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David Delassus edited this page May 1, 2011 · 10 revisions

Features

Cream-Browser is a light web browser using the library GTK+. Its interface is the same as Vimperator (a famous Firefox plugin to use it like the text editor : Vim).

  • Modules using GModule : every modules manage one or more protocols, they are used by Cream-Browser to load URL.
  • UNIX socket : You can control Cream-Browser via the command-line using a UNIX socket.
  • Lua configuration.

Building

Getting Cream-Browser

Clone the git repository :

$ git clone git://github.com/linkdd/cream-browser.git
$ git checkout unstable # Because the master branch is currently depecreated

Or clone directly the unstable branch :

$ git clone -b unstable git://github.com/linkdd/cream-browser.git

Building Cream-Browser

Run ./configure --help to see every possible options.

$ ./configure
$ make

NB: If you want to build Cream-Browser with another compiler (maybe clang ?), just do : CC=clang ./configure

Install / Uninstall

Just do : make install for installing and make uninstall for uninstalling.

NB: DESTDIR is correctly supported.

Configuration

Because it uses lua, Cream-Browser is highly configurable.
Read the HOWTOConfiguration” for more informations.

Help and support

This wiki is a good place to start.

You can also report any issues on the bug tracker.

You may join the IRC channel #wmfs @ irc.freenode.org

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