small browsers

[bunitor@lemmy.eco.br]

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

[eldavi@lemmy.ml]

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

[folekaule@lemmy.world]

W3m and elinks come to mind for text only.

[Guest]

My wife uses that while I'm away

[cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de]

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]

cool. weird default colors, though

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

[bunitor@lemmy.eco.br]

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

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

[cmrss2@aussie.zone]

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]

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]

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

[bunitor@lemmy.eco.br]

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

(though we can definitely discard servo as a small browser. it's eating up almost 700 megabytes of ram rn)

[eldavi@lemmy.ml]

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.

[Guest]

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.

[rimu@piefed.social]

offpunk is very different from all others I've tried

https://offpunk.net/

[mesamunefire@piefed.social]

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

#links2gang

[mesamunefire@piefed.social]

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

[rimu@piefed.social]

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

[Guest]

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.

[Guest]

Dev is on fedi too

[bunitor@lemmy.eco.br]

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