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Shim is a node.js app that enables simultaneous, synced web surfing across a variety of devices and browsers.
Designed to ease the process of testing a website on multiple devices: load a page on one device and all the others will be redirected to that same page.
The system requirements are very specific: you’ll need a Mac running 10.6 with a wired connection to the internet and Internet Sharing via WiFi switched on.
Delicious Surf makes fast and easier to access and organize your bookmarks on del.icio.us, by keeping a copy of your all bookmarks in your home directory.
A fork of the surf browser with tight Delicious integration (or Pinboard—just find api.del.icio.us and replace with api.pinboard.in in the opt directory before you build).
SendTab, as the name suggests, makes it easy to send and receive browser tabs from one computer to another, either targeting a specific browser on a specific machine, or flinging a link to all the devices in a ‘network’. SendTab comes in the form of a bookmarklet, a browser extension for Safari or Chrome, and an iPhone app.
I’ve only been using SendTab for a few days, but it’s already proved itself invaluable, filling a niche that’s somewhere between bookmarking and the likes of Instapaper, letting me ‘read soon, elsewhere’ rather than ‘read later’.
Via mathowie.
I’ve written about the plucky upstart search engine Duck Duck Go before, but thought I ought to give it another plug now that it’s set as the default search engine in Chrome on both my computers.
The reason? DDG’s !bang syntax, which lets you search more than a thousand sites directly—type !w lovesexy in your browser’s URL/search bar and you’re taken straight to the album’s Wikipedia entry, type !a prince and you find yourself on Amazon’s search results page. DDG is happy to let you search on its rivals, too: if I’m honest, I wouldn’t be able to use it without the !g for Google.
Fluid lets you create a Site Specific Browser (SSB) out of any website or web application, effectively turning your favorite web apps into desktop apps.
w3m is a very capable text-based web browser.
You can also use it to convert HTML documents into readable text files, like so:
cat article.html | w3m -dump -T text/html > article.txt
Links is a graphics and text mode web browser, released under GPL
I confess I’ve never tried it in graphics mode, but Links is definitely a sturdy choice for browsing the web in a texty way.
netrik is a very simple text mode web browser and html viewer.
That simplicity makes it fast, even compared to the already-speedy likes of w3m and links. Handy to have around for reading local HTML files or quick lookups on the web.
Pentadactyl is a free browser add-on for Firefox, designed to make browsing more efficient and especially more keyboard accessible. Largely inspired by the Vim text editor, the appearance and finger feel of Pentadactyl should be familiar to Vim users. Additional web-specific features, such as our ‘Hint’ mode, command interface, and key bindings to automatically follow back and forward links, make it easy to navigate without touching the mouse and give Pentadactyl a habit forming nature of its own.
A fork of Vimperator that aims to improve speed and startup time.
gleeBox is an experimental project that takes a keyboard-centric approach to navigating the web. It provides alternatives to actions that are traditionally performed via the mouse. Some of these are radically more efficient than using a mouse, some not so much. In all cases, they are mostly meant for keyboard and command line lovers.
A Quicksilver-style launcher for Chrome, Firefox & Safari.
Update: sylvain_soliman has a nice description: ‘a kind of Ubiquity reloaded’.
Thanks, Ankit.
luakit is a highly configurable, micro-browser framework based on the WebKit web content engine and the GTK+ toolkit. It is very fast, extensible by Lua and licensed under the GNU GPLv3 license.
You can create a browser interface that suits you by editing a single config file.
