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Which is the best browser to use for emacs?


Asked by Caden Harrison on Dec 03, 2021 Browser information



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Indeed,
Firemacs (firefox add-on) provides some Emacs-like key bindings for Firefox. GhostText can be used in combination with the MELPA package atomic-chrome to allow you to edit text areas in a similar way to Edit with Emacs above, though with some advantages, namely:
And, Emacs is a file manager ( M-x dired ): Emacs can read news, mail, and RSS feeds ( M-x gnus ): You can even play tetris in Emacs ( M-x tetris ): You might see now why some people consider Emacs to be not merely a text editor but almost a complete operating system.
Moreover,
The input on Emacs is reflected to the browser instantly and continuously. You can use both the browser and Emacs at the same time. They are updated to the same content bi-directionally. You can associate the mode based on the URL. e.g. gfm-mode for github.com, TextileMode for redmine, etc.
Next,
EmacsWebBrowser – a toy browser that piggybacks onto font-lock EmacsXWidgets – The xwidget branch of Emacs has webkit integration, so you can have a browser inside an Emacs window. WebKit – Running full feature WebKit browser in Emacs, base on X11/EPC/ PyQt 5, don’t need modified any code of Emacs like EmacsXWidgets.