[HN Gopher] Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser ___________________________________________________________________ Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser Author : definetheword Score : 148 points Date : 2020-11-17 20:58 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.brow.sh) (TXT) w3m dump (www.brow.sh) | soheil wrote: | It seems to be incredibly slow which kind of defeats the purpose | of having a text-based browser to begin with. I'm not sure, but | it looks like it's taking the output of a headless Firefox and | turning it into ascii. If that's the case I'd rather stick with | something like Lynx, etc. | fathead_glacier wrote: | The point is when you have a connection with limited bandwidth. | In such cases you can host browsh in the cloud and connect to | it with ssh/mosh. You get a much better experience than text | based browsers at a limited bandwidth. | | It's great for such cases - I use it when hiking / working away | from good internet. | soheil wrote: | In that case it'd be interesting to see a text-based VNC that | works system-wide not just as a browser. | ChrisArchitect wrote: | this is not new, (2018) please | | see some previous discussion | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17487552 | definetheword wrote: | Looks like the author had to take some of the services | temporarily offline. If you use Brow.sh, consider donating! | | " Browsh is currently maintained and funded by one person. If | you'd like to see Browsh continue to help those with slow and/or | expensive Internet, please consider donating. " | geoffeg wrote: | This is really interesting, I'll have to play around it. I've | been browsing news sites with "links" a lot more lately as it | usually just gets me the content I want and it does so very fast. | No ads, no popups, no JS - just the content. I could achieve the | same thing with noscript and a few other extensions but those | generally still aren't as fast and simple as links. | throwaway201103 wrote: | It's a startling example of how fast the web would be if it | didn't have so much bloat. | trollied wrote: | It's good to see terminal-based browsers are still being | developed. | | I used to use w3m and lynx back in the day, and found them to be | very useful at times (such as only having a GPRS signal available | - makes browsing on a "full fat" browser impossible). Paired with | screen (though I guess mosh would be a good option these days) to | enable a resumable session in case the network dropped, of | course. | timdorr wrote: | Note that this isn't a "true" terminal-based browser. It's | built on a WebExtension running in Firefox that renders out the | DOM as text to a Go-based CLI client. It's not a browser engine | running in your terminal, it's more of a VNC over TTY. | trollied wrote: | Ah, noted. | | Must check and see if w3m and lynx have evolved to cope with | the modern JavaScript web! | Hfdlmsh wrote: | w3m hasn't, thank goodness. | simcop2387 wrote: | Elinks is the only one close, but last I tried it there | were still issues | SoSoRoCoCo wrote: | Isn't it more like a TTY mode of VNC more apt? E.g., | rendering the X commands as ASCII? | nchase wrote: | last time I tried this it was great on my laptop, but because it | uses Firefox in the background for rendering, it brought my t2 | small instance to its knees. | | I wonder if they've done anything clever to make it more | efficient since then? | javier10e6 wrote: | Must check. In my console only Raspberry-pi I use elinks to | browse and scrape web info. | enriquto wrote: | Elinks is a hauntingly good software. I'm a bit sad that it's | not actively developed, but I find solace in the thought that | it is already a nearly perfect crystal that cannot be | substantially improved upon. | dang wrote: | If curious see also | | 2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21630423 (a bit) | | 2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17487552 (a lot) | Zhyl wrote: | If people are looking for an actual modern take on text based | browsing, old refer them to the work of Igor Chubin. | curl https://v2.wttr.in/London curl | https://cheat.sh/rsync | | With a supported terminal: curl | https://v3.wttr.in | | And also: https://github.com/chubin/awesome- | console-services ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-11-17 23:00 UTC)