Linux Software Showcase: Surf - The Suckless Browser (with video support)

Browse the internet sucklessly with surf, the suckless browser.
How to get video support in surf.
Notes:
Required software:
surf
gcr (crypt tool dependency)
Optional (video support):
GStreamer
+ gst-libav
+ gst-plugins-good
Features:
patchable
(e.g. modal)
styling
plugins (javascript)
(e.g. link hints)
Extra:
tabbed (tabs)
dmenu (address bar)
*get the source code from suckless.org to be able to patch it

[@chiscod3467]

I love that the required package with the plugins has the word "good" at the end xD

[@fuseteam]

SWEET the libav plugin worked! now just notif support and i'll have my own whatsapp build for linux

[@dubbeltumme]

great videos my dude! I Like the keyboard sound. I might go full surf one day, maybe.

[@knary9081]

Thanks for the support!

[@atilagamasilva6970]

Nice video! Thanks for sharing it. I was looking for something like this. :>

[@mahmoudagha4060]

How to integrate a password manager like (pass) in surf to autofill passwords

[@ariannacancian5902]

Great 👍 love that keyboard ⌨️ sound 😋

[@Eryn321]

and subscribed ! ty so much that help me with tabbed and surf, i feel smarter now

[@peterarbeitsloser7819]

You can import your css for the style from a firefox extension called Dark Reader, the css is pretty good.

[@denissetiawan3645]

@Rep 101 github.com/darkreader/darkreader

[@sellanraa]

surf came with video support on my install. then again, this is three years later :))

[@linkert810]

Beautiful stuff :)

[@ashishthapa529]

awesome bro. :)

[@AkamiChannel]

I don't know why the dependencies for video aren't on more places on the web! I was looking around and couldn't find it until I came across your video. Thanks!

[@ronylee11]

thank you!!

[@freddieventura4382]

How did you install the javascript extension (link hints?) I've copied all those lines of codes in my ~/.surf/script.js file but it doesnt seems to work

[@TCLengendaryGaming]

Can u make a video on how to compile webkit from source? Cuz right now, surf runs slower than a 2 legged dog

[@typereiter]

great video! question: have you noticed random dwm crashes when opening specific URL's? i think it might have something to do with unicode characters in the title. no problems in gnome 3. both surf AND firefox will crash dwm when opening these pages.

[@knary9081]

Thanks! I've never experienced a dwm crash due to web navigation. Could you give me an example of a link that causes a crash?

[@typereiter]

@@knary9081 link to example that causes a crash: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2Wbcn2VatOKqcU the only two forums links i've found related to this issue: groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/wmii/7bncCahYIww www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/am00xp/solved_after_updating_video_drivers_chromium_and/ what version of dwm are you running? mine is 6.1. the google forum had a few people trying to roll back to 6.0.

[@knary9081]

@@typereiter I'm running 6.2 and don't get any issues with the link you provided. I have a feeling you might be right about it being a font issue.

[@DudeSoWin]

"add emoji support to dmenu and it fixes everything."

[@afarquiaonion5258]

Based

[@cole9822]

Anyone know a better way to get dark mode? With this images are also inverted.

[@Porodnikov]

Anybody know how to change color of "Go:" and "about: blank" (menu when you press CTRL + g with default bindings)?)

[@isakchristenson1662]

When going to youtube and playing a video i get an strange red flashing and after awhile surf freezes up. How do you fix that?

[@AtomToast]

for me installing gst-plugins good doesn't do anything and installing gst-libav just causes surf to crash everytime I open youtube :/

[@TOn-fx2gr]

With that css it changes images and video colors too not just background color

[@AdventureTimeWithAsh]

how do you have it dark themed : o or is it bydefult

[@prathik]

what keyboard it that?

[@famaterial]

How did you make Pacman root login use your fingerprint?

[@fuseteam]

hmm guess i need to find that libav package

[@xthebumpx]

Are your dotfiles on github/lab?

[@knary9081]

github.com/theKnary/dots

[@ishdx9374]

is it fully featured (css3, html5, latest ES compliant)?

[@DudeSoWin]

I'm pretty sure it is complaint, same webkit engine as chrome and it scores good on acid test.

[@ErlingGrey]

Do I need to learn to code before getting into linux? Which language should I learn?

[@boringusername792]

You don't need to learn code. You can start with a very graphical Linux version like linux mint. After that, if you want, learn the command line (bash).

[@caleb-hill]

when i build i get collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [Makefile:23: surf] Error 1 i have gcr

[@bifrost8832]

do you have gcr-devel?

[@socvirnylestela5878]

hello are u still active in youtube?

[@juristuCDPC]

now that's autism

[@davisbindejazz]

Is this i3?

[@knary9081]

I'ts actually dwm. I'll be making a video about it in the future.

[@piotrtalarczyk8987]

@@knary9081 Dwm used as floting WM? Why?

[@knary9081]

@@piotrtalarczyk8987 Haha, I thought it would be more appealing to view... I guess it wasn't.

[@saeidsaati4021]

Good video about surf, thank you, but honestly it's useless vs Firefox and Google Chrome, because you don't have many powerful extensions.

[@almasabdrazak5089]

It's impossible to bring suckless philosophy into the bloated web which is also mentioned I their site so I would not use this browser because I am not sure about security part of it

[@DudeSoWin]

I am the one who knocks.

[@PirateFunk]

Based