MyOS-ArchLinux / nbrowser

🔗 🌐 : an easy way to open links in browsers, mimic the "Open URL with..." dialog on Android, `nbrowser` help you open links in a browser

nbrowser

nbrowser started as browser prompter for Linux. It works by setting it as the default browser; any clicked links in non-browser apps are now sent to nbrowser where you are presented with a menu of all your installed browsers. You may now decide which app you’d like to continue opening the link with and more.

rofi with DarkBlue theme

Features

- auto detect installed browsers
- auto remove tracking elements from URLs (basic)
- ?search engines
- !bangs
- !ubangs : url bangs
- !dbangs : direct bangs or domain bangs
- ...

Requirements

• rofi
• a browser
• Video Player : mpv or vlc
• Video Downloader : youtube-dl or yt-dlp
• Image Viewer : sxiv or feh
• Image Editor : gimp
• Clipboard managers : xclip

Installation

git clone https://github.com/MyOS-ArchLinux/nbrowser
cd nbrowser/
sudo make install

Tips

• set a keyboard shortcuts (ex: super+W) to open nbrowser easly

• set nbrowser as the default browser so you can open each clicked URL with nbrowser (ex: using xdg-utils).

  xdg-mime default nbrowser.desktop x-scheme-handler/https x-scheme-handler/http x-scheme-handler/browser

• some console applications us the variable $BROWSER to open default browser, so you may also need to set environment variable BROWSER=nbrowser

• for one-click switch between browsers copy and paste this code into a bookmark URL of all your browser javascript:window.location='browser://'+location.href;

External links

• WIKI
• Config
• FAQ
• Community Plugins

Bug reports

Please use the issue tracker provided by GitHub to send us bug reports or feature requests.

License

GPLv3