SliTaz Web Browser

TazWeb Browser

TazWeb is a radically simple and very light web browser providing a single window with a small -toolbar and a contextual menu, but without any menubar or tabs. -Navigation is done with a right click anywhere in the browser window or from the toolbar. -It can also handle bookmarks in a personal home page, provide a source view mode and zoom and -printing functions. -TazWeb lets you quickly search the web through a search entry and Google. -This documentation file is always accessible from the right-hand side of the toolbar.

TazWeb is a modern, radically simple and very light web browser providing all +needed functions for daily browsing on the internet. TazWeb is aware of users +privacy, it handle cookies but will NOT store any passwords or other user info.

The browser's fast, very fast and small, the binary is about 24 Kb and uses the Webkit engine -for page rendering and therefore supports all the latest web standards as well as Javascript and -Flash animations or videos.

TazWeb provides a single window with a small toolbar and a contextual +menu, but without any menubar or tabs. Navigation is done with a right click +anywhere in the browser window or from the toolbar. TazWeb lets you quickly +search the web through a search entry redirecting to DuckDuck Go secure search +engine. This documentation file is always accessible from the right-click +menu.

The browser's fast, very fast and small, the binary is about 30 Kb and +uses the WebkitGTK engine for page rendering and therefore supports all the +latest web standards as well as Javascript and Flash animations or videos.

+ +

Major features

+ +

Cookie support
Download support
Text based config file
Search engine entry box
Bookmarks manager
Print, including to pdf
Rich contextual menu
Private browsing

History

The SliTaz Web Browser was created for the needs of TazPanel which is the SliTaz administration -and packages manager panel and made with the latest technologies such as HTML 5 and CSS 3 for the -graphical user interface. -The content is powered by CGI scripts and the preferred web server is Busybox httpd.

The SliTaz Web Browser was created for the needs of TazPanel which is +the SliTaz administration and packages manager panel and made with the +latest technologies such as HTML 5 and CSS 3 for the graphical user interface. +The content is powered by CGI scripts and the preferred web server is +Busybox httpd.

Security and personal data

Security and private browsing

TazWeb is a very secure browser and doesn't store any personal data, therefore no sessions, -cookies or history files are created. -So your websites settings will not be saved and you will have to enter login information each time -you restart the browser (by the way websites can track you with cookies!).

TazWeb is a very secure browser and doesn't store any personal data, +therefore no sessions, passwords or history files are created but it will +handle cookies by default. +So your websites cookies will save your peer site settings but logins +and passwords will not be saved and you will have to enter login information +each time you restart the browser (by the way websites can track you +with cookies!).

+ +

TazWeb provide a private browsing mode who will disable cookies, on-disk +session and global history. You can use the command line option to start +TazWeb in private mode:

+ +

$ tazweb --private

Kiosk mode

@@ -50,31 +75,39 @@ The Kiosk mode will start TazWeb in fullscreen. It will not allow users to bookmark a page, download anything or open a URL in a new window.

-$ tazweb --kiosk
-

$ tazweb --kiosk

Raw and minimal mode

+ +

TazWeb have a very modular interface and everything can be disbaled +to provide a raw webkit window, no toolbar our menu. It provide also +a command line option to have a small (640x480) window suitable for tiny +web applications. The option --notoolbar and --nomenu can be used to +hide toolbar and menu, the --raw option will disbale both:

+ +

$ tazweb --raw

Home Page and bookmarks

TazWeb handles a home page located in your system wide standard configuration directory, the -path is: /usr/share/webhome.

TazWeb handles a home page located in your system wide standard +configuration directory, the path is: /usr/share/webhome.

The bookmark.txt file is a simple text document with, by default, a list of links. -You can edit this file with you favorite editor and add bookmark entries or use the Tazweb right -click menu. -At first start TazWeb will create and copy your personal bookmarks file to your config +

The bookmark.txt file is a simple text document with, by default, a +list of links. You can edit this file with you favorite editor and add +bookmark entries or use the Tazweb right click menu. At first start +TazWeb will create and copy your personal bookmarks file to your config directory.

Bookmarks can be handled by TazWeb and you can easily add a bookmark to your home page with the -right click menu item: “Add a bookmark”. +

Bookmarks can be handled by TazWeb and you can easily add a bookmark +to your home page with the right click menu item: “Add a bookmark”. Tazweb also lets you manage your bookmarks via a nifty CGI web interface.

Note: You will find the default bookmarks.txt in: /usr/share/tazweb or you can get an original -copy with the following command in a terminal:

Note: You will find the default bookmarks.txt in: /usr/share/tazweb +or you can get an original copy with the following command in a terminal:

-$ cp -f /usr/share/tazweb/bookmarks.html $HOME/.config/tazweb
+$ cp -f /usr/share/tazweb/bookmarks.txt $HOME/.config/tazweb

@@ -125,7 +158,7 @@ Type=Application Name=SliTaz SCN Icon=slitaz-menu -Exec=tazweb http://scn.slitaz.org/ +Exec=tazweb --notoolbar http://scn.slitaz.org/ diff -r a41749316ea9 -r 0a8ab376898d lib/helper.sh --- a/lib/helper.sh Thu Mar 16 13:34:09 2017 +0100 +++ b/lib/helper.sh Thu Mar 16 15:09:36 2017 +0100 @@ -35,25 +35,20 @@ $title - + -

$title

$1

EOT } # HTML 5 footer: html_footer content html_footer() { cat < +

@@ -118,13 +113,11 @@ html_cookies() { { html_header "$(gettext 'Cookies')" - echo '

'
+		echo ''
 
-		IFS="|"
 		while read line; do
 			echo "${line#\#HttpOnly_}"
 		done < ${cookies_txt}
-		unset IFS
 
 		echo ''
 		num=$(wc -l < $cookies_txt)
diff -r a41749316ea9 -r 0a8ab376898d po/fr.po
--- a/po/fr.po	Thu Mar 16 13:34:09 2017 +0100
+++ b/po/fr.po	Thu Mar 16 15:09:36 2017 +0100
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 "Project-Id-Version: TazWeb 1.6.4\n"
 "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
 "POT-Creation-Date: 2017-03-16 13:23+0100\n"
-"PO-Revision-Date: 2017-03-16 13:27+0100\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: 2017-03-16 14:40+0100\n"
 "Last-Translator: Christophe Lincoln \n"
 "Language-Team: French\n"
 "Language: fr\n"
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@
 #: lib/helper.sh:79
 msgid "%d bookmark"
 msgid_plural "%d bookmarks"
-msgstr[0] "marque page"
-msgstr[1] "marques pages"
+msgstr[0] "%d marque page"
+msgstr[1] "%d marques pages"
 
 #: lib/helper.sh:91
 msgid "TazWeb Bookmarks"
@@ -83,8 +83,8 @@
 #: lib/helper.sh:130
 msgid "%d cookie"
 msgid_plural "%d cookies"
-msgstr[0] "Voir le cookie"
-msgstr[1] "Voir les cookies"
+msgstr[0] "%d cookie"
+msgstr[1] "%d cookies"
 
 #: data/tazweb.desktop.in:4
 msgid "TazWeb Browser"