theWeb

Web Browser based on CEF and Qt

⚠️ This project is discontinued, and may have security holes. Use at your own risk.

Screenshots

Important Stuff

• theWeb still has many features missing. This includes
  • File downloads
  • File pickers don't work correctly
  • Browsing History
  • Bookmarks
  • Clearing Browsing Data theWeb should support them soon, though. :)
• theWeb is still in BETA. Some things might not work.

Build

If you're on Arch Linux, you can find theWeb as a package on the AUR. Otherwise, to build theWeb,

1. First, grab a copy of the Chromium Embedded Framework. The minimal distribution is recommended. Right now, theWeb is using the 2785 branch.
2. Extract the resulting tarball somewhere
3. Copy libcef.so found in the Release folder of the tarball to the location where you put theWeb's sources
4. Run the following commands to build theWeb

qmake
make

Install

1. Create a directory in /opt/theWeb
2. Copy theweb to /opt/theWeb
3. Copy all the files from the CEF tarball/Release to /opt/theWeb
4. Copy all the files from the CEF tarball/Resources to /opt/theWeb
5. Copy libcef_dll_wrapper.a to /opt/theWeb
6. Give /opt/theWeb/chrome-sandbox the SUID permission, and make sure that ownership of this file is set to root.

   chmod 4755 "/opt/theWeb/chrome-sandbox"
   

7. Copy theweb.desktop to your Applications folder (usually /usr/share/applications)
8. Copy theweb-execscript to your binaries folder (usually /usr/bin) and rename it theweb
9. Copy icon.svg to your icons folder (usually /usr/share/icons)

Starting

• theWeb puts an entry in your desktop environment's applications so it can be launched from the menu.
• Alternatively, you can run 'theweb' to start up theWeb.

Packages

theWeb is available in Arch Linux on the AUR under the name "theweb." This also pulls in all the required dependencies for theWeb, and the recommended Chromium Embedded Framework build so it should work properly.