NETSURF(1)

💖 NETSURF — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the General Commands Manual, and it's all about netsurf. Welcome to the group chat, pull up a chair, we're doing this. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

netsurf — a small fast web browser

no cap, that's the whole vibe. small. fast. browser. slay.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

netsurf [options] [url]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This manual page documents briefly the netsurf browser.

netsurf is a small fast web browser. This man page only describes how to run the browser. That's it, that's the whole job — running it. (iykyk 💅)

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (-). periodt.

Heads up: the command line parameters override any options loaded from the user's Choices file. so yeah, whatever you type here wins. main character energy fr fr.

A summary of options is included below. 💖

• -v — Enable verbose logging. (it talks. a lot. we love a yapper.)
• --http_proxy — Bboolean indicating if the http proxy is being used.
• --http_proxy_host — The http proxy host.
• --http_proxy_port — The http proxy port.
• --http_proxy_auth — The authentication scheme for the http proxy.
• --http_proxy_auth_user — The authentication schemes user.
• --http_proxy_auth_pass — The authentication schemes password.
• --font_size — The default font size to use.
• --font_min_size — The minimum font size to use.
• --font_sans — Family name of the sans serrif font.
• --font_serif — Family name of the serrif font.
• --font_mono — Family name of the monospace font.
• --font_cursive — Family name of the cursive font.
• --font_fantasy — Family name of the fantasy font.
• --accept_language — Languages to accept.
• --accept_charset — Character set to accept
• --memory_cache_size — Maximum memory cache size.
• --disc_cache_age — Maximum disc cache size.
• --block_advertisements — Boolean to enable ad blocking.
• --minimum_gif_delay — Minimum time between gif frames
• --send_referer — Boolean controlling whether referer data should be sent
• --animate_images — Boolean controlling whether images should be animated.
• --expire_url — expire url
• --font_default — Default font.
• --ca_bundle — ca bundle
• --ca_path — ca path
• --cookie_file — cookie file
• --cookie_jar — cookie jar
• --homepage_url — homepage url
• --search_url_bar — search url bar
• --search_provider — search provider
• --url_suggestion — url suggestion
• --window_x — The X co-ordinate of the initial window.
• --window_y — The Y co-ordinate of the initial window.
• --window_width — The width of the initial window.
• --window_height — The height of the initial window.
• --window_screen_width — window screen width
• --window_screen_height — window screen height
• --toolbar_status_size — toolbar status size
• --scale — Initial scale factor.
• --incremental_reflow — Boolean controlling whether incremental reflow is performed.
• --min_reflow_period — Minimum time between incremental reflows
• --core_select_menu — core select menu
• --max_fetchers — max fetchers
• --max_fetchers_per_host — max fetchers per host
• --max_cached_fetch_handles — max cached fetch handles
• --suppress_curl_debug — suppress curl debug
• --target_blank — target blank
• --button_2_tab — button 2 tab
• --margin_top — margin top
• --margin_bottom — margin bottom
• --margin_left — margin left
• --margin_right — margin right
• --export_scale — export scale
• --suppress_images — suppress images
• --remove_backgrounds — remove backgrounds
• --enable_loosening — enable loosening
• --enable_PDF_compression — enable PDF compression
• --enable_PDF_password — enable PDF_password
• --gui_colour_bg_1 — gui colour bg_1
• --gui_colour_fg_1 — gui colour fg_1
• --gui_colour_fg_2 — gui colour fg_2
• --sys_colour_ActiveBorder — Override CSS sys_colour_ActiveBorder colour.
• --sys_colour_ActiveCaption — Override CSS sys_colour_ActiveCaption colour.
• --sys_colour_AppWorkspace — Override CSS sys_colour_AppWorkspace colour.
• --sys_colour_Background — Override CSS sys_colour_Background colour.
• --sys_colour_ButtonFace — Override CSS sys_colour_ButtonFace colour.
• --sys_colour_ButtonHighlight — Override CSS sys_colour_ButtonHighlight colour.
• --sys_colour_ButtonShadow — Override CSS sys_colour_ButtonShadow colour.
• --sys_colour_ButtonText — Override CSS sys_colour_ButtonText colour.
• --sys_colour_CaptionText — Override CSS sys_colour_CaptionText colour.
• --sys_colour_GrayText — Override CSS sys_colour_GrayText colour.
• --sys_colour_Highlight — Override CSS sys_colour_Highlight colour.
• --sys_colour_HighlightText — Override CSS sys_colour_HighlightText colour.
• --sys_colour_InactiveBorder — Override CSS sys_colour_InactiveBorder colour.
• --sys_colour_InactiveCaption — Override CSS sys_colour_InactiveCaption colour.
• --sys_colour_InactiveCaptionText — Override CSS sys_colour_InactiveCaptionText colour.
• --sys_colour_InfoBackground — Override CSS sys_colour_InfoBackground colour.
• --sys_colour_InfoText — Override CSS sys_colour_InfoText colour.
• --sys_colour_Menu — Override CSS sys_colour_Menu colour.
• --sys_colour_MenuText — Override CSS sys_colour_MenuText colour.
• --sys_colour_Scrollbar — Override CSS sys_colour_Scrollbar colour.
• --sys_colour_ThreeDDarkShadow — Override CSS sys_colour_ThreeDDarkShadow colour.
• --sys_colour_ThreeDFace — Override CSS sys_colour_ThreeDFace colour.
• --sys_colour_ThreeDHighlight — Override CSS sys_colour_ThreeDHighlight colour.
• --sys_colour_ThreeDLightShadow — Override CSS sys_colour_ThreeDLightShadow colour.
• --sys_colour_ThreeDShadow — Override CSS sys_colour_ThreeDShadow colour.
• --sys_colour_Window — Override CSS sys_colour_Window colour.
• --sys_colour_WindowFrame — Override CSS sys_colour_WindowFrame colour.
• --sys_colour_WindowText — Override CSS sys_colour_WindowText colour.
• --render_resample — render resample
• --downloads_clear — downloads clear
• --request_overwrite — request overwrite
• --downloads_directory — downloads directory
• --url_file — url file
• --show_single_tab — Force tabs to always be show.
• --button_type — button type
• --disable_popups — disable popups
• --disable_plugins — disable plugins
• --history_age — history age
• --hover_urls — hover urls
• --focus_new — focus new
• --new_blank — new blank
• --hotlist_path — hotlist path
• --source_tab — source tab
• --current_theme — current theme

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

netsurf was written by NetSurf Developers <netsurf-dev@netsurf-browser.org>.

This manual page was written by Vincent Sanders <vince@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

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okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 🍓✨ and for the cute little sign-off: this came out of the General Commands Manual, dated April 19, 2012, and the source/version line at the bottom was the NETSURF(1) footer. iconic. obsessed. bye 💅💖🦋