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

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

35 points by nerdypepper 5 hours ago | 11 comments

> 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?

angeldimitrov94 1 hour 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.

jadbox 1 hour ago | |

You could terminal into a remote machine terminal and use a web browser in the tty without needing an X11 windowing support.

westurner 44 minutes 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)

tim-projects 2 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?

zarski 2 hours ago |

Can Brow6el work as expected within a Docker container?

leephillips 2 hours ago |

Why were your projects no longer welcomed at Codeberg?

jdiff 2 hours ago | |

Codeberg recently changed policy to not allow primarily AI-authored projects.

leephillips 2 hours ago | | |

Oh, I see. Well I won’t be installing this then.

mzs 1 hour 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."

leephillips 1 hour ago | | |

Very illuminating.