Projects

Chromium (Google Chrome)

Chromium is the open-source project behind Google Chrome. It builds on components from other open source software projects, including WebKit and Mozilla, and is aimed at improving stability, speed and security with a simple and efficient user interface. See licensing at ... [More] http://dev.chromium.org/developers/faq and http://code.google.com/chromium/terms.html [Less]

WebKit

WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit's HTML and JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE.

Epiphany

Epiphany is the web browser for the GNOME desktop. Its goal is to be simple and easy to use. Epiphany ties together many GNOME components in order to let you focus on the Web content, instead of the browser application. As part of the GNOME project, Epiphany is Free Software. Epiphany is powered ... [More] by the WebKit engine. In addition, it provides an elegant, responsive and uncomplicated user interface that fits in perfectly with GNOME, and it has been translated to over thirty languages! [Less]

uzbl

Uzbl is a free and open source minimalist web browser designed for simplicity and adherence to the Unix philosophy. Development started in early 2009. The core component of uzbl is developed in C but other languages are also used, most notably Python. All parts of the uzbl project are released as free software under the GNU GPL version 3.

Midori

Midori is a lightweight web browser. * Full integration with GTK+2. * Fast rendering with WebKit. * Tabs, windows and session management. * Flexibly configurable Web Search. * User scripts and user styles support. * Straightforward bookmark management. * Customizable and extensible interface. * Extensions written in C.

pywebkitgtk

Project DescriptionPyWebKitGtk provides an API for developers to program WebKit/Gtk using Python. The project share the same goals with WebKit. The purpose of this binding is to bring an alternative web engine to Python/GTK+ application developers who might need a web browser engine for their ... [More] next application or developers wishing to have a better browser engine that they can access to using the Python programming language. Build$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/pywebkitgtk/install/path $ make $ make installDemoThere is a sample web browser using Python and WebKit/Gtk. To run: $ python demos/webbrowser.pyIf you have installed pywebkitgtk in a non-standard location (i.e. not in /usr or /usr/local), you might want to use the following: $ PYTHONPATH=/pywebkitgtk/install/path python demos we [Less]

Arora

Arora is a lightweight cross-platform web browser. It's free (as in free speech and free beer). Arora runs on Linux, embedded Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Windows and any other platforms supported by the Qt toolkit. Arora uses the QtWebKit port of the fully standards-compliant WebKit layout ... [More] engine. It features fast rendering, powerful JavaScript engine and supports Netscape plugins. Arora began as a demo by Benjamin Meyer to help test the QtWebKit component, but since then it has grown into its own project outside of Qt. Arora has a small, simple code base that is fun to hack on. Join the party in #arora on irc.freenode.org! [Less]

rekonq

claimed by KDE

rekonq is a lightweight web browser for KDE, based on WebKit

Hotot

Hotot, is a lightweight & open source microblogging software, coding using Python language and designed for Linux. It depends less but supports more. It's been developed actively and still in Alpha stage.

wkhtmltopdf

Simple shell utility to convert html to pdf using the webkit rendering engine, and qt. Introduction