breasy is a simple and fast browser in the tradition of lariza.

Written with the Qt5 toolkit, it is based on QWebView (webkit2) right now, but it will eventually move to QWebEngineView (Chromium).

• fast startup and browsing, light on system resources
• slim userinterface with tabs
• opens a given number of URLs provided as commandline arguments on startup
• default keybindings similar to Firefox
• search the current page
• keyword based search: enter "wi linux" to search wikipedia for "linux"
• content zoom
• browser plugins are enabled
• simple text configuration file

For upcoming features, take a look at the todo list and stay tuned.

Most mainstream browsers (firefox, chrome) are kind of slow and heavy on system resources. And i don't need all the features of alternative browsers like dwb, uzbl, qutebrowser etc.

I was quite happy with vain's lariza so i forked it to add the features i needed. But lately webkit(2)gtk seems to have quite some issues so i decided to switch to Qt and use Qt Webkit for my own browser.

breasy has the following requirements:

• qt5-webkit

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/okraits/breasy.git

Run qmake and make afterwards:

qmake & make

Run the breasy binary and optionally provide some URLs to open:

./breasy https://github.com/okraits/breasy http://archlinux.org

To modify the default settings, edit the file $HOME/.config/breasy/breasy.conf. It is created on startup if it doesn't exist.

For keyword based searching, add a section keywordsearch:

[keywordsearch]
go="https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%s"
wi="https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%s"

To focus the location bar to enter an URL:

CTRL + l

To load the URL just entered in the location bar:

RETURN

To create a new tab:

CTRL + t

To go to the next tab:

CTRL + Page Down

To go to the previous tab:

CTRL + Page Up

To close the current tab (or window, if you are on the last remaining tab):

CTRL + w

To open a link in a new tab:

Middle Mousebutton or CTRL + Left Mousebutton

To reload the current page:

CTRL + r or F5

To enter a word in the location bar to search for in the current page:

CTRL + f

To increase / decrease the current content zoom level:

CTRL + '+' / '-'

To go to the previous page in the browsing history:

ALT + Left

To go to the next page in the browsing history:

ALT + Right

To load the startpage defined in the configuration file:

ALT + Home

To stop the current page from loading:

ESC

This software is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt

• detect a running breasy instance and open a new tab
• share websession across several webviews
• adblock
• content zoom must affect all existing webviews
• scripting interface
• open local files
• save keybindings in configuration file
• set useragent string and accepted language
• URL autocompletion based on permanent browsing history
• show URL of the link under the mousepointer in the location bar
• mark https connections in the location bar (textcolor green)
• show favicon in location bar
• show load progress as a filling background of the location bar