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small browsers (lemmy.eco.br)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months 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)

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months 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.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 4 months 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

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago

My wife uses that while I'm away 👍

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

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

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

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

jfc

i fucking hate the way domain ownership is handled right now

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months 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)

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 months 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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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)

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Is suckless surf small enough? https://surf.suckless.org/

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

it's webkit behind the curtains, so no

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Lynx

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Nice one!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

W3m and elinks come to mind for text only.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Dillo?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

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

#links2gang

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

https://offpunk.net/

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

How about Midori?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

doesn't midori use webkit?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Plan9 mothra

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

can you use that on linux?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

With some effort I believe so

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Dillo and NetSurf

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

i haven't tried it yet but https://offpunk.net/ looks interesting

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

@bunitor My take:

https://asciinema.org/a/cJvXGTiZyjBOfl68zmi5pJbrX.svg

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Link broken when posting from friendica… here it is asciicast

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