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 Links.

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  1. Pale Moon icon
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    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.

    207 Pale Moon alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
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  2. Falkon icon
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    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).

    198 Falkon alternatives

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    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    • Snapcraft
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  3. Lynx icon
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    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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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • Xfce
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  4. qutebrowser icon
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    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.

    137 qutebrowser alternatives

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    • Flathub
    • Python
    • WebKit
    • Qt
    • Flatpak
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  5. Links icon
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    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
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  6. NetSurf icon
     42 likes

    NetSurf is a free, open source web browser written in C and released under the GPLv2 license. NetSurf has its own layout and rendering engine entirely written from scratch. It is small and capable.

    139 NetSurf alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • Xfce
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  7. Surf icon
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    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.

    89 Surf alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  8. 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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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
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  9. Nyxt browser icon
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    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.

    12 Nyxt browser alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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    minimal suckless web browser based on chromium.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  11. uzbl icon
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    Uzbl is a lightweight webkit browser following the UNIX philosophy - to do one thing and do it well.

    97 uzbl alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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  12. FixBrowser icon
     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.

    53 FixBrowser alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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