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

49 points by nerdypepper 2mo ago

tim-projects 2mo ago
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?
- janantos 2mo ago
  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.
zarski 2mo ago
Can Brow6el work as expected within a Docker container?
- janantos 2mo ago
  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
leephillips 2mo ago
Why were your projects no longer welcomed at Codeberg?
- jdiff 2mo ago
  Codeberg recently changed policy to not allow primarily AI-authored projects.
  - leephillips 2mo ago
    Oh, I see. Well I won’t be installing this then.
    - jdiff 2mo ago
      If you were interested, check out Browsh. It's a similar project but based on Firefox and it's been around for quite some time now.
    - GaryBluto 2mo ago
      OK?
    - CaptainFever 2mo ago
      > Why were your projects no longer welcomed at Codeberg? > Oh, I see. Well I won’t be installing this then. > Very illuminating. Man, talk about anti-social. What a bad faith question. It feels like you've already made up your mind on this. Were you actually looking for an answer, or just looking for an argument?
- mzs 2mo ago
  "This reporitory [https://tangled.org/janantos.tngl.sh/brow6el https://tangled.org/janantos.tngl.sh/brow6el] is now the main and only source of truth, previous on Codeberg [https://codeberg.org/janantos/brow6el https://codeberg.org/janantos/brow6el] is kept for referrence only. I have decided to migrated from Codeberg because of my other projects are not welcomed there anymore and I want to keep my projects together on single platform."
  - leephillips 2mo ago
    Very illuminating.
- janantos 2mo ago
  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.
yjftsjthsd-h 2mo ago
> 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?
- janantos 2mo ago
  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.
angeldimitrov94 2mo ago
I just don't understand...what is the use case of this? I thought it would be something that cleverly renders text without style in a minimalist-browser sort of way. But this just literally...shows you the web page...in the CLI? I'm confused.
- jadbox 2mo ago
  You could terminal into a remote machine terminal and use a web browser in the tty without needing an X11 windowing support.
  - angeldimitrov94 2mo ago
    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 without the styling, but I never once wished I could see the actual full site in all its glory in the CLI.
    - reddit_clone 2mo ago
      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?
      - jpc0 2mo ago
        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...
        janantos 2mo ago
        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.
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49 points by nerdypepper 2mo ago

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?

janantos 2mo ago
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.

zarski 2mo ago

Can Brow6el work as expected within a Docker container?

janantos 2mo ago
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

leephillips 2mo ago

Why were your projects no longer welcomed at Codeberg?

jdiff 2mo ago
Codeberg recently changed policy to not allow primarily AI-authored projects.
- leephillips 2mo ago
  Oh, I see. Well I won’t be installing this then.
  - jdiff 2mo ago
    If you were interested, check out Browsh. It's a similar project but based on Firefox and it's been around for quite some time now.
  - GaryBluto 2mo ago
    OK?
  - CaptainFever 2mo ago
    > Why were your projects no longer welcomed at Codeberg? > Oh, I see. Well I won’t be installing this then. > Very illuminating. Man, talk about anti-social. What a bad faith question. It feels like you've already made up your mind on this. Were you actually looking for an answer, or just looking for an argument?
mzs 2mo ago
"This reporitory [https://tangled.org/janantos.tngl.sh/brow6el https://tangled.org/janantos.tngl.sh/brow6el] is now the main and only source of truth, previous on Codeberg [https://codeberg.org/janantos/brow6el https://codeberg.org/janantos/brow6el] is kept for referrence only. I have decided to migrated from Codeberg because of my other projects are not welcomed there anymore and I want to keep my projects together on single platform."
- leephillips 2mo ago
  Very illuminating.
janantos 2mo ago
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.

yjftsjthsd-h 2mo ago

> 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?

janantos 2mo ago
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.

angeldimitrov94 2mo ago

I just don't understand...what is the use case of this? I thought it would be something that cleverly renders text without style in a minimalist-browser sort of way. But this just literally...shows you the web page...in the CLI? I'm confused.

jadbox 2mo ago
You could terminal into a remote machine terminal and use a web browser in the tty without needing an X11 windowing support.
- angeldimitrov94 2mo ago
  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 without the styling, but I never once wished I could see the actual full site in all its glory in the CLI.
  - reddit_clone 2mo ago
    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?
    - jpc0 2mo ago
      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...
      - janantos 2mo ago
        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.

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