LRRH is a BadWolf derived browser with sane keybindings, dark mode, kiosk mode, middle mouse click to open hyperlinks on new tabs and Gemini/Gopher protocol support (trough external aplications).
It stands for "Little Red Riding Hood", an European fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf.
These are the keybinds used in LRRH:
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Esc | Stop loading page / Clear search field and return focus to page |
| F1 | Show about LRRH |
| F4 | Toggle Dark Mode on/off |
| F5 | Reload page |
| F11 | Toggle Kiosk Mode on/off |
| F12 | Show inspector view |
| Alt+(1 to 9) | Goto first, second, third.. nineth tab |
| Alt+Left | Goto previous page |
| Alt+Right | Goto next page |
| Ctrl+0 | Use 100% zoom factor |
| Ctrl+plus | Increase zoom factor by 10% |
| Ctrl+minus | Decrease zoom factor by 10% |
| Ctrl+Tab | Switch to the next tab |
| Ctrl+Shift+Tab | Switch to the previous tab |
| Ctrl+D | Open https://lite.duckduckgo.com in new tab |
| Ctrl+F | Goto search widget |
| Ctrl+G | Find next |
| Ctrl+H | Return focus to page |
| Ctrl+I | Toggle show images on/off |
| Ctrl+J | Toggle enable javascript on/off |
| Ctrl+L | Goto location widget |
| Ctrl+P | Show print dialog |
| Ctrl+Q | Quit LRRH |
| Ctrl+R | Reload page |
| Ctrl+Shift+C | Copy statusbar text (hyperlink) to clipboard |
| Ctrl+Shift+G | Find previous |
| Ctrl+Shift+N | Open link in new tab |
| Ctrl+T | Open new empty tab |
| Ctrl+W | Close current tab |
| Ctrl+Z | Translate selected text to the user system LANG using Google Translator |
Comparing from other small WebKit browsers for unixes found in the wild:
- Independent of environment, should just work if GTK and WebKitGTK does
- Storing data should be:
- explicit and optionnal (ie. Applying preferences doesn't imply Saving to disk)
- not queryabe by WebKit (so the web can't use it)
- done in a standard format (like XBEL for bookmarks)
- Static UI, no element should be added at runtime, this is to avoid potential tracking via viewport changes
- Small codebase, should be possible to read and understand it completely over an afternoon.
- Does not use modal editing (from vi) as that was designed for editing, not browsing
- UTF-8 encoding by default
Dependencies are:
- POSIX-compatible Shell (ie. mrsh, dash, lksh)
- C11 Compiler (such as clang or gcc)
- WebKitGTK, only the latest stable(2.32.0+) is supported
- libxml-2.0, no known version limitation
- POSIX make with extension for shell in variables (works with GNU, {Net,Free,Open}BSD)
- A pkg-config implementation (pkgconf is recommended)
- (optional) gettext implementation (such as GNU Gettext)
- (optional, test) mandoc (the command) for linting the manpage
Compilation is done with ./configure && make, install with make install (DESTDIR and PREFIX environment variables are supported, amongs other common ones). An example AppArmor profile is provided at usr.bin.lrrh, please do some long runtime checks before shipping it or a modified version, help can be provided but with no support.
You'll also need inkscape (command line only) if you want to regenerate the icons, for example after modifying them or adding a new size. These aren't needed for normal installation as it is bundled.
Most of the privacy/security stuff will be done with patches against WebKit as quite a lot isn’t into WebKitSettings and with generic WebKit extensions that should be resuseable.