small browsers
from bunitor@lemmy.eco.br to linux@lemmy.ml on 01 Mar 04:29
https://lemmy.eco.br/post/11250840

please dump any small browsers you know about, i’d like to try them out

the two i can think of are emacs’s eww and links (text mode). eww has been surprisingly useful, even without js support and extremely barebones html rendering

this is eww:

emacs window with eww displaying linux@l.ml’s header

and this is links:

terminal window with links displaying linux@l.ml’s header

sadly, neither is able to login to lemmy, but I was able to login to mastodon through brutaldon

EDIT: ooh, i forgot about lynx (not links). also command-line. it managed to successfully login to lemmy:

terminal window with lynx displaying this post before this edit

#linux

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eldavi@lemmy.ml on 01 Mar 04:46 next collapse

i used dillo back when i only had old, used laptops

UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world on 01 Mar 04:56 next collapse

My wife uses that while I’m away 👍

bunitor@lemmy.eco.br on 01 Mar 05:00 next collapse

cool. weird default colors, though

<img alt="dillo displaying this post and the comment i’m replying to" src="https://lemmy.eco.br/pictrs/image/4c46d01d-3e44-4388-9f6c-a1948286893f.webp">

(for some reason, my instance won’t load, so I had to open lemmy.ml to take this snapshot)

eldavi@lemmy.ml on 01 Mar 05:44 collapse

i took it for a spin also since i hadn’t touched it in 20 years; the colors are indeed odd, as well as the scaling.

bbbhltz@beehaw.org on 01 Mar 08:16 collapse

That’s not the Dillo webpage anymore. There is a whole history behind this but the link is now this dillo-browser.github.io

The dev was at FOSDEM a few weeks ago too www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFJp8JDg8Yg

I think Dillo is a great project. The whole thing fits on a diskette. Crazy.

bunitor@lemmy.eco.br on 01 Mar 12:03 collapse

jfc

i fucking hate the way domain ownership is handled right now

folekaule@lemmy.world on 01 Mar 04:52 next collapse

W3m and elinks come to mind for text only.

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de on 01 Mar 04:58 next collapse

There’s NetSurf, which is really lightweight for a graphical browser. There’s also Falkon and Otter Browser. They are more capable, but use more resources.

bunitor@lemmy.eco.br on 01 Mar 05:10 collapse

oh, cool! this is the best render of (old) lemmy so far

<img alt="lemmy’s homepage on netsurf" src="https://lemmy.eco.br/pictrs/image/c7a7d6ea-e333-4012-9ae8-8214236c70ef.webp">

(p.s. why do we have to have porn on the homepage)

JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org on 01 Mar 05:55 collapse

Best I can tell post blur, those posts are marked NSFW. You can choose to hide those posts. Assuming you’re signed in anyway, I’m not familiar enough with that interface to tell.

bunitor@lemmy.eco.br on 01 Mar 11:54 collapse

i was signed in, but it’s still kinda fucked up that showing nsfw posts is opt-out. also, they’re not even blurred in the old interface

cmrss2@aussie.zone on 01 Mar 05:14 next collapse

Does Servo count? It was originally a Mozilla project to write a web engine in Rust, then got transferred to The Linux Foundation when Mozilla laid off a bunch of its staff

bunitor@lemmy.eco.br on 01 Mar 05:18 collapse

i’m not sure. is really a small browser? to me it’s falls more into the under construction browser category, like ladybird

cmrss2@aussie.zone on 01 Mar 05:21 collapse

Probably not a small browser, no. I just really wanted to plug it tho

bunitor@lemmy.eco.br on 01 Mar 05:33 collapse

makes sense

btw, servo’s rendering of lemmy is getting really good. there’s some missing stuff (and i couldn’t get replying to work), but it’s really cool to see

<img alt="the current thread rendered in servo" src="https://lemmy.eco.br/pictrs/image/85718e9a-295c-4b04-90db-d1aba3871fef.webp">

(though we can definitely discard servo as a small browser. it’s eating up almost 700 megabytes of ram rn, compared to netsurf’s 100 megs)

mesamunefire@piefed.social on 01 Mar 07:22 next collapse

Try old.lemmy.world or piefed, both I believe you can login with links2

#links2gang

rimu@piefed.social on 01 Mar 07:22 next collapse

offpunk is very different from all others I've tried. Very small.

https://offpunk.net/

mesamunefire@piefed.social on 01 Mar 07:24 next collapse

Interesting! I'll have to give that a shot sometime.

[deleted] on 01 Mar 08:17 collapse

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rimu@piefed.social on 01 Mar 07:47 next collapse

Try https://piefed.social on lynx, I tried pretty hard to make it usable in a text-mode browser.

underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 01 Mar 12:13 next collapse

They’re not browsers, but if you want lemmy in the terminal there’s Neon Modem Overdrive, which also handles Discourse forums and some other sites. For emacs there’s lem.el.

Mwa@lemm.ee on 01 Mar 12:14 next collapse

Dillo?

wwwgem@lemmy.ml on 01 Mar 13:27 next collapse

Can add chawan to this list.
sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/

oldfart@lemm.ee on 01 Mar 21:35 next collapse

Nice one!

rimu@piefed.social on 02 Mar 01:06 collapse

I think I'm in love. That's the best text mode rendering I've seen and I've tried them all.

wwwgem@lemmy.ml on 02 Mar 04:08 collapse

Same for me. It’s frustrating to not see this one getting more popularity.

m33@theprancingpony.in on 01 Mar 13:35 next collapse

@bunitor My take:

oldfart@lemm.ee on 01 Mar 21:33 next collapse

HTTP/1.1+ broke the convenience of raw socket browsing!

bunitor@lemmy.eco.br on 02 Mar 19:13 next collapse

you should report a bug to friendica bc your link didn’t reach me on lemmy

M33@lemmy.sdf.org on 02 Mar 19:44 collapse

Link broken when posting from friendica… here it is <img alt="asciicast" src="https://asciinema.org/a/cJvXGTiZyjBOfl68zmi5pJbrX.svg">

CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world on 01 Mar 18:28 next collapse

Is suckless surf small enough? surf.suckless.org

bunitor@lemmy.eco.br on 01 Mar 23:24 collapse

it’s webkit behind the curtains, so no

PushButton@lemmy.world on 01 Mar 19:10 next collapse

Lynx

It’s the best by far. The configuration can be tricky, but it worth it.

DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works on 02 Mar 15:34 next collapse

How about Midori?

bunitor@lemmy.eco.br on 02 Mar 15:46 collapse

doesn’t midori use webkit?

DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works on 02 Mar 15:55 next collapse

I’m… not sure, I’d have to look that up. I only know that it was the only browser I found in my Linux distro repos that I was able to run on my Atom 2GB RAM netbook from 15 years ago.

Yaky@slrpnk.net on 02 Mar 22:33 collapse

IIRC the Windows version of Midori was the only browser that was light enough to watch Netflix on my ~2005 laptop.

klu9@lemmy.ca on 08 Mar 02:23 collapse

Used Webkit until 2019, then bought out and now based on Firefox/Gecko.

thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world on 02 Mar 16:08 next collapse

Plan9 mothra

bunitor@lemmy.eco.br on 02 Mar 22:28 collapse

can you use that on linux?

thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world on 02 Mar 23:27 collapse

With some effort I believe so

markstos@lemmy.world on 02 Mar 16:23 next collapse

Qutebrowser is small in market share but not in resource use.

Puschel_das_Eichhorn@lemm.ee on 02 Mar 20:11 next collapse

Dillo and NetSurf

cypherpunks@lemmy.ml on 02 Mar 22:58 next collapse

i haven’t tried it yet but offpunk.net looks interesting

Dirk@lemmy.ml on 03 Mar 19:05 collapse

Have a look at Luakit (but please don’t try to configure it – this is absurd!)