Emacs: Eww Web Browser

How to open a new URL?

Just Alt+x eww again.

How to open a local HTML file?

Alt+x eww-open-file.

How to switch to a real browser?

When in eww, Alt+x eww-browse-with-external-browser 【&】.

How to make emacs always use eww?

Put this in your Emacs Init File:

;; make emacs always use its own browser for opening URL links
(setq browse-url-browser-function 'eww-browse-url)

[see Emacs: Set Default Browser]

How to open URL in new buffer?

Alt+x rename-buffer to rename the first one. Then, call eww again to open a new site.

or, put this in your Emacs Init File:

(when (fboundp 'eww)
  (defun xah-rename-eww-buffer ()
    "Rename `eww-mode' buffer so sites open in new page.
URL `http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/emacs_eww_web_browser.html'
Version 2017-11-10"
    (let (($title (plist-get eww-data :title)))
      (when (eq major-mode 'eww-mode )
        (if $title
            (rename-buffer (concat "eww " $title ) t)
          (rename-buffer "eww" t)))))

  (add-hook 'eww-after-render-hook 'xah-rename-eww-buffer))

Where is cookies and cache location?

It's at ~/.emacs.d/url/.

The location is controlled by the following variables:

url-cookie-file

Default value is "~/.emacs.d/url/cookies"

url-configuration-directory

Default value is "~/.emacs.d/url/"