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R.L. Dane

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Apr 10

Hello from smolfedi on #NetSurf!!

This is the lightest browser I could get working (had auth problems with every other #smol browser I tried).

It kinda lacks keyboard navigation badly (NetSurf, that is), but I'm still liking #SmolFedi a lot, and am looking forward to trying it on my sixteen-year-old #OpenBSD #Thinkpad. ;)

Maybe the excellent #Dillo browser dev can poke at it? ;) @dillo

Log in - SmolFedi/smolfedi.pollux.casa

Santiago, né ?

👾Apr 10

Installed @adele ‘s #smolfedi in a local VM on #proxmox.

Seen here from #netsurf inside #RiscOS on a

Pi 3 and I have a fully funcional Fediverse client :-)

#NOJS #smolweb #RetroFutureComputing

Adële 🐁!Apr 7

New version of #SmolFedi, a lightweight, no-JavaScript Fediverse client written in PHP. It respects #smolweb specs.

It works fine with all basic browser such as #netsurf So you can access Fediverse on #retro computer have a basic browser (need cookies feature).

You can install it on a simple web server with php8.x / pdo_sqlite / php_curl

https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi

Test it on https://smolfedi.pollux.casa/ and log to all your fediverse instances (tested on #gotosocial and #mastodon). You can connect to multiple account and switch between them easily.

#smallweb #fediverse

Retro Markus 🇩🇰🇩🇪Apr 1

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #sega #dreamcast #KallistOS #NetSurf

FrogFind's "Catch of the Day": The Dreamcast is alive! (Homebrew Edition) 🌀🎮

Hey Retro Fans!
Today's Catch of the Day proves that some consoles just refuse to die. We had the pleasure of welcoming a very special guest to the pond:

🏆 NetSurf 3.12 on KallistiOS

For those scratching their heads right now: KallistiOS is an open-source operating system developed specifically for the Sega Dreamcast! Instead of using the old, official browser from 1999, someone tricked out their Dreamcast with modern homebrew software and is using the lightweight NetSurf browser to read today's web via FrogFind. It's a fantastic achievement by the community and pure console love. Sega does what Nintendon't – even in 2026! 😉

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

Job Bautista Mar 18

Can webmasters please not assume that HTTP/1.1 = bad scraper and think it's okay to block them indiscriminately? Browsers like #Dillo, #Lynx, #Links, and #NetSurf still only use HTTP/1.1, and I doubt they will ever adopt HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 due to how complex those two are. Hell I'm in #PaleMoon with HTTP/2 disabled, and along with #Basilisk their HTTP/1.1 implementation outperforms HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 for my internet connection since they preserved HTTP pipelining (which mainstream dropped because I guess they have skill issue trying to tune their pipelining implementations).

#HTTP #webdev #browser #browsers #openweb

Anthk Feb 15

#netsurf under #9front gets improved a bit by boosting up the RAM cache a little. At $home/lib/netsurf/options, append this line: 'memory_cache_size:48' without quotes. Also, do yourself a favor with 'homepage_url:https://wiby.me' as it will find tons of blogs related with 9front by searching either 9front or plan9.

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Hey bud, IIRC, I couldn't get it working. :/

Looking at my past statuses with the #brutaldon hashtag, it looks like I got it working with #NetSurf and #w3m, but I don't see anything from (nor recall getting it working with) #Dillo. :/

thedæmon (Clay Ayers) [he / him]Jan 19

Netsurf on FreeBSD, can you open the Preferences dialog? No go for me! #Netsurf #FreeBSD

Simon D.Jan 16

Servo 2025 Stats
https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-2025-stats/

On this curve we clearly see the drop in contributions following the abandon by Mozilla and the incredible rise since.

2023 was already a better year than 2020, and it was x3 in 2025 compared to Mozilla's period. A beautiful square-root shaped curve : √

Ok it's not ready yet, but a lot of people are rushing toward this goal.

#Servo #webbrowser #browser #firefox #chrome #chromium #mozilla #GoodByMozilla #librewolf #zenbrowser #falkon #waterfox #TorBrowser #vanadium #thorium #vivaldi #helium #brave #edge #opera #safari #orion #ladybird #angelfish #netsurf #dillo #iridium #lynx #w3m

R.L. Dane (snac)Dec 18

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https://old.reddit.com/ is actually somewhat usable with dillo.

I think the best approach to surviving the current webpocalypse is to just forget about having "one browser to rule them all."

Take a multi-vectored approach:

Use a terminal browser like w3m, links, lynx, or chawan when doing some quick-and-dirty lookups, or when you don't feel like faffing about with a mouse at all
Use #Dillo for blogs, #smolweb sites, and sites that you don't want eating your cpu if you load them in a full browser
Optionally use #NetSurf for the few sites you know work better with it
Use #Firefox with your own custom settings or a fork like #LibreWolf for things that really require full JS and that kind of thing
Use a Blink-based browser like #Falkon or #UnGoogledChromium for the rare cases where a website just doesn't like firefox

I don't have dillo as my default browser on most of my systems now, but on all of my systems, I have one keystroke to open firefox or librewolf, and another to open dillo. A lot of times, I'll grab the url from @[email protected], launch dillo with a keystroke, and paste in the URL. If it doesn't work in dillo for some reason, or the formatting is too far off, it's easy enough just to fire up the old fox and paste in the url there.

Here's a link to a toot where I discovered how to tweak the colors in dillo to be a bit more contrasty:
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01K3YBWR5XE7N781P9F7432VP7

Here's a link to a toot with my keysrc file for more keyboard-friendly navigation (a little like qutebrowser or luakit, but only a little so far):
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01K3EQQ78KJG4E07KP74Y6Q0VE

I also have firefox settings to disable AI available upon request. It's a bit of a faff to get it set up the first time, but then you're golden (for now ;)

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