Rosebud

Personal tweaks for rose, a minimal browser based on webkit2gtk

Features

• tabs, cookies, caching
• minimal ui, autohiding elements
• ~400L code base (edit: no longer)
• custom gtk and websites css
• hackable without any knowledge
• builtin rose-mklink script for in-shell static links
• A few quality of life improvements.

👐 Contribute

This is my personal version. Contribute upstream to github.com/mini-rose/rose instead.

To do

• Document stand_in.c better
• Look at using relative rather than absolute paths
• Figure out if downloading files is doable.
• Figure out better way to have plugins
• Double check newtab/next-tab behavior
• Find out what each of the css elements refers to.
• Use something other than Whatsapp as an example syslink.
• Mask user agent

Done:

• Launch with more than one tab from command line
• Figure out merge with upstream
• String substitution on uri in order to redirect to better frontends.
• Present "standard" browser keybindings as an alternative.
• Fix zoom in new tab
• Reader mode
• Add reader mode to config.def.
• Make tab bar slightly prettier.
• Add "open in new window" functionality.
  • Useful for opening links in new tab when clicking on them and selecting that option
  • And for actually opening links with the href new_tab option.
  • Links: https://docs.gtk.org/gobject/func.signal_connect.html, https://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkit2gtk/2.37.90/signal.AutomationSession.create-web-view.html, https://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkit2gtk/2.26.0/WebKitWebView.html#WebKitWebView-create https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40180757/webkit2gtk-get-new-window-link

Known bugs

• Doesn't work with when Spanish is selected as the language, for some reason.