luakit AlternativesWeb Browsers and other similar apps like luakit

luakit is described as 'Fast, light and simple to use micro-browser framework exensible by Lua using the WebKit web content engine and the GTK+ toolkit' and is a Web Browser in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to luakit for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and KDE Plasma apps. The best luakit alternative is Pale Moon, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like luakit are Falkon, Lynx, qutebrowser and NetSurf.

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  1. Pale Moon icon

    Pale Moon

     401 likes

    This open-source Goanna-based browser for Windows, Linux, Mac, and FreeBSD offers customization, security, and privacy. Forked from Firefox, it's optimized for modern processors, ad-free, and supports unique extensions, community-backed. Comes with a functional status bar, supports NPAPI plugins.

    196 Pale Moon alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    • Pale Moon is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to luakit.

    • Pale Moon is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to luakit.

    • Pale Moon is Free and Open Sourceluakit is also Free and Open Source
    • Pale Moon is Customizable, Privacy focused and Security-focusedluakit is not according to our users
  2. Falkon icon

    Falkon

     171 likes

    Falkon, formerly QupZilla, is a QtWebEngine based cross-platform web browser.

    It aims to be a lightweight web browser available through all major platforms.

    Falkon has all standard functions you expect from a web browser. It includes bookmarks, history (both also in sidebar).

    188 Falkon alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    • Snapcraft
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  4. Lynx icon

    Lynx

     125 likes

    Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) browser for users on Unix, VMS, and other platforms running cursor-addressable, character-cell terminals or emulators. That includes vt100 terminals, other character-cell displays, and vt100 emulators such as Kermit or Procomm...

    12 Lynx alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • Xfce
    Lynx on Windows.
     
  5. qutebrowser icon

    qutebrowser

     52 likes

    An actively developed, keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI, inspired by other browsers/addons like dwb and Vimperator/Pentadactyl. It’s based on Python, PyQt5 and QtWebKit and free software, licensed under the GPL.

    130 qutebrowser alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Python
    • WebKit
    • Qt
    • Flatpak
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  6. NetSurf icon

    NetSurf

     43 likes

    NetSurf is a free, open source web browser. It is written in C and released under the GNU Public Licence version 2. NetSurf has its own layout and rendering engine entirely written from scratch. It is small and capable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • Xfce
    NetSurf screenshot 1
     
  7. Links icon

    Links

     93 likes

    Links is a text mode web browser, released under GPL. Links2 has the ability to display graphics.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    Links screenshot 1
     
  9. Tunnel Browser icon

    Tunnel Browser

     4 likes

    Tunnel is a simplistic, minimalist web browser based on the principle that even if you don't use the internet very often, using Tunnel is probably still not a very good idea. It is one of the premier browsers for downloading other browsers, continuing the longlasting legacy...

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    • Linux
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  10. Surf icon

    Surf

     11 likes

    surf is a simple web browser based on WebKit2/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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. Nyxt browser icon

    Nyxt browser

     10 likes

    Nyxt is a new type of web browser for power users. It's built from the ground-up to be completely customizable. Out of the box Nyxt ships with tens of features that allow you to quickly analayze, navigate, and extract information from the Internet.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  12. Ebrowser icon

    Ebrowser

     4 likes

    minimal suckless web browser based on chromium.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  13. FixBrowser icon

    FixBrowser

     1 like

    FixBrowser is a truly lightweight web browser created from scratch. It intentionally doesn't support JavaScript to make things faster and much less resource intensive. Instead it contains an updated set of scripts that fix and improve various websites.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    FixBrowser screenshot 1
     
  14. uzbl icon

    uzbl

     31 likes

    Uzbl is a lightweight webkit browser following the UNIX philosophy - to do one thing and do it well.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    WebInspector
     
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