i've been getting rather increasingly miffed with firefox. it's never really been my "favorite" browser, just the one i've ended up using for various features i felt i couldnt live without, n couldnt find in other browsers without making bigger compromises.
well.. it's time to make a serious effort to change.
as with tiling window managers, you have to stick with them for about a week before yu realise how much better it is... and after hearing fabsh on linux outlaws recently suggest people spend at least two weeks with gnome3... i plan to do the same with uzbl.
uzbl-tabbed to be precise. not readdy to give up tabs just yet, even if i do use a tiling window manager. (i did consider using surf too, but since it's based on uzbl i hear, i thought i'd skip the middleman).
currently, as i start to type this, i have both uzbl-tabbed and firefox running, and am just working out a few details to ease the transition, but i realise, the sooner i just close firefox and make a dedicated decision to stop using it, i'll transition all the more expediently (if a little more uncomfortably at the start.) ... so i plan to do that in a few minutes.
i had a little hiccough earlier when i couldnt get youtube videos to play.... uninstalling gnash soon sorted that though, and it's as seemless as it aught to be again.
i was going to start to construct a firefox-esq set of keyboard controls, but looking in the config, i soon began to realise, there was so much more potential in uzbl, and i'd be better off learning the defaults, so put that config construction on hold. i'm going to try to give the default controls the full fortnight test.
i always like to test the waters in a project's irc channel. #uzbl on freenode has a reasonably healthy 52 people in it, and rather amusingly, when i got a quirky snide unhelpful remark from one user, (to which i replied "mkay. i thought uzbl users would have more inteligent responces than that.") another user came along and apologised for them. :) a good sign of a healthy community spirit.
they* engage with issues, and enjoy learning more as they use their greater experience and knowledge to more expediently get to the nub of whatever issue you may be having.
(* of course, i cant say everyone in there is like that, but that's the general vibe and jist i picked up from my interactions.)
... i dont suggest you go in there with a wont-rtfm help-leach attitude though. .... not that you likely would if you're interested in the likes of uzbl though. ;)
about those few little niggles i mentioned earlier...
one is adblock. i've found a couple scripts for that, just looking into how to implement them now.
the other is the ability to download streamed video.
without these two features, i'll just give up on uzbl. ^_^
oh, and also ensuring i can delete all flash cookies is a biggie too... but that's such a simple little issue, i could EASILY write a script for that myself, n bind a key for it.
... ok, after spending an age trying to get uzbl-tabbed to accept this paste keybind:
@cbind
i discover it works fine with uzbl-browser. so, i'll see how well i get on without tabs. i dont mind. i have an ace window manager. ... and i'd rather be able to copy selected text with a ctrl-c (without having to press "i" first) than have tabs that i navigate clumsily, if i'm only allowed one or the other. (i'll check out some of those other tabbing scripts later anyways, i'm just glad i have my ctrl-c workflow restored... no more pressing i, or righclick-copy, or relying on select-middleclick (which i like to have as-well-as, not instead-of/only).
ok, it's late when i'm writing this after all that faffing around reading up about xclip not realising it's just uzbl-tabbed playing up, and it works fine in uzbl-brower. ~ i'll check on that in the morning with a fresh head...
it's not even a day in, and i already love it more than firefox.
PS. hehe... added XMonad.Layout.Tabbed and simpleTabbed, et viola, i have tabs again, sorta. ;) works well enough, so long as i dont want tabbed windows beyond full screen. ... i might finally end up getting around to XMonad-Layout-Combo or XMonad-Layout-Combinators because of this. ^_^
so, thats the jist of the state of things on day 1 of my 14 day uzbl trial run.
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todo
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in progress.
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2. video download
3. flash cookie purge
!4. open in new tab, in right click menu
7. no script
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complete.
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1. adblock
5. flashblock
6. copy selected text without right click
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