Next Web Browser

Next is a keyboard-oriented, extensible web-browser designed for power users. The application has familiar key-bindings (Emacs, VI, or CUA), is fully configurable and extensible in Lisp, and has powerful features for productive professionals.

Next includes many features designed to enable you to be productive. A few of them are demonstrated below.

Warning: Next is under active development. Feel free to report bugs, instabilities or feature wishes.

Security warning for macOS users: The Cocoa webkit platform port has been dropped. It’s currently not possible to build it without exposing Next to a remote-execution vulnerability. We recommend macOS users to wait for the next release which will feature a new platform port.

Fast tab switching

Switch easily between your open tabs by fuzzy search. If you are looking for https://www.example.com, you could type in ele, exa, epl, and any other valid series of letters.

History as a tree

History is represented as a tree that you can traverse. More complex than the “forwards-backwards” abstraction found in other browsers, the tree makes sure you never lose track of where you’ve been.

Consider the following example:

Start page True Parrot
Visit page Gray Parrot
Return to page True Parrot
Visit page Budgerigar
Return to page True Parrot
Execute forwards keybind in history

It is at this point that a normal browser would not be able to navigate you forwards to your visit of Gray Parrot. Instead of erasing your history, Next offers smart navigation and prompts the user. Do you wish to go forwards to Gray Parrot or to Budgerigar?

Lightning fast navigation

Next is lightweight and fast. The interface does not get in your way- everything can be done by keyboard. You are free to fully focus on your task unburdened by cumbersome UI.

Link Hints provide you with the ability to instantly jump to any link on the page, or even open it in a new tab.

Fuzzy completion means intelligent completion. Find your bookmarks, open up new links, or switch tabs with the power of fuzzy completion.

Getting Started

Install Next

See the downloads page for pre-built binaries. Some operating systems provide packages for Next:

Arch Linux AUR
Guix: Install with guix package --install sbcl-next.

Guix is a package manager that can be installed on any GNU/Linux distribution; should Next be missing from your distribution, there is always the possibility to install Guix on your system and use it to install Next.

If Guix is easily available for your distribution (e.g. as a package), then this is the simplest route.
If not, or if you want to help developing Next, building from source is the recommended route.

To perform an installation from source, please see the developer readme.

D-Bus requirement

Since 1.3.0, Next needs a D-Bus session bus to run. In most cases, it should already be running.

If Next does not start up, it is very likely that D-Bus is not running for your user. You can start D-Bus manually manually with the following shell command:

$ dbus-launch

To enable D-Bus on login, you need to wrap your window manager executable with dbus-launch in your X initialization file (e.g. ~/.xinitrc). For instance, to start Stumpwm:

# <Your user settings here>
#
# Nothing will be executed after `exec'.
exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session stumpwm &

Quickstart Keys

C-l: Load URL in tab
M-l: Load URL in a new tab
C-x b: Switch tab
C-b: Backwards history
C-f: Forwards history
C-x C-c: Quit

The symbols represent modifiers:

C: Control key
S: Super (Windows key, Command key)
M: Meta (Alt key, Option key)
s: Shift key

The following keys exist as special keys:

BACKSPACE, DELETE, ESCAPE , HYPHEN, RETURN, SPACE, TAB

Customize and Extend Next

Customization is possible through the creation of a ~/.config/next/init.lisp file. From here you can override and redefine any of the functions by defining your init file as part of the :next package. For more information please see: customizing Next.

Additionally, a document provided in the documents directory named EXTENSION.org is a place for the community to share helpful customizations. To share your own extension, please make a pull request with your new extension appended to EXTENSION.org.

Documentation

For full documentation about Next, how it works, and how to extend it please see the user manual.

History of changes

Please see the CHANGELOG.org.

AlbertSid / next