Elsurf is an extremely light and simple, fully-compatible, web browser for Elive. Its made from a fork of “surf” (webkit) and it features transparencies directly into your desktop ![]()
Elsurf has many options, see its –help or manpage, you can disable many things like camera/audio, tracking, no cookies, no javascript? etc, run it as you wish.
It runs in a single window, no bars, no buttons, just web, any windows of web to browse internet or local files, you can try with the many included examples like:
for i in /usr/share/doc/elsurf/examples/*html ; do elsurf -ZM "$i" ; done
You can make your own gadgets for your desktop, its simple html !
Cookies
Cookies are saved in your ~/.cache/elsurf/cookies/ directory, each file is assigned to a domain, so you can perfectly erase them manually from your terminal or even edit them, restore, share among computers, etc!
Adblocker
Its featured with an extremely small and simple adblocker and enabled by default, it just block domains, you can edit your own list in ~/.config/elsurf/adblock.txt
Resources
Elsurf:
- One instance: 126-150 mb
- 10 instances: 1320 mb
- CPU at 4.5 % running the synthwave music player
Chrome in app mode:
- One instance: 300-400 mb
- 10 instances: 1100 mb
- CPU at 1.1 % running the synthwave music player
Note: seems like chrome has been improving in resources usage!
IMPORTANT: If you have a medium or low computer I do not suggest to have these gadgets running in your desktop, so since its a browser is a waste of resources, RAM and CPU, but the good thing is that not only “you can”, but also you can create your owns as you wish! ![]()
Do not miss the last part of the video! ![]()