 Conkeror web browser running on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 | |
| Developer(s) | Shawn Betts, John J. Foerch, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 1.0.4[1]
/ November 29, 2017 |
| Written in | JavaScript |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | XULRunner |
| Type | Web browser |
| License | GNU GPL, GNU LGPL and MPL |
| Website | conkeror |
Conkeror is a Mozilla-based web browser designed to be navigated primarily by a computer keyboard. Its design is mainly patterned after the text editor GNU Emacs, with some influence from other programs, including vi.[2]
It was originally written by Shawn Betts, the primary author of keyboard-driven ratpoison and Stumpwm tiling window managers. Formerly an extension for the Mozilla Firefox browser, it is now developed for XULRunner as a stand-alone application. Since Firefox 52 ESR (September 2018), when the last official Mozilla browser that supported XULRunner reached end-of-life, there is no officially-supported browser from Mozilla for Conkeror to be based on.[3] Firefox forks like Pale Moon and Waterfox continue to bundle XULRunner and can be used to run Conkeror.[4]
Conkeror is released under the same set of free software licenses as Mozilla: the GNU General Public License, the GNU Lesser General Public License, and the Mozilla Public License.
- ^ Release as 1.0.4. Conkeror repository.
- ^ "Conkeror home page". Archived from the original on 2016-10-03.
Conkeror is a keyboard-oriented, highly-customizable, highly-extensible web browser based on Mozilla XULRunner, written mainly in JavaScript, and inspired by exceptional software such as Emacs and vi.
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Conkeror was originally written for Xulrunner, which was deprecated by Mozilla a couple of years ago. It has continued to work on Firefox until the release of Firefox 57 "Quantum", which disabled support for traditional extensions and also removed many APIs that conkeror currently requires. Firefox 52 ESR is still based on Gecko, but it reached end of life on September 5 2018, to be replaced by a Quantum-based release (60). That means there will be no more officially supported browser from Mozilla on which to run Conkeror. As modern web browsers have a large attack surface, this is bad if you have any concerns about security.
- ^ Beckert, Axel (2019-03-02). "Public Git Hosting - conkeror.git/commit". repo.or.cz. Retrieved 2020-02-17.