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Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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that's beautiful, where can we find this cool CSS file?

from a quick peek at the GH repo, https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/blob/master/webext/asse... and the JS in the surrounding extension code?

thanks! I couldn't find it

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Can it be made not to show WebGL, embedded video, and so forth? I enjoy a very serene internet using w3m set to monochrome, with mouse and images turned off. Every now and then it's necessary to use a graphical browser, and it's the sensory equivalent of being woken up by a toddler at 5:30 on Christmas morning.

No offense, but why don’t you just continue to use w3m?

None taken, and I daresay I will. But just as a Chrome user might be open to trying Firefox, I'm open to trying other text mode browsers.

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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post #240

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Check again :)

The bitcoin one! Woaah, thank you so much :)

No, thank you. That must have been a very long and hard slog to get this to work as well as it does and unfortunately this is the only way that I have to show my appreciation of that. (Been there, done that.)

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Some of you may have seen this before under its previous incarnation of "Texttop". Then it was just a hack, but I got some great feedback, so I've spent most of the last 12 months turning it into something serious. It's morphed into more than a mere TTY gimmick. That UNIX philosophy of text being the "universal interface" has somewhat unexpectedly risen to the forefront, such that Browsh is now essentially a text bro…

> I'd be interested in any opinions here about how to financially support this project. At the very least I'd just love to somehow make this my job.

One of the cases where developers still use text based browsers is in attempting to check accessibility of websites. For many large enterprises, there's a legal or contractual requirement to ensure a certain level of accessibility for users with disabilities.

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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post #2

Some of you may have seen this before under its previous incarnation of "Texttop". Then it was just a hack, but I got some great feedback, so I've spent most of the last 12 months turning it into something serious. It's morphed into more than a mere TTY gimmick. That UNIX philosophy of text being the "universal interface" has somewhat unexpectedly risen to the forefront, such that Browsh is now essentially a text bro…

> I'd be interested in any opinions here about how to financially support this project. At the very least I'd just love to somehow make this my job. One of the cases where developers still use text based browsers is in attempting to check accessibility of websites. For many large enterprises, there's a legal or contractual requirement to ensure a certain level of accessibility for users with disabilities.

Nice thought, but it doesn't seem to be that kind of textual browser. Unless it really relies on accessibility to work at all.

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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post #219

that's pretty awesome. Anyone here knows how I could install this in termux on my android?

I tried it this morning (lineageOS). Got the arm binary from github, `chmod +x`-ed it on my computer and scp:ed it over to my phone. Ran the binary and got a quick flash of the screen and a `exit status 1`.

Have not looked into it more than that. Since `browsh` depends on headless firefox, which is not in the termux default repository (it seems), I guess it won't work because termux does not have access to the firefox system app, if that even shits with the headless-functionality. (but here I'm just guessing, a work around may be available)

Would be cool to see working though.

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Which of the ARM downloads work on android?

I also would find an Android version really helpful. Will save a ton of data when roaming and will probably perform better in poor connectivity regions (only 2G and no 3G/4G). Would be great to know how to get this on an Android device.

As I said elsewhere in this discussion thread:

I tried it this morning (lineageOS). Got the arm binary from github, `chmod +x`-ed it on my computer and scp:ed it over to my phone. Ran the binary and got a quick flash of the screen and a `exit status 1` [in termux].

Have not looked into it more than that. Since `browsh` depends on headless firefox, which is not in the termux default repository (it seems), I guess it won't work because termux does not have access to the firefox system app, if that even shits with the headless-functionality. (but here I'm just guessing, a work around may be available)

Would be cool to see working though.

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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post #163

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> Also, I'd be interested in any opinions here about how to financially support this project. At the very least I'd just love to somehow make this my job. I think before you can answer that question you have to figure out if there are enough geeks like you who think this is a useful enough tool to run / use regularly. They'll likely pay you $. Alternately, find use case where even just a few users / companies would p…

Thanks for your advice, it's really helpful. I agree, I think it has a large gimmick factor, for which I don't think there's a huge amount of $ (though it does help spread the word). You have a good point about finding a niche in a large company. As others have mentioned this looks like it would be to do with endeavours out in the field so to speak, where the Internet is slow and/or expensive. So eg; military or ship…

Add links to Patreon, PayPal, and Bitcoin right on the home page.

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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$ ssh brow.sh All of Browsh's servers are currently busy. Please try again soon. Connection to brow.sh closed. Seems like a cool way to do a demo for something that's a bit painful to install on macOS (would love to see $ brew install browsh). I'll have to give it another look once the HN effect has died down.

I found that the docker version was the easiest to get running on Mac. It's just `docker run -it browsh/browsh`, and it downloads and runs everything automatically.

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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post #2

Some of you may have seen this before under its previous incarnation of "Texttop". Then it was just a hack, but I got some great feedback, so I've spent most of the last 12 months turning it into something serious. It's morphed into more than a mere TTY gimmick. That UNIX philosophy of text being the "universal interface" has somewhat unexpectedly risen to the forefront, such that Browsh is now essentially a text bro…

> I'd be interested in any opinions here about how to financially support this project. At the very least I'd just love to somehow make this my job. One of the cases where developers still use text based browsers is in attempting to check accessibility of websites. For many large enterprises, there's a legal or contractual requirement to ensure a certain level of accessibility for users with disabilities.

It can also work for general usability testing: after testing my personal site, I realized that with the graphical fuzzing that this offers, even I couldn't identify what my site's main navigation buttons (made in CSS, no less!) said or whether they were even links. This let me see graphic through the lens of people that cannot see graphics well, so yay!
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