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25 Years of Dillo

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Re: 25 Years of Dillo

#42

Post by vrodic »

it can show a basic unbloated news site from my contry

it can show lwn.net

it can show HN

it can show old popular local forum

it can show rss feeds

it automatically blocks (does not work on) all the popular social networks

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what else is there?

Re: 25 Years of Dillo

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Post by einpoklum »

I believe we should all laud and support the admirable efforts of the new dillo developer/caretaker, Rodrigo Arias Mallo:

* Adopting a project others have abandoned

* Bringing a dysfunctional app it back to life

* Taking on the responsibility of maintenance

* And even doing the surrounding work of website setup, blogging, pushing it into the news etc.

... now that is the mark an upstanding hacker and a pillar of the community! :-)

Additionally, it's important to have alternative lightweight browsers, with different architecture and sets-of-dependencies.

So, consider chipping in and supporting the work monetarily as well:

https://liberapay.com/dillo/

it can be a larger or smaller donation; and even though it's supposedly recurring, you choose whether the renewal is automatic or manual, so you can decide whether to give once or repeatedly.

(And just to clarify - I have no association with the project or Mr. Mallo)

Re: 25 Years of Dillo

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Post by dTal »

sshine wrote: post #3

I used Dillo when I ran OpenBSD on my laptop in 2003. Running a full desktop environment with text editor and web browser open: 28 MB RAM I remember that Dillo did not support automatic redirects back then. They were everywhere.

Meh - I remember full Firefox running on Gnome 2 on FreeBSD taking 64 MB in 2008. Not quite sure where we've gone so radically wrong since then.

Re: 25 Years of Dillo

#46

Post by anthk »

dTal wrote: post #44
sshine wrote: post #3

I used Dillo when I ran OpenBSD on my laptop in 2003. Running a full desktop environment with text editor and web browser open: 28 MB RAM I remember that Dillo did not support automatic redirects back then. They were everywhere.

Meh - I remember full Firefox running on Gnome 2 on FreeBSD taking 64 MB in 2008. Not quite sure where we've gone so radically wrong since then.

RedHat, Fedora, FreeDesktop.

Re: 25 Years of Dillo

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Post by anthk »

I use it daily on HN and lots of sites. With this UA at ~/.dillorc you can read tons of sites:

        http_user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (PSP (PlayStation Portable); 2.00)"
Also, related, the current maintainer liked this too: An Open Street Map client/GPX tool written in FLTK:

https://github.com/shugaa/florb

Re: 25 Years of Dillo

#49

Post by anthk »

vrodic wrote: post #42

it can show a basic unbloated news site from my contry it can show lwn.net it can show HN it can show old popular local forum it can show rss feeds it automatically blocks (does not work on) all the popular social networks -- what else is there?

gopher and gemini plugins work great, it needs dillo mainline.

Also:

gopher://magical.fish Huge portal, with news sources

gopher://goherddit.com Reddit

gemini://gemi.dev News Waffle, able to browse Ars Technica and so over Gemini.

Re: 25 Years of Dillo

#50

Post by bArray »

rodarima wrote: post #27

Coincidentally, the Dillo FOSDEM talk also got accepted yesterday[1], so I'll try to make something special for the 25 year ocassion :) [1]: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4100-resu...

Thank you for your work.

I occasionally use this browser for many years (maybe 10+ years) for a few scenarios, including if Firefox breaks (or gets snap'ed), or when I want to test how a website may work on a non-mainstream browser, i.e. reduced JS and CSS support. With it's very low list of dependencies, it has always been the backup.

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