dwb - a webkit web browser

jsteel · 2014-09-26 20:44:04

Sad to hear that too. Hopefully someone will continue maintenance.

Is there a way to get the URI of a currently downloading file?

nomorewindows · 2014-09-26 20:57:56

I don't know why pentadactyl doesn't already do that.

Last edited by nomorewindows (2014-10-14 22:00:34)

musicmatze · 2014-09-27 14:17:40

After running dwb for 2 years now, I get a bit bothered by the memory consumption of it. Not that it uses much, but it seems to have leaks, as after running for 8 days, the memory usage grew slowly from 0.7% to over 10%. I had not that much web pages opened and they were all github.com. Most of the time, just one tab was opened with github.

I mean, a simple restart of dwb solves this kind of issue and the memory usage is back at 0.7%, but if the memory usage grows slowly, this must mean that there are some memory leaks in dwb, right? I would appreciate if someone could fix this!

Anyways, I love dwb and I will stick to it! It's awesome and I love it!

Edit: I have 16GB Ram, so 10% are 1,6G and 0.7% are about 160 MB or something like this.

Last edited by musicmatze (2014-09-27 14:18:33)

karol · 2014-09-27 14:43:09

For me the memory use doesn't grow slowly, dwb just doesn't release the used memory like e.g. firefox does.
If I open a multimedia-heavy website and browse it for a while, then close the tab leaving the website, dwb memory use doesn't decline.

See also https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=184729

root · 2014-10-03 03:44:44

It is indeed a pity but, at least as far as I am concerned/affected, if webkit and its crashes (even though I am too aware that every computer is a world in itself) are giving the project a bad name I too would look out for greener pastures.

Looking forward to your new project portix (and it hopefully being non-SSE2 equipment compatible!).

tb01110100 · 2014-10-03 20:15:21

root wrote:

Looking forward to your new project portix (and it hopefully being non-SSE2 equipment compatible!).

Wait, new project? Did I miss something?

root · 2014-10-03 22:26:32

tb01110100 wrote:

root wrote:
Looking forward to your new project portix (and it hopefully being non-SSE2 equipment compatible!).
Wait, new project? Did I miss something?

Right there in the previous page.

It seems that portix himself did also mention it, see here.

karol · 2014-10-03 22:27:31

tb01110100 wrote:

root wrote:
Looking forward to your new project portix (and it hopefully being non-SSE2 equipment compatible!).
Wait, new project? Did I miss something?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 4#p1439944

tb01110100 · 2014-10-04 00:31:43

\o/

If you read this portix, please make it happen! DOOO EEET! PLZ!

jtgd · 2014-10-07 20:28:09

I'm trying to feed the HTML from my email (emacs,mu4e) into dwb using dwbremote. I've experimented with:

This works and correctly renders:

dwbremote :load_html_tab my.html

These do not work:

dwbremote :load_html_tab <(cat my.html)                        # goes to Wikipedia for "/dev/fd/..."

cat out | dwbremote :load_html_tab -                           # goes to Wikipedia for "dash"

mkfifo xfifo
cat my.html > xfifo &
dwbremote :load_html_tab xfifo                                 # goes to Wikipedia for "xfifo"

It seems as though dwb checks that the parameter is a genuine file and only then will read it, otherwise it's like you typed it as a URL. (Apparently Wikipedia is my default search engine)

Is there a way to make dwb read a stream of HTML without creating a file?
TIA

Trilby · 2014-10-07 21:01:57

I'm not sure any browser could do that - browsers need a 'seekable' file. Even textmode browsers fail on this.

I have something set up for my email in mutt to do something similar, but mutt creates a temporary file (/tmp/muttXXXXX) then opens that in my browser.

jtgd · 2014-10-08 14:54:06

Trilby wrote:

I'm not sure any browser could do that - browsers need a 'seekable' file. Even textmode browsers fail on this.
I have something set up for my email in mutt to do something similar, but mutt creates a temporary file (/tmp/muttXXXXX) then opens that in my browser.

Ah, ok, I didn't think it would need to seek for simply reading HTML since it doesn't seek when reading from a network socket. Thanks for your answer, I'll just use a temp file then.

Trilby · 2014-10-08 15:26:30

jtgd wrote:

it doesn't seek when reading from a network socket.

That's a good point. Perhaps my reasoning is flawed, but the observation is reliable: I've never known a browser to render piped data.

zappathustra · 2014-10-12 15:25:09

Hello there,

After a few months with Conkeror, I'm switching to dwb, which seems simpler and faster (although unmaintained, it now seems).

One thing I did with Conkeror is restrict hints to result links in Google, so I can hit "f" then "1" to jump to the first result, "f" then "2" for the second, etc.

The best I could come up with in dwb is:

//!javascript
new Signal("navigation",
  function (_, _, req) {
    if (req.uri.match(/https?:\/\/www\.google\.[^\/]+\/search\?/)) {
      hint("f", null, null, "h3 a");
    } else {
      hint("f", null, null, "");
    }
  }
).connect();

It works ok, but it's not perfect. In particular, I don't know how to do the same with "F" to open a link in a new tab. So, does anybody has a better idea?

(The "perdomainsettings" extension doesn't help here, since it changes settings, not keys; and I can't see how to do the same with keys, unless you want to parse the "data.keys" file?)

Best,
Paul

iskandr · 2014-10-13 12:45:01

Is flash known to not work with dwb-gtk3-git or am I missing something? At least it doesn't work for me ("missing plugin" messages) since I switches to the gtk3 version...

rikn00 · 2014-10-13 13:24:01

iskandr wrote:

Is flash known to not work with dwb-gtk3-git or am I missing something? At least it doesn't work for me ("missing plugin" messages) since I switches to the gtk3 version...

If I remember correctly, flash plugin doesnt work out-of-the-box with gtk3-webkit. Using nspluginwrapper might get it working with gtk3 but I haven't done that myself.

serdotlinecho · 2014-10-17 12:26:59

Does anyone knows how to disable SSLv3 on dwb?

https://poodle.io/browsers.html

Or I have to abandon dwb and only use Firefox or Chromium/Chrome?

nomorewindows · 2014-10-17 12:38:39

Poodle has been a recent problem and ssl 3 is poodle I think.

teatreetea · 2014-10-27 21:01:58

I've tried searching on here and google but no luck.

On dwb whenever I visit a google related website: google, gmail, etc. it throws up the error:

------------------------------------------

Unable to load page

Problem occurred while loading the URL https://www.google.co.uk/search?output= … s_l=&pbx=1

Unacceptable TLS certificate.

------------------------------------------

I really have no idea about this, I've tried update-ca-certificates but nothing, also certutil -L returns

certutil: function failed: SEC_ERROR_LEGACY_DATABASE: The certificate/key database is in an old, unsupported format.

I don't even know what log files to show?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Last edited by teatreetea (2014-10-27 21:30:18)

root · 2014-10-28 04:03:48

Maybe you would get more user 'input', even from the dwb programmer portix himself, if you had posted this in the related dwb thread.

//Reporting my own reply to see if site staff considers it suitable to merge your message with that one. Feel free to delete my own afterwards.

jasonwryan · 2014-10-28 05:04:03

Merging with the dwb thread...

nomorewindows · 2014-10-28 08:52:21

I think there is a problem with webkit. A site that didn't use to use google ajax is now crashing in dwb and luakit.

root · 2014-12-02 00:27:27

I am wondering, those fixes that were available in the git version, would it be possible to include them in the community version too despite the drop in maintainance?

If there are actually fixes available that is...

I know one could simply switch from the community build to the preferred AUR one but some user presumably, including me, would still like to take advantage of the community build instead of the AUR one.

karol · 2014-12-02 00:31:27

You can post to the arch-general ML and ask if the maintainer wants to package the last -git version.
https://lists.archlinux.org//listinfo/arch-general/

root · 2014-12-02 01:21:35

@karol

Thank you for your suggestion.

I have nevertheless chosen to take advantage of the forum mail feature in order to contact portix.

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