Emerald-browser (a radical new web browser, working prototype exists, BSD licensed (I could change this to GPL))

Goals

Not bothersome (person shouldn't be bothered by anything)
Full control
To be fully written in C += 2



 * Uses the same engine as Chrome, with QWebEngine

Ubuntu and fedora have packages


emerald-browser [number of terminals, default 1]


C += 2 compiler is called "g+". It's a wrapper for g++

Usage

g+ foo.cpp -O3 -Wall -Wextra -o foo


Example C += 2 program


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main
puts("Hello world")

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(No need for #includes)


g+ is written in Ruby. It could be ported to Crystal

TODO

1. Make g+ work better

It doesn't support classes, structs or namespaces currently

You can always #include C++ or C files though

C += 2 is, and always will be a PREPROCESSOR FOR MODERN C++. IT CAN DO ANYTHING C++ CAN DO AND MORE.



Some things I want to implement



These should be a single unary option buton, like what GNOME 40 or Chrome has.
In that, there should be many options. Maybe even things like Update System
There should be a close button for panes.
The source code should be tidied up, but please don't clutter it with too much OOP.
Currently, everything gets googled. There could be a cache of some kind.
Everything you would want to do on your computer, should be doable in this program. Currently, it makes a full-screen widget.

If there could be a Compiz cube for tabs, that would be really interesting.


There was a program that converted Chrome tabs to a filesystem extension. Maybe   something like this could be added.


Port to Mac.

Port to Windows??? No Terminal then

Port to FreeBSD

Would need to work for certain in X and Wayland

open should be improved


To open tabs, do


open [query1] [query2?]... (number of Google results per query to show in panes)


Example

open 'ruby talk' 'ruby docs' 3

That would open 3 google results for ruby talk, and 3 google results for ruby docs



Googler is used to search google. Googler is automatically installed.

Googler is written in python


* This browser should be as fast or faster than Chrome.


* Downloads don't currently work
* Fullscreen doesn't currently work
* Opening pages in new tabs doesn't currently work
* You currently can't close tabs, only open them
* The simplest way to close the browser currently is killall emerald-browser
* Add signal and slot to close program when window closes. This doesn't currently happen.






Back and forward buttons should be added, somewhere.

Currently, you can right click, and do navigation

A way to type in addresses manually should be added.


Currently, you can do echo 'open [full url]' > /tmp/emerald-browser-fifo

Doing echo open /home/' > /tmp/emerald-browser-fifo should work



* Multiple instances needs to work


* Want installation to be super simple. Download a binary


* Let's get a fully functional browser, THEN care about packaging



If there could be a flip 3d for tabs, that would be cool



There's an interesting cover flow widget for Qt. Maybe that could be useful.

Are you interested in collaborating?

If you can help in any way, please send me a message :)

Sincerely,

Gregory David Evan Cohen