Its design is mainly patterned after the text editor GNU Emacs, with some influence from other programs, including vi.

[2] It was originally written by Shawn Betts, the primary author of keyboard-driven ratpoison and Stumpwm tiling window managers.

[3] Firefox forks like Pale Moon and Waterfox continue to bundle XULRunner and can be used to run Conkeror.

[5] By pressing a key (f, for "follow", by default), Conkeror brings up a small, numbered label beside every element within the current view[6] on the page that can be clicked.

The following are some examples of default key bindings:[8] (key bindings are case sensitive[9]) Like Emacs, Conkeror makes use of buffers in order to allow multiple pages to remain open at the same time (similar to tabs in traditional browsers).