Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium

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Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium

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by nerdypepper

angeldimitrov94
81d
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.
1. jadbox
  41d
  You could terminal into a remote machine terminal and use a web browser in the tty without needing an X11 windowing support.
  1. angeldimitrov94
    31d
    Struggling to see the reasoning behind why you would need to do this if you are remoting into a machine, meaning you have a real machine that you can just open a browser in. Seems more like a solution looking for a problem to me.
    There's never been a situation in which I wished I had a browser like this in the CLI.
    There have been situations in which I wish I could just get a simplified text version of any site without the styling, but I never once wished I could see the actual full site in all its glory in the CLI.
    reddit_clone
    21d
2. westurner
  21d
  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)
yjftsjthsd-h
11d
> 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?
1. janantos
  01h
  Yes it is, I am testing it regularily, thats the reason I have implemented tailing rendering support in sixel renderer, to send only part of screen that has changed.
tim-projects
11d
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?
1. janantos
  01h
  If you use yaft in tty it runs just fine except mouse, so you need to use keyboard mouse emulation I have inplemented for these and not only these scenarios.
zarski
11d
Can Brow6el work as expected within a Docker container?
1. janantos
  01h
  Docker is somehow problematic as it breaks somehow pty. but it works in distrobox, which is using containers, so there must be some parameters to make it run in docker. Another idea I had to mitigate it, was running ssh server using supervisord side by side
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leephillips
81d
Why were your projects no longer welcomed at Codeberg?
1. janantos
  01h
  Tbh, I don’t want to be part of codeberg anymore, their community moved away from my believes. And as I have another projects being according them not welcomed there because they are tied to LLM ecosystem. I have prof of concept of AI coding agent entirely written in bash and also near realtime spoken word translation/transcription project using selfhosted Gemma4 and Nvidia Parakeet LLM models. In their latest blog they clearly stated those projects are not welcomed there, so I don’t see the reason to keep my projects there at all, how much I have understanding for their decision and I do believe that LLMs shall be used responsibly I don’t align myself with their community anymore and do not want to be part of it. I am more aligning with Linus Torvalds about LLMs opinions. From now Codeberg community is unpredictable.