Comment by 🚀 mbays

dillo was my go to backup from twenty years ago. it does enough that it spits out largely useful output and is minimal otherwise. links² is my command line backup for the backup.

🐰 NovaSquirrel · Jan 23 at 00:52:

One person I know kept reminding me that one of my websites didn't work in NetSurf until I finally fixed it, and I realized NetSurf was kind of cool for being a pretty minimal browser that still supports a decent amount of CSS. That inspired me to put some fallbacks in my CSS to try and make my stuff still look nice even if they're missing some of the fanciest features that NetSurf lacks. It's cool to me that CSS even has that capability, to check what features are available and make decisions based on that.

🐐 uyasga · Jan 23 at 01:05:

Object Icon Browser

🚀 teekay · Jan 23 at 07:40:

elinks - I wrote about why I love elinks here: gemini://tobykurien.com/articles/2023-06-25-in-praise-of-elinks.gmi

☕️ tenno-seremel · Jan 23 at 16:02:

If it doesn’t work in eww it doesn’t exist.

💎 pista · Jan 25 at 03:26:

Just pipe curl output into less

❄ ghost · Jan 25 at 11:06:

w3m is nice for reading articles, though its images are questionable. I wish it could parse JavaScript though - it'd be nice to get a web page and pipe it into something else without no-JS breaking everysite.

🐙 norayr · Jan 25 at 11:13:

i like that links works in framebuffer and in x11, so though i am not using it, in particularly it has problems with armenian fonts. i use netsurf as a simple browser.

my problem with all simple browsers is that they don't save the state: which window and which tab was on which workspace. firefox and only firefox and its modern clones like librewolf do that. palemoon doesnt.

🚀 sy · Jan 25 at 13:35:

For reading articles on the web, I use scripts to fetch just the article contents.

If the content is short, the script uses w3m (recently transitioning to using chawan) to display. If it is longer, it uses pandoc and typst to produce a PDF. Rendering PDF this way is both quicker than loading modern web pages in a GUI web browser, and produces a consistent style for reading.

🚀 me · Jan 25 at 15:47:

its not a replacement but wanted to mention that i run a nomadnet webpage which feels even cooler than gemini (which is already amazing cool)... but to answer your question: `mobilized-dillo`

🚀 sparcipx · Jan 28 at 03:36:

I've been using my older Powerbooks a lot lately, so Classilla, iCab, Netscape 4, and WannaBe have been seeing a lot of use. WannaBe is the only Javascript free one though.

🚀 anthk_out · Jan 31 at 12:13:

Mothra and Netsurf under 9front :)

😎 decant · Feb 02 at 16:40:

I would use netsurf, but on unix it requires GTK which is a boatload of deps. dillo has buildin uMatrix function that let you block third party elements on a per site basis, and you can change useragent easily. On netsurf, you just can't do that. Is there a netsurf port for OpenBSD that can do these?? Open for suggestions.

😎 decant · Feb 02 at 16:43:

more of a uMatrix like function, there is no easily point and click interface, you need to edit /.dillo/domainrc

🙂 Alfika07 · Apr 04 at 20:58:

Netsurf is very lightweit and it's used on RISCOS by default

🐙 norayr · Apr 05 at 00:50:

i noticed nobody mentioned lynx. i remember it didn't support html frames, unlike links, but it could convert some non unicode language encodings to translit.

🌲 byte · Apr 05 at 04:27:

dillo for linux when needed, mothra for 9front/plan9, gemini almost everywhere <3

🐙 norayr · Apr 05 at 10:35:

actually yes, lagrange or amfora + levior or duckling proxy is more than you need for most websites.

👻 ps · Apr 05 at 11:46:

Not sure if that's the answer, but I've simply set `javascript.enabled` to `false` in the `Firefox about:config`

💎 pista · Apr 05 at 18:11:

@byte based.

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🚀 RubyMaelstrom

Which Javascript-free Browser? — Which Javascript-free and/or text-based light browser do people prefer? Sometimes it's nice to view the web through a more simple lens, even though it breaks 98% of websites out there. Are you more of a Dillo-head, or a traditionalist hanging out at the TTY with Links2? Or are you a *true* traditionalist and go all the way back with Mosaic? Maybe something else? Actually, pruning my daily www usage to websites which work well in these "simple" browsers has...

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