/nyxt

Nyxt - the internet on your terms.

Primary LanguageCommon Lisp

Nyxt browser

Nyxt is a keyboard-oriented, infinitely extensible web browser designed for power users. Conceptually inspired by Emacs and Vim, it has familiar key-bindings (Emacs, vi, CUA), and is fully configurable in Lisp.

If you like Nyxt and if you want to help future development, please support us on Patreon, or give us a star, thank you!

Attention: Nyxt is under active development. Feel free to report bugs, instabilities or feature wishes.


Homepage | Downloads | Articles | Developer Manual | Freenode IRC: #nyxt

Fast tab switching

Switch easily between your open tabs via fuzzy search. If you are looking for https://www.example.com, you could type in ele, exa, epl, or any other matching series of letters.

Multiple selection

Commands can accept multiple inputs, allowing you to quickly perform an operation against multiple objects. In the example below we search for penguins, and only open up links that have the text “animal” within them.

Powerful bookmarks

Bookmark a page with tags. Search bookmarks with compound queries. Capture more data about your bookmarks, and group and wrangle them in any way you like.

Multi tab search

Search multiple tabs at the same time, and view all the results in a single window. Jump quickly through your open tabs to find what you need.

History as a tree

History is represented as a tree that you can traverse. Smarter than the “forwards-backwards” abstraction found in other browsers, the tree makes sure you never lose track of where you’ve been.

For a complete list of features, please see the manual.

Getting started

Install Nyxt

Nyxt supports GNU/Linux, macOS, and Guix with engine support for WebKit and WebEngine/Blink.

Please see the downloads page for pre-built binaries. Some operating systems provide packages for Nyxt:

  • Alpine
  • Debian and derivatives (Ubuntu, LinuxMint), for Debian >= 10 (Buster).
  • MacPorts
  • Arch Linux AUR (and the -git PKGBUILD)
  • Nix: Install with nix-env --install next. (Replace next with nyxt when the package gets updated to 2.0.)
  • Guix: Install with guix install nyxt.

To perform an installation from source, please see the developer readme.

Documentation & Customization

For full documentation about Nyxt, how it works, and how to extend it please see the embedded help. To get started, run the help command (C-space help).

If you want to help with development or build Nyxt from scratch, read the developer’s documentation at documents/README.org.

History of changes

Please see the CHANGELOG.org.