There's something absolutely British about this 1 min segment of the showcase demo: https://youtu.be/zqAoBD62gvo?t=235
Ha :D
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Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#292that's pretty awesome. Anyone here knows how I could install this in termux on my android?
I haven't really made it clear enough in the docs yet, but Browsh is meant to be run on a remote server and then accessed over SSH/Mosh or the HTML service. So there's not much advantage to overcoming the hurdles to getting running on Android. You should just SSH or better yet Mosh to access a remote version of Browsh.
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#293Seems like it only looks for the 32bit FF binaries on windows so I can't run it sadly. Even tried copying over the 64 bit to the location, but I guess as expected got a reference pointer error.
Follow this issue: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/32
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
Browsh is really aimed at people with slow and/or expensive Internet that would benefit with having the main browser engine running remotely. You then access the output of Browsh via either SSH/Mosh or HTML serivice. But nevertheless you might like Browsh's monochrome toggle: `ALT+m`
I like colors, my problem is mostly the sluggishness. I follow a link and I have to wait a while, without any feedback, until the new page is ready. There is no reason for these delays (from the point of view of the user). If I am interested in text-only browsing, the other browsers offer a much more user-friendly experience.
I'd be interested to know if Browsh really is more sluggish than other text-based browsers, in my experience it's certainly on par. Also Browsh does provide feedback in the bottom left, just like most browser do, when a link is clicked.
But Browsh isn't designed to give faster browsing for people that already have good internet, it's designed to offer complete access to the modern web for users on slow and/or expensive internet.
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#295Suggestion: Make the Debian depend on firefox | firefox-esr . Currently, it's not possible to install on Debian stable due to that distribution not shipping a package named firefox , only one called firefox-esr . [edit]: Ah, I notice now that the firefox in stable is too old anyway. Oh, well, never mind then :-)
Ah yeah, thanks for pointing that out. I've added `firefox-esr` anyway, for the day that it gets upgraded past 57.
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#296You might want to either increase the quality of your JPEG encoding or switch to a different format (GIF might work well at the sizes you're rendering). The compression artifacts from JPEG are very visible on solid-coloured areas: https://i.imgur.com/CcS7gL6.png
Yeah, I agree, I need to play with that. The trouble is, those last few percentages of improved quality often double the Kb weight of a page!
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#297Well, it works as expected https://html.brow.sh/http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
I don't think randomly truncated sentences were expected: This is a motherfuc And it's fuckin
Yeah, there's still some improvements to made for sure. I actually pushed a little fix in v1.3.2 that should address this.
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#298Really cool to see how far this has come since it was Texttop. It reminds me of the txt-web app I created based on my html2text golang pkg. It takes a different (simpler and less sophisticated) approach- bottom up, no fancy rendering: https://txt.gigawatt.io/jaytaylor.com (Site source code: https://jaytaylor.com/txt-web ) Powered by the go html2text pkg: https://jaytaylor.com/html2text
Nice! Very much in the same spirit :)
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#299$ 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.
In my case it generated SIGSEGV and the "Connection to brow.sh" was closed. The more interesting that my gnome-terminal still receives/prints some codes. When I hit enter, it tries to execute them! https://ibb.co/buhqE8 and (ENTER) https://ibb.co/itFz7T Does anyone of you know the mechanism behind it? EDIT: Does anyone of you know how to use it to type into terminal "sudo su -"?
This should be fixed in v1.3.2
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#300Mind blown how accurate this is, I've sent you some BTC as token of appreciation even though I do not have any application for what you've built right now. A lot of work has gone into this and it shows. edit: it's so good that I got confused about which window I was looking at and tried to click links with the mouse :)
Thank you very much indeed.