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

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Post by tombh »

enriquto wrote: post #159

I love text-based browsers, and this is the one whose display looks best (but i would like to disable images/animations). This being a work in progress, the most important feature needed immediately is a boost in performance. I have a very powerful workstation, and just following a link and rendering the next page takes almost a second. (In lynx, w3m and in elinks it is instantaneous.)

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`

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

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Post by tombh »

GoToRO wrote: post #135

Just a heads up: enter https://www.brow.sh:443/ url here http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/lookup

I've been watching this: https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/54ab74be93601eb2f252364829c...

Because yesterday Google Safe Browsing considered this URL: https://html.brow.sh/mail.google.com a phishing attack. Even though the html.brow.sh service is non-interactive, it doesn't even return `` tags, let alone JS.

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

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beefield wrote: post #158

Just wonder what kind of experience one should expect with 2400 bps? (Iridium go unlimited global satellite connection that costs around 135 USD per month. I think Go has some limitations so I do not know how much one would need to hack things around to get ssh terminal working properly)?

This is really the perfect use case for Browsh. I first had the idea for it when I was in the deserts of Ladakh where you'd get around 3kb/s speeds.

So what you need to do is install Browsh on a remote server along with Mosh. Then from your own personal computer you can use the Mosh client to get Browsh working, albeit, quite slowly, in your terminal.

So you don't need to touch Go at all.

Let me know if you want any help, I'd love to get you setup as, like I say, this is precisely what I made Browsh for.

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

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Post by tombh »

joemi wrote: post #134

Neat project. It seems to have trouble rendering text from some text heavy pages. For instance, see the missing characters in the posts here: https://html.brow.sh/https://old.reddit.com/

Yes, I know :/ I'm pretty sure it's related to the issues the terminal client has here: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/42

At least with the terminal client successive frame updates eventually render the text - a luxury we don't have yet with html.brow.sh

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

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Post by tombh »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #107

Tom, RE that Kubernetes Slack artifacts in the video (4:45), this doesn't look like Browsh bug - it's just a new weird trend that happens on Slack/Discord, of people spamming with emoji reactions, often making them spell out something obscene. Browsh handled this very well, IMO (to be honest, it looked better than on a normal browser, because the actual spam content was pixelized).

Hey thanks! :)) Ha ok, then I should have just not mentioned, but its good to know Browsh actually coped well.

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

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Post by tombh »

shp0ngle wrote: post #128

Feedback: For some reason, it maxes out my CPU usage, all 4 cores full speed, on a simple webpage with some light javascript.

Can you identify the process that was causing it? What size was your terminal window. And if possible the `./debug.log` file from having run `browsh -debug` could be useful. Thanks.

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

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Post by tombh »

datalus wrote: post #140

are there any working examples of WebGL? i can't seem to get any on threejs.org to run in Chrome 67 or Firefox 62.0b6

Embarrassingly, I need to remove WebGL from Browsh's features, as WebGL doesn't work in Firefox's headless mode. I certainly saw it working in the early days when I wasn't using Firefox headless in order to debug the injected CSS Browsh uses to render pages.

Sigh, so I best remove 'WebGL' from the homepage :(

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

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Post by tombh »

therealmarv wrote: post #100
tombh wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand your point

Don't get me wrong. Appreciate the project and effort. Well done and amazing. But the only time I use a text based browser is when I have very very bad connection (which happened once or twice e.g. in an airplane). But would be better for comparing links2 vs. mosh+remote browsh. Nevertheless I don't want to keep running some vm (even when it's small) just for my very seldom text browser sessions ;) I will keep browsh…

For sure, I totally agree with this. The fact is I don't even use Browsh that much as I have the luxury of fast and cheap Internet.

But I have certainly experienced bad internet and felt that craving to be connected to the modern web, which is so hard when all you have is a 3kb/s connection.

So that is what Browsh is for, those people of the world, and there millions, who have slow and/or expensive internet.

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

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Post by asdojasdosadsa »

tombh wrote: 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…

Out of pure curiosity, how much are you profiting currently out of it?
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