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Their tagline is "web interface tools which adhere to the unix philosophy".

Uzbl is WebKit, and very little else. Highly script-able and customize-able.

Never heard of it, just tried it. I can see this ending up being my favorite browser, if I can peel off the time to figure out bookmarks. If I understand, the answer is "manage them yourself," which is mostly thrilling if slightly off-putting. I'll try to get to that soon.

I've only recently come across it myself. When I find the time to set up bookmarks and a low-maintenance ad block script I think uzbl may become my favorite browser as well. (Embedding uzbl in emacs would also be quite handy for in-frame web site testing or online reference materials.)

There are samples of each of these (and more), but like many FOSS projects a fair bit of the documentation is incomplete, out-of-date or both.

I love that uzbl adheres to the "unix-philosophy". Very powerful. For example, with uzbl it should be trivial (well, straightforward at least) to generate image thumbnails of web pages or to create an automated functional testing framework.

Uzbl should also be useful for kiosk applications, as you can easily obscure or lock down most of the general-purpose browsing controls.

Uzbl seems to be a really cool project, but I'm stuck on Windows for most of the day.

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