JavaScript
A new minimalistic web browser

kaktüs

A new minimalistic web browser. It's currently usable, and there is a lot to do.

• Download
• How It Works
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Roadmap
• Development

Download (40MB)

• OSX
• Linux
• Windows

How It Works

Tabbing menu shows both tabs and history items. They look same at first look. The difference is:

• When you hover them or select with arrow buttons, you'll see;
  • Tabs appear as blue, there is an X button on the right
  • History items appear as pink, there is a + button on the right.
  • X closes the tab, + opens that URL in new tab.
• You can filter the results by a query that you can type, like; "instagram" or "github".

Keyboard Shortcuts:

• Command+T: New Tab
• Control+Space: Open Menu
• Command+O: Focus Mode
• Shift+Command+F: Full Screen
• Shift+Command+N: Open New Window with Privacy Mode

Roadmap

Features planned:

• Improved privacy mode that can be enabled for domain names (e.g Google)
• Auto-search: automatically bringing results from search engines -in privacy mode- to the menu, so user doesn't have to open them.
• Split browsing and follow-mode

Known issues:

• Multiple windows share same tabbing session.
• There is bugs with tabbing behavior.
• Back/forward buttons should update immediately after url changes
• The tabbing menu doesn't make it clear between history and tab items

Missing:

• Context menu
• Download manager
• PDF Preview

Improvements:

• Making search better (it currently can only match word-by-word)
• Showing screenshot on the tabbing menu (saving it to DB may be?)
• Saving and recovering screen size & positions

Windows & Linux:

• The Windows build looks ugly. I don't have time and tools to fix it yet.
• I haven't seen it on Linux yet.

Development

Building From Source

Install all dependencies:

npm install

And get the build out for your target platform. Available platforms are:

• osx
• win
• linux

So, I usually run;

make osx

Command to get my build for OSX.

Making Changes

Kaktüs is built with choo and electron. Here is the commands I run to start the development:

$ make watch-css
$ make dev
$ make start

Logo

I'm temporarily using a cactus image I found on Dribble as a logo.