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Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium

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Re: Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium

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Post by jpc0 »

reddit_clone wrote: post #19
angeldimitrov94 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Struggling to see the reasoning behind why you would need to do this if you are remoting into a machine, meaning you have a real machine that you can just open a browser in. Seems more like a solution looking for a problem to me. There's never been a situation in which I wished I had a browser like this in the CLI. There have been situations in which I wish I could just get a simplified text version of any site witho…

Unless you have x-forwarding (and an X server running locally) or VNC you can't really use a graphical browser remotely yes? This lets you use it from plain SSH connection?

In what situation do you need to do that is what the previous commenter qas getting at.

If you want a graphical browser just open it locally...

Re: Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium

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Post by janantos »

leephillips wrote: post #4

Why were your projects no longer welcomed at Codeberg?

Tbh, I don’t want to be part of codeberg anymore, their community moved away from my believes. And as I have another projects being according them not welcomed there because they are tied to LLM ecosystem. I have prof of concept of AI coding agent entirely written in bash and also near realtime spoken word translation/transcription project using selfhosted Gemma4 and Nvidia Parakeet LLM models. In their latest blog they clearly stated those projects are not welcomed there, so I don’t see the reason to keep my projects there at all, how much I have understanding for their decision and I do believe that LLMs shall be used responsibly I don’t align myself with their community anymore and do not want to be part of it. I am more aligning with Linus Torvalds about LLMs opinions. From now Codeberg community is unpredictable.

Re: Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium

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Post by janantos »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #6

> WARNING: Kitty image support (currently only in main branch builds) by its design nature is barelly usable in SSH when brow6el runs on remote host, this feature is usable when brow6el is executed on localhost. On ssh the responsivenes of browser is significantly affected, due to massive data transfers on each frame rendered But it's fine in the default Sixel?

Yes it is, I am testing it regularily, thats the reason I have implemented tailing rendering support in sixel renderer, to send only part of screen that has changed.

Re: Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium

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Post by janantos »

tim-projects wrote: post #2

I don't like the name. Can suggest renaming to insane browser because this is actually insane in a good way. :) What happens if you run it in a TTY ? Does it fail to render anything?

If you use yaft in tty it runs just fine except mouse, so you need to use keyboard mouse emulation I have inplemented for these and not only these scenarios.

Re: Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium

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Post by janantos »

jpc0 wrote: post #21
reddit_clone wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless you have x-forwarding (and an X server running locally) or VNC you can't really use a graphical browser remotely yes? This lets you use it from plain SSH connection?

In what situation do you need to do that is what the previous commenter qas getting at. If you want a graphical browser just open it locally...

The primary idea was just can it be done. But it then went crazy, being mentioned on big portals such as hackaday, makeuseof, etc… I have also received messages people using this to access internal Grafana stack without need to be on VPN, so people found the reason for its existence by themselves. Also I am big fan of terminal apps, so why not.

Re: Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium

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Post by janantos »

zarski wrote: post #3

Can Brow6el work as expected within a Docker container?

Docker is somehow problematic as it breaks somehow pty. but it works in distrobox, which is using containers, so there must be some parameters to make it run in docker. Another idea I had to mitigate it, was running ssh server using supervisord side by side
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