Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium(tangled.org)

37 pointsby nerdypepper6 hours ago6 comments

yjftsjthsd-h3 hours ago
> WARNING: Kitty image support (currently only in main branch builds) by its design nature is barelly usable in SSH when brow6el runs on remote host, this feature is usable when brow6el is executed on localhost. On ssh the responsivenes of browser is significantly affected, due to massive data transfers on each frame rendered
But it's fine in the default Sixel?
angeldimitrov943 hours ago
I just don't understand...what is the use case of this? I thought it would be something that cleverly renders text without style in a minimalist-browser sort of way. But this just literally...shows you the web page...in the CLI? I'm confused.
- jadbox2 hours ago
  You could terminal into a remote machine terminal and use a web browser in the tty without needing an X11 windowing support.
- westurner2 hours ago
  I don't think any of these text-based web browsers are actively maintained;
  "Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser" (2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17487552
  browsh-org/browsh: A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh
  "Forking Chrome to render in a terminal" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34547259
  fathyb/carbonyl: Chromium running inside your terminal https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
  chawan: TUI Web Browser https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/
  Ladybird browser may be easier to build a TUI terminal user interface for than other brothers because of Lagom FWIU (LibWeb and LibJs are already decoupled from the UI and rendering)
  - shiomiru39 minutes ago
    I can't speak for the other projects you listed, but at least chawan is actively maintained by yours truly.
tim-projects4 hours ago
I don't like the name. Can suggest renaming to insane browser because this is actually insane in a good way. :)
What happens if you run it in a TTY ? Does it fail to render anything?
zarski3 hours ago
Can Brow6el work as expected within a Docker container?
an hour ago
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leephillips3 hours ago
Why were your projects no longer welcomed at Codeberg?
- jdiff3 hours ago
  Codeberg recently changed policy to not allow primarily AI-authored projects.
  - leephillips3 hours ago
    Oh, I see. Well I won’t be installing this then.
    jdiff2 hours ago
    If you were interested, check out Browsh. It's a similar project but based on Firefox and it's been around for quite some time now.
    GaryBlutoan hour ago
    OK?
- mzs3 hours ago
  "This reporitory [https://tangled.org/janantos.tngl.sh/brow6el] is now the main and only source of truth, previous on Codeberg [https://codeberg.org/janantos/brow6el] is kept for referrence only. I have decided to migrated from Codeberg because of my other projects are not welcomed there anymore and I want to keep my projects together on single platform."
  - leephillips3 hours ago
    Very illuminating.