surf

Resources

surf is a simple web browser based on WebKit/GTK. It is able to display websites and follow links. It supports the XEmbed protocol which makes it possible to embed it in another application. Furthermore, one can point surf to another URI by setting its XProperties.

Installation

USE flags

USE flags for www-client/surf A simple web browser based on WebKit/GTK+

`savedconfig`	Without a saved config.h, this package depends on net-misc/curl and x11-terms/st for a default download mechanism
`tabbed`	Install surf-open.sh script for running surf in x11-misc/tabbed

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Preferably, you'll want to enable savedconfig USE flag and save your customized configuration file to /etc/portage/savedconfig/www-client/surf-2.0 for later editing pleasure.

root #euse --enable savedconfig

Emerge

Install www-client/surf:

root #emerge --ask www-client/surf

Configuration

As stated previously, the main surf configuration file is the /etc/portage/savedconfig/www-client/surf-2.0 file and after each change, surf needs to be recompiled for any changes to take effect.

Patches and additional features

There are many user-created patches available from the official site that greatly extend the functionality of surf.

Tabbed browsing

The x11-misc/tabbed program can be used with surf for a simple tabbed browsing experience.

A basic set-up:

user $tabbed surf -e

To achieve a similar behavior to Firefox or Chromium where upon closing the last tab, the browser exits, use:

user $tabbed -c surf -e