You have to extend pretty much everything to add the features you need. It is done by writing scripts that extend the core.

Uzbl is a lightweight webkit browser following the UNIX philosophy – to do one thing and do it well.

• very minimal graphical interface. You only see what you need
• what is not browsing, is not in uzbl. Things like url changing, loading/saving of bookmarks, saving history, downloads, are handled through external scripts that you write
• controllable through various means such as fifo and socket files, stdin, keyboard and more
  advanced, customizable keyboard interface with support for modes, modkeys, multichars, variables (keywords) etc. (eg you
• can tweak the interface to be vim-like, emacs-like or any-other-program-like)
• focus on plaintext storage for your data and configs in simple, parseable formats
• Uzbl keeps it simple, and puts you in charge.

Source: The Uzbl project website

Uzbl is open source. So next time you need a webbrowser component in one of your projects remember Uzbl before hacking anything yourself.

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