Glide
A keyboard-focused, extensible web browser configured in TypeScript, currently in alpha.
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About Glide
Glide is a web browser built around keyboard navigation, with modal keymaps in the style of Vim: hint mode for following links, hjkl movement, a jumplist and a fuzzy tab manager. Configuration is written in TypeScript, and settings and keymaps can be set per site. It supports the web extensions API.
Builds are available for macOS, Linux and Windows, including through Homebrew and the AUR. The project is in alpha, so features are missing and bugs are expected, and Windows support is experimental with unsigned binaries.
Strengths
- Modal Vim-style keymaps with link hints
- TypeScript configuration and site-specific keymaps
- Supports web extensions
- Fuzzy tab manager
Limitations
- Alpha software with missing features and bugs
- Windows support is experimental and binaries are unsigned
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to download.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- The Glide contributors
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Best suited for
- Keyboard-driven users who want to script their browser in TypeScript
- Categories
- Web browsers
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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Nyxt
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Luakit
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vimb
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surf
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