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  • [browser] New kid in town?

    From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Thu Feb 13 11:10:51 2025
    FixBrowser
    <https://www.fixbrowser.org/>
    |
    | FixBrowser is a truly lightweight web browser created from scratch. It
    | intentionally doesn't support JavaScript to make things faster and
    | much less resource intensive. Instead it contains an updated set of
    | scripts that fix and improve various websites.
    .

    Is it worth a look at all?
    --
    3. Hitchhiker 31: (18) At least, if it wasn't real, it did support them,
    and as that is what sofas are supposed to do, this, by any test that
    mattered, was a real sofa.
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  • From Caden Kray@ck1998@yahoo.com to tilde.meta on Thu Feb 13 11:09:20 2025
    yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> writes:

    FixBrowser
    <https://www.fixbrowser.org/>
    |
    | FixBrowser is a truly lightweight web browser created from scratch. It
    | intentionally doesn't support JavaScript to make things faster and
    | much less resource intensive. Instead it contains an updated set of
    | scripts that fix and improve various websites.
    .

    Is it worth a look at all?

    Probably not. It's not that you can't visit most interesting websites.
    Most interesting websites don't really use Javascript. But it's not
    just Javascript. It's CSS, too.

    But that's not the main problem. The main problem is that you can't
    solely use this browser. You'd use this browser and, say, Firefox. But
    then your system is already set up, say, to load Firefox when you click
    on a URL. Pretty soon you forget the new kid in town and he's left to
    his devices in the depths of your file system.
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  • From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Thu Feb 13 15:03:25 2025
    But that's not the main problem. The main problem is that you can't
    solely use this browser. You'd use this browser and, say, Firefox. But
    then your system is already set up, say, to load Firefox when you click
    on a URL. Pretty soon you forget the new kid in town and he's left to
    his devices in the depths of your file system.

    Chawan is nice, but I'm still using Elinks and W3m more often.

    <https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=54300#p54300>

    I never managed to build Elinks with JS or Sixel support and Elinks
    still butchers massively the stuff I write using orgmode. Chawan is the
    first terminal browser that renders that stuff in a way that comes near
    to how it looks in GUI-browsers:

    <https://web.archive.org/web/20250104152517if_/https://yeti.tilde.institute/tmp/chawan/20250104-152317__chawan__orgbabel_notes.png>

    But on a typical day I still proofread those notes in FF.

    Maybe someday Dillo will be the middle ground (good enough CSS, no JS).
    --
    I do not bite, I just want to play.
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  • From Andrew Singleton@singletona082@ctrl-c.club to tilde.meta on Thu Feb 13 10:13:47 2025
    On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:03:25 +0042
    yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:

    But that's not the main problem. The main problem is that you can't
    solely use this browser. You'd use this browser and, say, Firefox.
    But then your system is already set up, say, to load Firefox when
    you click on a URL. Pretty soon you forget the new kid in town and
    he's left to his devices in the depths of your file system.

    Chawan is nice, but I'm still using Elinks and W3m more often.

    <https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=54300#p54300>

    I keep lynks and w3m on hand. Don't use either much, but I keep them on
    hand because 'why not?'

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