 So I have been on a never-ending search for the proper web browser. I have been a Firefox user For ever since the beginning of Firefox I've been a Firefox user and it's great for a full featured web browser but I've always wanted something more minimal more privacy oriented and Looking at various minimal web browsers and I've looked at a ton of them. None of them have really been Satisfactory they all have some pretty serious shortcomings, but I came across one the other day that Really impressed me and this is the first one. I've ever launched and started using right away that within a few minutes I thought yes, this is usable everything else that I've tried in the past all the other minimal web browsers I've tried in the past. I opened them up and within a few minutes I find things that are way wrong with them, but this one I don't know I'm impressed with this one I thought I needed to make a video and share this particular web browser with you guys because it's one you guys have probably never heard of it's One I had never heard of until the other day I came across a mention about this particular web browser on reddit and this web browser is called bad wolf now bad wolf is a Minimalist and privacy oriented webkit GTK browser and I've tried other webkit GTK browsers in the past minimal webkit GTK browsers things like Succes's surf browser which is really nice But that particular browser was slow the surf browser if it just had better speed as far as it didn't take Like a day and a half for a web page to load I would probably use surf as my main web browser, but the speed is it's just too bad with surf Qt browser was also originally a webkit GTK browser and then they switched I think to the chromium engine I think now though you can actually compile Qt browser to use Webkit GTK if you still want to use it that way Qt browser though is a fantastic browser But it has some limitations to the big one that most people have is the fact that Qt browser really doesn't have a way To block ads there's no ad blocker plugin that works Some other minimal web browsers I've installed and just very briefly taking a look yet I haven't done anything on the channel with them But because I haven't spent but you know a few minutes at a time in them I've taken a look at vmb taking a look at the min browser I've taken a look at you know a lot of these alternative minimal web browsers But bad wolf is really interesting. It has a very small code base It is written in under 1500 lines of code And of course the 1500 lines of code doesn't include webkit GTK This is just the bad wolf, you know browser itself the skin on top of you know all the webkit GTK stuff It is customizable. It's got some native extensions. It has a really nice interface And you'll see that when I launch it and it does have some nice sensible keyboard shortcuts Those keyboard shortcuts are not Vim shortcuts, so they're not Vim like bindings So that may or may not be a problem for some people The creator of bad wolf though. He says he purposely avoided Doing the vi modal kind of stuff, you know with the key bindings in bad wolf because so many other minimal browsers already do that He was looking for something Not vim like as far as the keyboard commands and everything in bad wolf Which I can respect that when I was looking through the yet history of bad wolf I noticed that this guy has been developing bad wolf for about a year and about a month ago He actually released what is officially called bad wolf one dot zero dot zero So it's now a one dot o release. So I guess this would be the first Non alpha or non beta release, but again, I don't think most people have ever heard about this You know, it's a small project a one-man project And I did notice that bad wolf even though you can grab the source I did notice somebody actually packaged bad wolf for the a u r So if you're on arch linux or any arch linux base distribution You can do a yay dash capital s bad wolf and you can actually install bad wolf directly from the a u r So let me switch over to the desktop And this is the cutal window manager that I'm in today And I needed to log into this particular window manager because I've been spending a lot of time in x-mode add And in exwm here recently and those two particular window managers I have a lot of key bindings that involve both the alt key and the control key Well bad wolf this particular browser has a lot of keyboard shortcuts that involve both the alt key and the control key So I know cutal. I don't think I have any keyboard shortcuts that involve control or alt and cutal Most everything is using the super key for the modifier key. So let me launch bad wolf. I'm on the wrong Screen here, but this is bad wolf by default when you first launch it You have a empty tab this blinding white tab. It says new tab. You also have this tab here It's not really a tab though. This is your downloads screen. Of course. I haven't downloaded anything So this screen is empty as well, but let me go back to the new tab But what's really interesting about this interface is you have two things that you can toggle on and off at will And that includes javascript which is by default toggled off And images which by default is toggled on now. Let's go to a website. So if I went to youtube.com Since javascript is toggled off. I can go ahead and tell you now youtube will never load YouTube requires massive amounts of javascript for it to render properly So you're not going to get youtube.com to load without having javascript turned on So let me turn it on and then i'm going to reload youtube.com And now you see youtube actually loads properly and it loads, you know reasonably quickly I can tell you, you know, if I had done this in the suckless surf browser Uh, youtube takes forever and a day to load. So the speed is is not bad actually with bad wolf Let me turn images off. I know we need javascript Enable to load youtube, but you don't necessarily need images to load I mean you can render the page without images and you know, it's the same page Just no thumbnails or anything if I click images on all of a sudden the images load for us I really like the simple clean user interface here I would prefer it be a little more minimal I would like the tab bar at the top to be toggled on and off You know have that ability to toggle it on and off show and hide when you need it Same thing with the url bar. Although I don't mind the url bar always being shown and I really like the You know clean simple interface. You have the forward and back buttons You can toggle on javascript and images You have a print button over here and then you have this button here that says open new tab And if you click that of course now you get a new blank tab I can close that also in the bottom you have a status bar, of course, but you also have the search Field here and that's the same as if you did it like a control f I can go ahead and talk about some of the keyboard shortcuts if you do control f You automatically go straight to that search field at the bottom there And this page is blinding white. Let's open up a new tab And let's go ahead and talk about the keyboard shortcuts if you want a new tab control t As a keyboard shortcut to get you that new tab then you can do alt and the number of the tab So that would be the second tab. So if I did alt two or is it alt three I think it's going to be three because one is the downloads two is youtube three Is the empty tab the new blank tab And if I wanted to I could go to my website if I did control l I can get into the url field And then I'm going to type https And let's go to distrotube.com. Let's get into a dark website so we can get into something That's not so blinding white and my site here distrotube.com doesn't really require any javascript At least not the main portion of the site. Maybe the forums Require some javascript. I'm not sure on that and you know the speed and everything The rendering of the pages is quite fast. Let's go over to the blog and I'm going to click on an article And how do you zoom in and out because that's a big thing in most web browsers? Sometimes you need to zoom the text in and out for readability Well, you do this by holding the control button and then zooming in and out with the mouse wheel So if I just zoom in with the mouse wheel and zoom back out with the mouse wheel And if you ever want it to set it back to the normal Setting control zero should set it back to the default view setting But let me do a control t to open up a new tab And then I'm going to do alt four to go to that fourth tab that I just opened the new tab And if I did alt d I could delete that tab So remember control t for a new tab and then alt and the number of the tab to go to that tab alt d closes that tab And pretty much that is most of the key bindings you need to know I mean there's a couple of more but they're pretty much not key bindings you would ever use F1 on the keyboard gets you the about information for bad wolf really I've shown you pretty much all the keyboard shortcuts and you have seen everything there is to see as far as the user interface for bad wolf One interesting thing is in a tiling window manager, you know, you don't have a menu system or anything You have to use the keyboard shortcuts for your tiling window manager to close bad wolf So for me super shift c closes any window with focus here in cutal But like if I close that tab and I close that tab, I've closed out all the tabs There's no way to close out the downloads tab. There's no menu system to exit out of you Actually do have to close it out with a keyboard shortcut If you're in a tiling window manager, those of you that are running Traditional desktop environments with floating window managers, of course, you're going to have a close button As part of your your gtk theme or whatever Now one other thing I want to just briefly mention if you do install the bad wolf browser from the AUR One thing I did notice let me open up a terminal here and if I run a man bad wolf The man page is broken. It's broken in one big way You're probably the main reason why you would launch this man page, of course, is to get the key bindings There's one problem though. The key bindings have the descriptions But the bindings for those descriptions are not there There should be a key binding here where it says, for example, closes the current tab Well, I showed you that was alt D. Where is alt D? It didn't make it. So I probably need to file a bug report with the bad wolf developer to let him know that his man page at least Regarding the AUR package is broken. If you need a proper man page though for bad wolf What you can do is go to the bad wolf site And I'm going to link to the site in the show description and if you go to the bad wolf website Um about uh just a third of the way down that page You see powerful and useful and then you see this link that's written in this pinkish text that says Shortcuts and documented click on and documented And you get a web version of the man page for bad wolf that does include the key bindings as well as the description for the key Bindings. So that was just a very brief look at this Rather interesting minimal and privacy oriented browser that is bad wolf. I love The somewhat minimal interface. It could be more minimal for my taste, but it's not bad It's minimal enough for me. I kind of like it. I love the fact that javascript is disabled by default And for me, I would just leave it toggled off except for the websites that I go to where I absolutely have to have Javascript, which for me is really just a couple of websites I visit that absolutely have to have javascript and I have to be on those sites youtube being the most obvious example Will I start using bad wolf as my Daily browser? I might I uh, I probably am at least for a little bit. I'm going to give it a shot for you know, a couple of weeks Because I'll be honest most of the other minimalist browsers that I've tried I didn't make it in on that long. There were just too many paper cuts, you know, too many pain points But bad wolf it's a pretty nice web browser. I mean it it functions like a proper web browser But it just doesn't have all that extra crap That I don't need in those full feature browsers like firefox and chromium and things like that anyway So guys, I urge you to actually check out bad wolf. This is a good web browser Now before I go I need to thank a few special people I need to thank michael gape haplonate corbinian mitchell entropy uk arch 5530 chuck dj donnie dill and george omri paul shon to bias and willy These guys they are the producers of this episode without these guys You wouldn't know about this ultra minimalist Privacy oriented browser that is bad wolf. You wouldn't know about it The show is also supported by each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen All these names you're seeing on the screen right now This is all my supporters over on patreon because this channel is supported by you guys the community You'd like to support my work. You'll find dt over on patreon. All right guys peace