Mastodawn

What a strange experience - browsing the web with brow.sh, a web browser for the console that does all sorts of tricks to turn web packages into "ASCII art": it runs Firefox in headless mode in the background, and samples colors from a screenshot.

The use case is maybe rather limited, but turning very old IT hardware into an up-to-date communication device is one.
@nickbearded FYI

#browsh #hacks #console

Jacket Aug 24, 2025

Discovered #browsh. It's a browser for the terminal that fully support multimedia if you like big pixels everywhere. It's basically #firefox with a different UI that I think use the render of the vanilla Firefox to generate. It needs a mouse for now that is a bit sad cause I wanted to use it on my no graphic setup. Still, really fun #browser.

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Kevin Karhan

Jun 27, 2025

@chesheer Actually a #Pentium2 is way too easy as you can still run @dillo and don't need to resort to using #browsh & some #Telnet / #Serial -> #SSH bridge...

Kevin Karhan

Oct 16, 2024

@asaflowerblossoms personally, my best experiences are sites that just run in #TorBrowser with disabled images, #JavaScript and #Cookies because it works even on slow systems and narrowband connections.

In fact, I recommend testing against #browsh and #FrogFind...

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niu tech Sep 12, 2024

@mcc How does it work? Is it similar to #Carbonyl, #Browsh or #Chawan? Is it open source? Good luck!

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niu tech Aug 27, 2024

@RL_Dane @sotolf @pkw @mirabilos Then you can use #Browsh, which is based on Firefox.

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Kevin Karhan

Jul 17, 2024

@technobaboo Personally I'm looking for a #Browser that works well in #CLI / #TUI mode.

Not shure if @servo can replace #LynxBrowser or even compete with #browsh which ovvers terminal access to a #Firefox...

Harvey Sandstrom Sep 24, 2023

So on my #einkcyberdeck I want to be able to use Firefox. But I want to use it in the most efficient way possible (running headless). That's why I've been looking at the #browsh project because they are doing something similar (using Firefox in marionette headless mode). My needs are actually a lot simpler than theirs, because I don't need to extract the text or deal with simulating graphics. https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh