uzbl, the return - day 2

uzbl the return. part2.

so... it's day 2 of my 14 day uzbl experiment.
bit of a lethargic lazy day. struggling to kick both body and brain into gear after a poor sleep. so i'm not expecting any intensive geeking.

discovered adblock isnt working to satasfactory level... not sure if that's my fault, inherent inadequacy in the script, need of some subscription block list, or a duff script link, or what...

been having a couple moments getting momentarily infuriated by reaching for old firefox shortcuts, or from just not being familiar enough with the interface.

using a tabbed layout i can switch to in the window manager [xmonad] rather than tabs in the browser itself, has changed my useage style quite a bit. ... remains to be seen how this will play out when i get on with some work where i'd have previously had several ,ulti-tab browser tiels and a couple other app tiles, on the same monitor, how i'll adjust... or if i will refuse to adjust, and instead adjust my window manager, to include layout combo/combinator.

some of the config syntax still baffles me a little bit, and i've started to notice that python sluggishness... maybe one day someone will re-write it in C or some other speedy language.

ok ok... this is all starting to sound rather negative. teething problems were expected, hence the decision to dedicate two weeks to the transition. ... and my feelings toward uzbl are anything but negative. i'm loving it already, despite it's (and my) shortcomings.


though i'm not on ubuntu, this page did help keep me straight on a couple points.
http://kagashe.blogspot.com/2009/06/uzbl-new-usable-browser-on-ubuntu-904.html

for one, setting my:

XDG_DATA_HOME=~/.local/share

which i was willfully negligent on, postponing sorting it out for later. well later has passed now. :) this should make tweakages much easier... especially once i do a pile of cp -r from the examples to ~/.local/share and ~.config/uzbl (er... maybe not that last one, already made a pile of changes to that config.... maybe a diff to check)

i notice my todo list is growing rather fast. i hope to have all issues resolved long before the two weeks is up.

i was also shown luakit and jumanji, another couple of similarly lightweight n highly configurable browsers. oh yeah... we're a long way from kansas* here baby, yeah!

* firefox, etc.

normally i would install them, and try them out too... but i am committed... uzbl or bust. ^_^

even though i said yesterday i was going to stick with the default controls... i'm more than curious to see what other configurations peeps have come up with.

that's one of the greatest beauties and boons to going for this level of, what i increasingly call "unixy goodness".

at this level of unixy goodness... with that gnu|linuxy freedom, everyone's hooking up their configurations in their own unique innovativeness and creativity and imaginativeness

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todo
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in progress.
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1. adblock (various interesting possiblity being explored, n learning much)
2. video download
3. flash cookie purge
!4. open in new tab, in right click menu
5. flashblock
7. no script
8. pdfs open in zathura (or whatever)
9. flash movies get watched in mplayer.

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complete.
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6. copy selected text without right click