Web Browsers

This category covers web browsers.

Browsers

Firefox

Firefox is a graphical web browser.

Installation

# Enable the X11 (X.Org) desktop (XFCE)
services.xserver.enable = true;
services.xserver.desktopManager.xfce.enable = true;

# Enable the Firefox web browser
programs.firefox.enable = true;

Verified Usage

# Open a website in a new window
export DISPLAY=:0
firefox --new-instance https://example.com

# Take a screenshot of a website
firefox --headless --screenshot https://example.com

Links2

Links2 is a text and graphics web browser.

Installation

environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.links2 ];

Verified Usage

# Open a website
links http://example.com

# Dump page contents as text
links -dump http://example.com

w3m

w3m is a text-based web browser.

Installation

environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.w3m ];

Verified Usage

# Open a website in text mode
w3m http://example.com

# Dump page contents as text
w3m -dump http://example.com