small browsers

2 years ago by beleza pura to c/linux

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

eldavi 13 points 2 years ago

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

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UnH1ng3d 32 points 2 years ago

My wife uses that while I'm away 👍

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bunitor 4 points 2 years ago

cool. weird default colors, though

dillo displaying this post and the comment i'm replying to

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

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eldavi 3 points 2 years ago

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.

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cmnybo 12 points 2 years ago

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.

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bunitor 7 points 2 years ago

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

lemmy's homepage on netsurf

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

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JovialSodium 4 points 2 years ago

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.

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bunitor -1 points 2 years ago

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

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cmrss2 11 points 2 years ago

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

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bunitor 7 points 2 years ago

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

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cmrss2 3 points 2 years ago

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

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bunitor 9 points 2 years ago

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

the current thread rendered in servo

(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)

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rimu 10 points 2 years ago path: 0 15385464, hotness: undefined, score: 10, children: 0
CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV 9 points 2 years ago path: 0 15393494, hotness: undefined, score: 9, children: 1
bunitor 2 points 2 years ago

it's webkit behind the curtains, so no

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PushButton 7 points 2 years ago

Lynx

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

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folekaule 6 points 2 years ago

W3m and elinks come to mind for text only.

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wwwgem 6 points 2 years ago path: 0 15388862, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 3
oldfart 1 point 2 years ago

Nice one!

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rimu 1 point 2 years ago

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

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wwwgem 1 point 2 years ago

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

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Mwa 5 points 2 years ago

Dillo?

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mesamunefire 4 points 2 years ago

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

#links2gang

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underscores 4 points 2 years ago

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.

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markstos 3 points 2 years ago

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

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Dirk 2 points 2 years ago

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

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rimu 2 points 2 years ago path: 0 15385177, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 1
mesamunefire 2 points 2 years ago

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

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DasFaultier 2 points 2 years ago path: 0 15408324, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 4
bunitor 0 points 2 years ago

doesn't midori use webkit?

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DasFaultier 2 points 2 years ago

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.

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Yaky 2 points 2 years ago

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

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klu9 1 point 2 years ago

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

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thedeadwalking4242 2 points 2 years ago

Plan9 mothra

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bunitor 1 point 2 years ago

can you use that on linux?

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thedeadwalking4242 1 point 2 years ago

With some effort I believe so

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Puschel_das_Eichhorn 2 points 2 years ago

Dillo and NetSurf

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m33 1 point 2 years ago path: 0 15388963, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 3
bunitor 3 points 2 years ago

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

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oldfart 3 points 2 years ago

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

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M33 1 point 2 years ago

Link broken when posting from friendica
 here it is asciicast

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