Next web browser

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

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

If you like Next and if you want to help future development, support us on Patreon and don’t miss our crowdfunding campaign for v1.4!

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, or any other matching series of letters.

History as a tree

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

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.

Getting started

Install Next

Next supports GNU/Linux, macOS, and Guix with engine support for WebKit and WebEngine/Blink.

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

MacPorts
Arch Linux AUR
Guix: Add the Next Guix channel, then update your package list with guix pull and install with guix install next.

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

If you want to use the Qt Webengine/Blink platform port, you currently have to build it from source.

Download a Qt Webengine archive here. Once you have extracted it, run the next-pyqt-webengine binary.
Download a GNU/Linux Debian binary of the Lisp core on our CI system here (you have to download the build artifacts), and run it with ./next.

D-Bus requirement

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.

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
TAB: Complete candidate (in minibuffer)

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, Left, Right, Up, Down

Configuration

Customize and extend Next

Complete customization is possible through the creation of a ~/.config/next/init.lisp file. For more information please see: “Customizing Next” within the MANUAL.org.

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.

Run Next in a security sandbox

For improved security while you browse the internet, you can run Next with Firejail on GNU/Linux.

Firejail is a SUID program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf. It allows a process and all its descendants to have their own private view of the globally shared kernel resources, such as the network stack, process table, mount table.

Run it like this:

firejail --ignore=nodbus next-gtk-webkit

Documentation

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

If you want to help with development or build Next from scratch, read the developer’s documentation at documents/README.org.

History of changes

Please see the CHANGELOG.org.

melpme / next