Velocity

A fully featured web browser built using web technologies.

About

The initial inspiration for Velocity came from other proxies such as Hypertabs and Rammerhead Browser. After using these proxies issues arose that broke the illusion of using a web browser which velocity attempts to fix.

Features

Sleek Firefox inspired UI
Proper link handling
Script injection for native functions

Internal URL's

about:newTab - New tab page
about:preferences - Preferences page
about:history - History page
about:blank - Blank document
view-source:* - View source page

Commands

Velocity implements many commands that web browsers commonly use in order to do certain functions. Due to the limitations of JavaScript many of these have to be adapted but listed below is all commands that have been implemented so far.

Ctrl + R - Reload current tab
Ctrl + E - Search
Ctrl + U - View page source
Ctrl + Shift + I - Open developer tools
Alt + ArrowLeft - Navigate backwards in history
Alt + ArrowRight - Navigate forward in history
Ctrl + D - Bookmark current page
Ctrl + Shift + B - Toggle bookmarks bar
Ctrl + H - Open history

Adapted commands

Alt + T - Open new tab (originally Ctrl + T)
Alt + W - Close current tab (originally Ctrl + W)

API

Velocity exposes basic APIs in order to allow developers to easily create customizations and implement it into their own projects. To learn more, check out the API Docs.

Deployment

Requirements

NodeJS version >=18

git clone https://github.com/cohenerickson/Velocity.git
cd Velocity
npm i
npm run build
npm start

Roadmap

Velocity is still in it's early stages but if it gains enough interest among the community there are quite a few other features that I would like to implement, listed below are a few of these.

Bookmarklet support
Extension support
And more...

glitch128/Velocity