I've been looking for a similar 'embedded' browser myself. I've implemented this on win32 using Delphi/Active-X/Explorer - very simple and renders pages same as Internet Explorer (JavaScript runs etc). It is possible to do this with Mozilla if you don't want explorer. After much googling I came to the conclusion that there was not a perl solution out there for *nix that was -easy- to use. I found a Java solution but I did not spend much time on it.