox default ctrl f / g is also okay, because ot shows the whole page
[1] https://vimium.github.io/