3d ago

small browsers

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:

and this is links:

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:

43 comments

Dillo and NetSurf

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

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

Plan9 mothra
- can you use that on linux?
  
  With some effort I believe so

How about Midori?
- doesn't midori use webkit?
  
  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.

Is suckless surf small enough? https://surf.suckless.org/
- it's webkit behind the curtains, so no

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

Can add chawan to this list.
https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/
- I think I'm in love. That's the best text mode rendering I've seen and I've tried them all.
  
  Same for me. It's frustrating to not see this one getting more popularity.
- Nice one!

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

i used dillo back when i only had old, used laptops
- My wife uses that while I'm away 👍
- 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.
  
  jfc
  i fucking hate the way domain ownership is handled right now
- cool. weird default colors, though
  (for some reason, my instance won't load, so I had to open lemmy.ml to take this snapshot)
  
  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.

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
- i'm not sure. is really a small browser? to me it's falls more into the under construction browser category, like ladybird
  
  Probably not a small browser, no. I just really wanted to plug it tho

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.
- oh, cool! this is the best render of (old) lemmy so far
  (p.s. why do we have to have porn on the homepage)
  
  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.

Dillo?

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.