Vieb is a free and open source web browser for Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is a Vim inspired electron based browser. It comes with ad-blocker, custom themes, auto complete, custom user-agent, AMP protection, custom webRTC, interface scaling, zoom, mouse support, spellcheck, download, cookie management, window splitting, config file, Vim compatible options support, tab and more.
How to Install Vieb Web Browser on Ubuntu Linux
Vieb is available as a portable AppImage, native DEB and flatpak package files. Download the latest version of Vieb in .AppImage file format from the above download link and save in your Downloads folder. Now open the terminal application (ctrl+alt+t) and run below command to start Vieb browser. Here “Vieb-9.0.0.AppImage” is the downloaded file name and “Downloads” is the path. You can change below commands based on your file name and Download path.
cd Downloads
sudo chmod +x ~ Vieb-9.0.0.AppImage
./Vieb-9.0.0.AppImage
Install Vieb via DEB:
Download Vieb in .deb file format from the above top download link and save in your Downloads folder. Here “vieb_9.0.0_amd64.deb” is the downloaded file name. You can change below command based on your downloaded file name.
sudo apt install ./Downloads/vieb_9.0.0_amd64.deb
Install Vieb via Flatpak:
First install flatpak and flathub on your system and restart your system after the installation. Now open the terminal app and run below Vieb Browser flatpak install command.
flatpak install flathub dev.vieb.Vieb
You can open Vieb Browser flatpak using this command.
flatpak run dev.vieb.Vieb
And uninstall it via
sudo flatpak uninstall dev.vieb.Vieb
That’s it.
