#+date: 2023-03-08
#+options: toc:nil

* Cool free software web browsers

There are multiple options to browse the web using programs built by
free-software communities. See below some of them and "Happy Browsing"!

** Parabola Iceweasel

[[https://wiki.parabola.nu/Iceweasel][Icweasel]] is based on Firefox (rolling-release) disabling some features that may
compromise the user's privacy. There is an interesting [[https://wiki.parabola.nu/IceWeasel_History][review of the Iceweasel history]]
for those that want to know more about it.

** Icecat

The GNU version of Firefox. [[https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/][Icecat]] has some nice add-ons to check
how Javascript is working on the browsers and to block some unfriendly scripts
or threads on the web.

** Gemini protocol

The [[https://gemini.circumlunar.space/][gemini protocol]] can be used on specific browsers:

 * [[https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/amfora/wiki][Amfora]]
 * [[https://bombadillo.colorfield.space/][Bombadillo]]

** Luakit

[[https://luakit.github.io/][luakit]] is a "fast, extensible and highly customizable" web browser. You can use
it using keybindings similar to those used in vim (a text editor)

- Here some hints on how to use luakit on Trisquel [[https://trisquel.info/es/forum/configuring-and-running-luakit-browser][forum]]
- Here some hints on how to use luakit on [[https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Luakit][Arch linux wiki]]

** W3m

A small browser and a great project. [[https://w3m.sourceforge.net/][w3m]] is designed to be used from a terminal
emulator. 

** eww

[[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eww.html][eww]] is really nice tool to browse within emacs.

** There is more: there are more free-software browsers

Some o them:

 * [[https://lynx.invisible-island.net/][linx]]
 * [[http://links.twibright.com/][links]]
 * [[https://apps.kde.org/es/konqueror/][konqueror]]

** References

- Want to know the differences between internet and the Web? as well as many
  interesting stuffs (like the "Javascript Trap")?
  Takea look at [[https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/taking-back-the-web-with-haketilo/][this great talk about the web, internet and browsers -
  Libreplanet conference by Nicholas Johnson]]
- A [[https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/the-net-beyond-the-web/][great talk about the net and web]]