Next web browser

Next is a keyboard-oriented, extensible web-browser designed for power users. It has familiar key-bindings (Emacs, VI), is fully configurable and extensible in Lisp, and has powerful features for productive professionals.

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

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

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Fast tab switching

Switch easily between your open tabs by 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.

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.

Multiple selection

Commands can accept multiple input, allowing you to quickly perform an operation against multiple tabs.

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.

Getting started

Install Next

Next 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 Next:

• 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.
• Guix: Install with guix install next.

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

If you want to use the Qt Webengine/Blink platform port, you currently have to build it from source.

• Download a Qt Webengine archive here. Once you have extracted it, run the next-pyqt-webengine binary.
• Download a GNU/Linux Debian binary of the Lisp core on our CI system here (you have to download the build artifacts), and run it with ./next.

Quickstart keys

• C-l: Load URL in tab
• M-l: Load URL in a new tab
• C-x b: Switch tab
• C-b: Backwards history
• C-f: Forwards history
• C-x C-c: Quit
• TAB: Complete candidate (in minibuffer)

The symbols represent modifiers:

• C: Control key
• S: Super (Windows key, Command key)
• M: Meta (Alt key, Option key)
• s: Shift key

The following keys exist as special keys:

BACKSPACE, DELETE, ESCAPE , HYPHEN, RETURN, SPACE, TAB, Left, Right, Up, Down

Documentation

For full documentation about Next, how it works, and how to extend it please see the MANUAL.org.

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

Customize and extend Next

Complete customization is possible through the creation of a ~/.config/next/init.lisp file. For more information please see: “Customizing Next” within the MANUAL.org.

Additionally, a document provided in the documents directory named EXTENSION.org is a place for the community to share helpful customizations. To share your own extension, please make a pull request with your new extension appended to EXTENSION.org.

History of changes

Please see the CHANGELOG.org.