Post 9sHpBO9fsa9csk07eK by Artanicus@fosstodon.org
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 (DIR) Post #9sHjBa4ext327iMcPg by skunksarebetter@fosstodon.org
       2020-02-22T04:42:18Z
       
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       #Browsh is an advanced text mode #web #browser.Browsh is a #terminal frontend for #Firefox that renders everything (including images) in text, with formatting preserved. Since Browsh renders to text the output can be sent over #SSH or #Mosh to conserve network usage by having a server grab large files instead of the client. Browsh supports JavaScript, HTML5, tabs, and most other features of Firefox.Website 🔗️: https://www.brow.sh#free #opensource #foss #fossmendations
       
 (DIR) Post #9sHpBO9fsa9csk07eK by Artanicus@fosstodon.org
       2020-02-22T05:49:32Z
       
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       @skunksarebetter is this the usual trickery of running a GUI on a framebuffer? It always felt dirty to me to have X libraries installed on a server.
       
 (DIR) Post #9sHtIrSRjLQVbfbGPg by gaurdianaq@fosstodon.org
       2020-02-22T06:35:41Z
       
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       @skunksarebetter ooh might look into this
       
 (DIR) Post #9sI6WInggIrLZpH6WW by alastair@fosstodon.org
       2020-02-22T09:03:45Z
       
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       @skunksarebetter I was excited until I read requires Firefox, so not a stand alone cli browser then?
       
 (DIR) Post #9sIZF521W8pQcb7XLE by pythonvisa@fosstodon.org
       2020-02-22T14:25:37Z
       
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       @skunksarebetter I've just tried this out, I've never sent a whole webpage rendered like this in the terminal before, pretty neat stuff. It would've been nice to use some keybindings typical of text-based browsers such as lynx. Really, a browser which could slide from purely text display like lynx to something more graphical like browsh would be perfection.
       
 (DIR) Post #9sJjkRgYXD2mYddNRY by skunksarebetter@fosstodon.org
       2020-02-23T03:58:03Z
       
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       @Artanicus It uses Firefox headless (as you found out). It uses a special browser addon (which is why the repository has a lot of JavaScript code) to render webpages as text. I haven't done enough testing to find out if it can run properly without X.
       
 (DIR) Post #9sJsbDAk1Y3oWkQOZM by Artanicus@fosstodon.org
       2020-02-23T05:37:13Z
       
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       @skunksarebetter thanks for the details! Will probably just suck it up and install it in a LXC container so I don't need to feel bad about having X libraries on a server. Interesting project.