dwb - a webkit web browser

rix · 2012-11-24 10:52:21

IMHO remove Adblocker is bad.
You know, also some month ago here Dwb did goes over 900Mb of Ram so I'd to unistall it. Now I'm tried it again and it needs less Ram than FireFox.

BTW there is a way to save a web page in Dwb? Something like <^s> in other browser.

Last edited by rix (2012-11-24 11:58:27)

OK100 · 2012-11-24 13:28:16

rix wrote:

BTW there is a way to save a web page in Dwb? Something like <^s> in other browser.

:download

rix · 2012-11-24 13:31:24

@OK100:
thanks...
... and sorry.

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Edit:
and a way for import bookmarks?
Thanks.

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root · 2012-11-24 21:31:57

webspider wrote:

IIRC this is webkit's standard behaviour to make reopening closed tabs faster than other browser engines by keeping the last 10 closed ones in memory. See chromium for example.

If you refer to the chromium 'branch' I have to agree as I have seen this same behaviour in Midori. Though I haven't seen, at least I do not recall it, this kind of behaviour using a browser of the 'lighter webkit branch', that is, jumanji or uzbl.
Therefore I guess these 'cousins' of dwb do use a cache handling that avoids the 'RAM blocking' and the ultimate massive swap use.

I have been looking through dwb's 'Settings' and I am right now testing the browser behaviour with the cache model set to 'documentviewer'. For now it seems to reproduce the behaviour I am used to. I noticed though that once I resumed from hibernation that there was a heavy swap use but I do not know if it is related to this new dwb cache model I am testing.

EDiT - Seems it was a momentary joy as swap use just jumped to the previously used amount (without the use of an adblocker list - I use privoxy - nor disabling site elements setting enabled)

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hickop · 2012-11-26 16:30:41

After a while fighting against vimium or vimperator I moved to dwb, and I like it !
Thank you for that great browser.

Only thing I did not manage to reproduce yet is the ignore mode of vimperator which disable normal mode on some websites/pages so you can use default keyboards shortcuts (e.g gmail).

ancalex · 2012-11-26 17:06:54

Hi portix
I verified if lib and script directory are in place but the error

** (dwb:2399): CRITICAL **: void webkit_web_frame_load_alternate_string(WebKitWebFrame*, const gchar*, const gchar*, const gchar*): assertion `content' failed

is there
also i have forgotten to mention also about this error

D-Bus-registration failed, using fallback mode

It is possible that the fallback mode is the problem?

portix · 2012-11-26 21:49:09

ancalex wrote:

Hi portix
I verified if lib and script directory are in place but the error
** (dwb:2399): CRITICAL **: void webkit_web_frame_load_alternate_string(WebKitWebFrame*, const gchar*, const gchar*, const gchar*): assertion `content' failed
is there
also i have forgotten to mention also about this error
D-Bus-registration failed, using fallback mode
It is possible that the fallback mode is the problem?

The message that dbus registration fails is just a message, not an error or warning.
Are you sure that the files are in the right place? The assertion is only displayed if dwb cannot read lib/info.html or lib/error.html.

ancalex · 2012-11-27 14:23:58

Hi portix
Thank you for your replay.
Im very sure about the files are in the right place. Could it be something else perhaps?
it is also strange why this lines are not working on my system

g_string_append_printf(content, filecontent, t->title);
g_string_append_printf(content, filecontent, panel);

(that's why I made the patch in my first post)

Vixus · 2012-11-27 16:22:45

Hey, can anyone tell me how they got HTML5 youtube playback working? I've followed everything in this series of posts but not having any luck.

With the youtube_html5 extension the youtube UI appears and is clickable, sometimes it reverts to the default crappy UI but nothing happens, no video or loading. Without the extension I just get the message "this video is unavailable". I'm really trying to avoid installing flash on my little netbook since it destroys my battery life.

webspider · 2012-11-27 18:19:00

Vixus wrote:

I'm really trying to avoid installing flash on my little netbook since it destroys my battery life.

There's also the autoquvi script, that uses quvi to play youtube videos and such in mplayer.

Vixus · 2012-11-28 12:29:40

I'll try that, but I'd still be interested to know why HTML5 isn't working (I tested other HTML5 video playback sites) --

Is it because I have a useragent pretending to be Firefox (this was to stop sites displaying in their mobile formats)?

Or maybe because I copied my config files over from a rather old version of dwb?

Edit: OK, autoquvi works, at least for youtube.. it's a bit of a pain though, having to manually choose quality and stuff each time. Also the fact it opens in a separate window. Nice not to have to rely on flash though. Shame the html5 stuff doesn't work.

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Vixus · 2012-11-28 20:09:59

Ok, html5 video doesn't work on any website and this feels like it should be reported as a webkit/dwb bug.

bohoomil · 2012-11-28 20:23:26

It works for me pretty well (YouTube, embedded).

Edit: This is what it actually looks like:

Last edited by bohoomil (2012-11-28 20:38:43)

portix · 2012-11-29 00:23:58

Vixus wrote:

I'm really trying to avoid installing flash on my little netbook since it destroys my battery life.

If flash destroys your battery life you possibly don't want to switch to html5, it needs far more cpu than flash.

DexterLB · 2012-12-01 08:40:50

I have a problem with adding search engines: I use "gs" or :save_search_field, I type a keyword but pressing Enter does nothing..
This has only appeared recently, I can't seem to find the cause

webspider · 2012-12-01 08:59:13

@portix: I think I've pinned the issue with closing high-res images down. It only happens when I've got auto-shrink-images deactivated and full-content-zoom acttivated (I use both of these options to "zoom" images with + and -). If I toggle both, the issue disappears. Though I need to test it thoroughly to be sure.

portix · 2012-12-01 12:36:18

DexterLB wrote:

I have a problem with adding search engines: I use "gs" or :save_search_field, I type a keyword but pressing Enter does nothing..
This has only appeared recently, I can't seem to find the cause

Are you using the hg-version or the community package?

DexterLB · 2012-12-02 08:25:26

portix wrote:

DexterLB wrote:
I have a problem with adding search engines: I use "gs" or :save_search_field, I type a keyword but pressing Enter does nothing..
This has only appeared recently, I can't seem to find the cause
Are you using the hg-version or the community package?

dwb-hg 1556-1 from the aur

portix · 2012-12-04 10:31:56

@DexterLB: There is a new release in community, can you check if the problem still exists?

megadriver · 2012-12-04 10:56:54

Whoa, this one has progressed quite a lot since the last time I tried it. I'm really impressed!

Looks like I can actually replace Firefox with dwb now. It does everything I need.

A quick question: Is there a way to add stuff to the user agent string instead of completely replacing it?

DexterLB · 2012-12-04 16:02:38

portix wrote:

@DexterLB: There is a new release in community, can you check if the problem still exists?

I actually upgraded to the newest hg version, and the issue is now gone.
I was somehow convinced that I had upgraded, but I hadn't.. my mistake, sorry

Lord Bo · 2012-12-09 13:36:19

Hi,

I created a small tool to create and manage and open bookmarks and search engines with the help of perl, yad and dmenu for dwb. Try it out and tell me if you like it:
https://bitbucket.org/bschnitz/dwbmt .

Benjamin

Btw.: Are there other interesting scripts you use with dwb? It could be interesting to create a list somewhere (Maybe in the dwb wiki? @portix: what do you think?). I know there might be some interesting stuff already mentioned in this thread, but I was really to lazy, to get through *all* of the 54 pages, it has by now.

Last edited by Lord Bo (2012-12-09 13:51:26)

illusionist · 2012-12-09 14:20:03

Hello portix , Thank you for your nice contribution to the community.
I have a request. Is it possible to emulate the 'save image as' behavior on any image without following it / opening on another tab and doing "gd" there.
Just like [;d] to follow link to download, Is there a way to follow image to download . Basically [;i] and [gd] or [;d] combined.

Thank you for your time.

Army · 2012-12-09 21:00:31

On the bottom bar on the right, there is [ S] for scripts, [P] for plugins (if required by the site). Those I know. But sometimes there appears [Q] and/or [ B]. What do these entries stand for?

portix · 2012-12-09 21:02:20

B indicates that a site is bookmarked, Q indicates that a site is quickmarked.

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