Conkeror is a keyboard-oriented, highly-customizable, highly-extensible web browser based on Mozilla XULRunner, written mainly in JavaScript, and inspired by exceptional software such as Emacs and vi. Conkeror features a sophisticated keyboard system, allowing users to run commands and interact with content in powerful and novel ways.

You can obtain Conkeror either with git or by downloading a snapshot archive. Note that if you intend to make changes to the Conkeror source code, using Git will be enormously more convenient than using a snapshot, particularly if you may want to …

In this quick-start, we will just run through a list of Conkeror's basic key sequences. If you have experience with other keyboard-oriented software, this may be all you need to get up to speed. For a more paced introduction to Conkeror, start with the tutorial that comes with Conkeror.

Debian includes packages for Conkeror since version 5.0 (Lenny). You can install Conkeror like this 1 as root: apt-get install conkeror conkeror-spawn-process-helper

Conkeror comes with a launcher script for GNU/Linux that simplifies installation with versions of XULRunner that have a GRE registry (2 and earlier). Simply create a symlink from /path/to/conkeror/contrib/run-conkeror to your desired executable location.

May 3, 2016 · NOTE: As it is unlikely that Torbutton is compatible with Conkeror, do not use Conkeror with Tor if you require strong anonymity. Without Torbutton, malicious pages and Tor exit nodes can force Mozilla to leak information about the user and the system.

Much of this is due to the separation of buffer types for security: a special buffer cannot become a content buffer, and a content buffer cannot become a special buffer. It is also worth bearing in mind that single-key alphanumeric bindings are always considered context-based shortcuts in …

Traditionally, Conkeror uses the experimental Mozilla XULRunner as its basis. Installing Conkeror using XULRunner is described in the first part of these instructions. However, many people have reported difficulties with recent versions of XULRunner under Mac OS X.

Your rc is your own script or scripts loaded at startup that you can use to configure Conkeror. The abbreviation rc is derived from the tradition of naming startup scripts with the suffix rc in unix-like platforms. Your conkeror-rc is written in ordinary javascript.

This page is about troubleshooting problems with starting Conkeror, crashes, malfunctioning or other such problems. For problems with content rendering, or unexpected differences between the way a page looks or works in Conkeror versus Firefox, see TroubleshootingContent .