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Re:Uzbl: a browser that adheres to the Unix philosophy by 3ds on Sunday September 06, 2009 @04:04PM (#808098)
Just noticed that there've already been interesting discussions about Uzbl on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=626281

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=578618

What I wonder the most about is why they don't try to bring a command line interface to firefox, kind of like how you can call safari and its content from applescript.

I think firefox can already be used with keyboard shortcuts only and they have a hard time getting their browser to be half as fast.

What configurability is concerned, I think that mozillas choice of saving all the user configs etc in a sqlite database is easy enough to access by script.

Still interesting and probably good fun to fool around with!

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Re:Uzbl: a browser that adheres to the Unix philosophy by psyklic on Sunday September 06, 2009 @04:21PM (#808117)
>> What I wonder the most about is why they don't try to bring a command line interface to firefox

See http://labs.mozilla.com/ubiquity/

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Re:Uzbl: a browser that adheres to the Unix philosophy by 3ds on Sunday September 06, 2009 @05:01PM (#808158)
yes that is really cool too but no, i meant an actual shell interface to communicate with the browser
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Re:Uzbl: a browser that adheres to the Unix philosophy by mordero on Sunday September 06, 2009 @05:07PM (#808164)
Something like this: http://wiki.github.com/bard/mozrepl ?
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Re:Uzbl: a browser that adheres to the Unix philosophy by s2r2 on Sunday September 06, 2009 @05:17PM (#808178)
or like this: http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/ (works fine with "minimalist" browsers)
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Re:Uzbl: a browser that adheres to the Unix philosophy by 3ds on Sunday September 06, 2009 @05:52PM (#808195)
Yes! That is the most amazing thing I hadn't known I wanted to have :D It takes greasemonkey and jetpack to a whole nother level. Awesome awesome awesome! If I didn't have a very important test tomorrow I know I'd spend hours messing with firefox till nothing was left.
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