NETSURF(1)

NAME
netsurf - a small fast web browser

SYNOPSIS
netsurf-gtk [options] [url]

DESCRIPTION
netsurf is a lightweight, fast, standards-compliant web browser. This man page only describes how to run the browser.

The command line parameters override any options loaded from the user's Choices file.

In addition to these parameters the standard GTK+ options may be passed.

The options are as follows:

-v  Enable verbose logging.

--http_proxy
    Boolean 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 serif font.

--font_serif
    Family name of the serif 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.

--send_referer
    Boolean controlling whether referrer data should be sent

--animate_images
    Boolean controlling whether images should be animated.

--expire_url
    expire url

--font_default
    Default font.

--ca_bundle
    Certificate authority bundle path.

--ca_path
    Certificate authority 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.

--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.

--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

--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

FILES

$HOME/.config/netsurf/Choices

$HOME/.config/netsurf/Hotlist

SEE ALSO
gtk-options(7)

STANDARDS
December 3, 2014, Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, HTML Living Standard, https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/.

June 7, 2011, World Wide Web Consortium, Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification, http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/.

December 17, 2014, Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, Document Object Model Living Standard, https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/.

AUTHORS
Authorship information for netsurf is available at the project homepage, http://www.netsurf-browser.org/

This manual page was written by Vincent Sanders <vince@netsurf-browser.org>