Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
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Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#2Some 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 browser engine, serving to both TTY clients and, somewhat ironically, other browsers - see https://html.brow.sh Being able to render any modern site (even WebGL for example) to text seems like an appropriate return to the web's origins. The obvious benefit being to those less fortunate that have slow and/or expensive bandwidth.
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.
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#3Can 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.
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#4Amazing.
Is this relying on an external server to work?
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#5Amazing. Is this relying on an external server to work?
From the GH readme, it seems like it runs a full Firefox locally in the background and then consolifies what that renders.
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#6Can 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.
What you call "serene," I would call "austere." That's not meant as a denigration, mind you: I'm very curious as to your viewpoint here. What do you enjoy about such an experience?
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#7Is there a way to point it to a different Firefox installation path? It only looks at Program Files{x86} and then quits as it doesn't find the FF installation at Program Files.
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#8Can 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.
What you call "serene," I would call "austere." That's not meant as a denigration, mind you: I'm very curious as to your viewpoint here. What do you enjoy about such an experience?
I use elinks--
I like it for reading. I like how all the text is displayed the same, in a fixed width font I'm used to looking at. There's nothing to distract me or get in the way.
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
What you call "serene," I would call "austere." That's not meant as a denigration, mind you: I'm very curious as to your viewpoint here. What do you enjoy about such an experience?
I use elinks-- I like it for reading. I like how all the text is displayed the same, in a fixed width font I'm used to looking at. There's nothing to distract me or get in the way.
But.... You are missing all the ads!
Without those, nobody buys anything and companies go bankrupt. Hopefully you make up for your behavior by consuming more than average and watching Fox News.
Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
#10> Browsh consists of a minimal Golang CLI client and a browser webextension. Most of the work is done by the webextension. When the CLI starts, it looks for a compatible browser (currently only Firefox) and starts it in headless mode. Once the browser has started it opens a remote debugging connection and installs the extension.
So a browser wrapper.