diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/uzbl/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/uzbl/default.nix
index bb46ef054d35..c23a0009e947 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/uzbl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/uzbl/default.nix
@@ -2,17 +2,15 @@ a :
 let 
   fetchurl = a.fetchurl;
 
-  version = a.lib.attrByPath ["version"] "2009.08.08" a; 
+  s = import ./src-for-default.nix;
+
   buildInputs = with a; [
     libsoup pkgconfig webkit gtk makeWrapper
   ];
 in
 rec {
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://github.com/Dieterbe/uzbl/tarball/${version}";
-    sha256 = "06f0ae1e34bc0b0f77feeba5f832cdc2349ac04cbc7a5a5b9e7e5ff086a9c497";
-    name = "uzbl-master-${version}.tar.gz";
-  };
+  src = (a.fetchGitFromSrcInfo s) + "/";
+  inherit (s) name;
 
   inherit buildInputs;
   configureFlags = [];
@@ -33,7 +31,6 @@ rec {
 
   installFlags = "PREFIX=$out";
       
-  name = "uzbl-" + version;
   meta = {
     description = "Tiny externally controllable webkit browser";
     maintainers = [a.lib.maintainers.raskin];
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/uzbl/src-for-default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/uzbl/src-for-default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cb6876bb9adb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/uzbl/src-for-default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+rec {
+   version="d2d73ad463f3d9f1c673d37457af159947b3faac";
+   name="uzbl-stable-d2d73ad463f3d9f1c673d37457af159947b3faac";
+   hash="7b162ad46445b4080c0cf2ac57c777186d4a9a58979499fe5556e6e855d4e53c";
+   rev="d2d73ad463f3d9f1c673d37457af159947b3faac";
+   url="git://github.com/Dieterbe/uzbl.git";
+  
+  
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/uzbl/src-info-for-default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/uzbl/src-info-for-default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..61ac0e15294b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/uzbl/src-info-for-default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+  repoUrl = "git://github.com/Dieterbe/uzbl.git";
+  baseName = "uzbl-stable";
+  method = "fetchgit";
+  rev = "origin/master";
+}
+