Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser

Post by RF_Savage » Wed, Jan 03, 2024, 8:49 AM UTC

niutech wrote: post #80

heads wrote: post #65

The world of low spec hardware really does need faster, lighter browsers. Too many times now have I configured an SBC, RPi, or even a laptop that’s just a few years old and been disappointed that, while everything else is wonderful and fast and smooth looking, it is browser performance that is the one thing holding me back. I am resigned to the fact that some of my requirements really do mean I need a Ryzen 7 with 16…

Check out more lightweight web browsers: NetSurf, Pale Moon, K-Meleon on Goanna, Otter Browser, Ultralight, as well as terminal apps: Carbonyl, Browsh, Links (it has a graphical mode too).

Post by necovek » Wed, Jan 03, 2024, 9:01 AM UTC

ajot wrote: post #90

rodarima wrote: post #69

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I would recommend not opening suspicious pages in any browser at all. If you don't have the choice, then maybe download it with curl(1) and then inspect it with hexdump(1) or more(1), so you can see the content before sending it to an HTML parser.

Hey, nice to see you here Mr Stallman, thank you for all the hard work all these years :)

Post by bArray » Wed, Jan 03, 2024, 9:45 AM UTC

tentacleuno wrote: post #70

heads wrote: post #65

The world of low spec hardware really does need faster, lighter browsers. Too many times now have I configured an SBC, RPi, or even a laptop that’s just a few years old and been disappointed that, while everything else is wonderful and fast and smooth looking, it is browser performance that is the one thing holding me back. I am resigned to the fact that some of my requirements really do mean I need a Ryzen 7 with 16…

> MS Teams I really do empathize here, after having to use Teams for around 2 years. It's amazingly slow, confusing, buggy (it would crash the tab quite regularly), and just generally a perfect role model for what software shouldn't be[0]. I'm still quite amazed that Microsoft decided this was acceptable. I'm curious how Slack performs; perhaps they're not trying harder because there's no[t much] competition in this…

Post by anthk » Wed, Jan 03, 2024, 9:47 AM UTC

krylon wrote: post #22

rodarima wrote: post #11

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Generally not great, as Dillo doesn't support Javascript and most modern sites are using it to create content. But if the site degrades well without JS it should render reasonably well.

I often use it to read Wikipedia articles. The layout is all jambled up, but the article content itself is fine. If a web site is low on layout, heavy on text, it usually works okay-ish. A lot of web sites these days, however, are an empty skeleton with a bit of Javascript code to load the content - these do not work in dillo, it has no Javascript engine; to a degree, I consider this a feature, but it makes large par…

      http_user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (PSP (PlayStation Portable); 2.00)"

Post by bambax » Wed, Jan 03, 2024, 10:11 AM UTC

rodarima wrote: post #14

janice1999 wrote: post #13

Fantastic work. I remember using Dillo in Puppy Linux from Live CDs back in the day. What's the minimum compiler you target? Any big long term plans? Fuzzing? Moving to 'modern' build system like CMake?

Thanks! > What's the minimum compiler you target? I didn't defined any (yet), but shouldn't be too hard to add to the CI. > Any big long term plans? First preventing it from dying and getting removed from distros. Then it depends of how much free time I can dedicate to it, but at least maintaining it. > Fuzzing? I would say first adding some of the other browser tests suites. That should catch a lot of rendering issu…