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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:

emacs window with eww displaying linux@l.ml's header

and this is links:

terminal window with links displaying linux@l.ml's header

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:

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in reply to beleza pura

i used dillo back when i only had old, used laptops
in reply to eldavi

cool. weird default colors, though

dillo displaying this post and the comment i'm replying to

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

in reply to beleza pura

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.
in reply to beleza pura

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.
in reply to cmnybo

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

lemmy's homepage on netsurf

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

in reply to beleza pura

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.
in reply to JovialSodium

Filtered word: nsfw

in reply to beleza pura

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
in reply to cmrss2

i'm not sure. is really a small browser? to me it's falls more into the under construction browser category, like ladybird
in reply to beleza pura

Probably not a small browser, no. I just really wanted to plug it tho
in reply to cmrss2

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

the current thread rendered in servo

(though we can definitely discard servo as a small browser. it's eating up almost 700 megabytes of ram rn, compared to netsurf's 100 megs)

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in reply to beleza pura

offpunk is very different from all others I've tried. Very small.

offpunk.net/

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in reply to Rimu

Interesting! I'll have to give that a shot sometime.
in reply to beleza pura

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

#links2gang

in reply to beleza pura

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

jfc

i fucking hate the way domain ownership is handled right now

in reply to beleza pura

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.
in reply to www-gem

I think I'm in love. That's the best text mode rendering I've seen and I've tried them all.
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in reply to Rimu

Same for me. It's frustrating to not see this one getting more popularity.
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in reply to beleza pura

Lynx

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

in reply to beleza pura

How about Midori?
in reply to beleza pura

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.
in reply to DasFaultier

IIRC the Windows version of Midori was the only browser that was light enough to watch Netflix on my ~2005 laptop.
in reply to beleza pura

Used Webkit until 2019, then bought out and now based on Firefox/Gecko.
in reply to beleza pura

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