Why aren't you using Browsh as your fully modern text-based browser yet?

Why aren't you using Browsh as your fully modern text-based browser yet?
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whats' the perks of browsh over lynx

It actually renders shit (images, video, css) and runs JS, instead of just displaying text.

>runs js

when i use a text based browser, im not trying to be spied on by trackers

>whats' the perks of browsh over lynx
Lynx really is just text. The appearance of websites will look nothing like something loaded on firefox.

If you take a look at the screenshsots you'll see browsh does the layout right. And despite not being able to render images, it tries to display them with colored characters.

There's some screenshots here and in the forums:
phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Browsh-Text-Browser
Post more screenshots here please.

>900 MB RAM
No, thanks.

Browsh dev pls go

It's the year 2018.
It's using firefox as the backend, so it may be possible to disable it?

>Note that SSH is actually a very inefficient protocol
DON'T YOU DARE FUCKING TALK SHIT ABOUT MY SSH YOU FUCKING PAJEET

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it's a hipster front-end for firefox that pretends images and bandwidth are problems

Pajeet is a streetshitter.

he doesn't know better.
he still uses telnet and RDP

>modern
>text-based

choose one

so it's for faggots and children...

thanks, user

wow such an amazing web browser. the only dependency is firefox.

why not both?

you're missing the point

I'm confused. Doesn't it download the entire website and then convert it locally so that it can be outputted to the terminal? How would that save bandwidth? Or does it act like a proxy and download it all to a server then forward the text-only version to you?

It looks like there was another thread yesterday also. Pic related.

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Any web browser that didn't involve some sort of external service would have to download the entire webpage. This one seems to not throw all of it out like something that only rendered and tags would. For minimizing bandwidth you'd need a server to act as a mitm and strip all the extra shit off, just a browser won't do that

because it uses firefox as a dependency

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I shiggy diggy

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you're just dumb

A young traveller came to visit Emperor Sh, and found him sitting in his
sparsely furnished temple.

"Emperor Sh," he said, "I am told you are the greatest scholar of shell that
the world has known."

Emperor Sh made no reply. The traveller continued.

"I have come to ask your advice. I am thinking of developing a character-based
graphing tool. It will interactively change the plot based on key presses. What
shell commands should I use?"

"Don't do it in shell," said Emperor Sh, curtly.

The young traveller was confused. He tried again. "Well, I am also working on a
database audit script. It needs to validate that certain characters do not
appear in any fields in several tables."

"Don't do it in shell," repeated Emperor Sh.

The traveller began to despair. "I have journeyed one thousand miles, tried
thirteen distributions of my operating system, and waded through hundreds of
badly-written manual pages," he cried, "and now I am finally come to Emperor
Sh, the greatest shell programmer in the world, and am told to use no shell at
all! I may as well do what my friends told me, and just string together some
small Python scripts in virtualenv environments!"

"Good idea," said Emperor Sh. "Do it in shell."

Enlightenment crushed down on the young traveller and he bowed to the emperor,
sobbing with reverent joy.

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>yay -Ss browsh
>aur/browsh-bin 1.2.3-1 (+5 4.96%)
No thanks.

Because I'm not a gay.

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so its neither a real text browser nor a normal browser. looks like shit

OP here. I actually AM a gay, so I guess maybe you have a point. You really WOULD have to be a gay to use this. I understand now.

this is actually fucking amazing but how do i compile it?
there is no makefile or runmetocompileandinstall.sh

>fully modern
>text-based
Pick one

im glad to see the hivemind is still in use

>Browsh consists of a minimal Golang CLI client and a browser webextension. Most of the work is done by the webextension. When the CLI starts, it looks for a compatible browser (currently only Firefox) and starts it in headless mode. Once the browser has started it opens a remote debugging connection and installs the extension.

Holy fuck, is this what modern """ software design""" looks like?

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Holy fuck. They can't into debian packaging either. Dropped harder than OP was dropped on his head as a baby.

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you're right but there is no way anyone can implement a fully functional optimised web browser from scratch just to make it output text. might as well commit suicide

What's wrong with w3m?

>Browsh is available as a small (~2.5MB) static binary on all major platforms.
>The only dependency is a recent 57+ version of Firefox.

Needs to install another browser to use a browser.

You fucking what mate¿

no javascript
no youtube
no Jow Forums

it's not a browser browser but it works in a tty so that's gotta count for something

>trying to delete /usr/local/bin

ok fuck that

Thing is, this isn't even a fucking browser. It's just an extension (and not even a proper one, a fucking web"extension") that copies the output of Firefox into a piece of trash thrown together in a joke of a "programming language". Please, fuck off to your diversity hire position at google and never post here again.

>The only dependency is a recent 57+ version of Firefox.
Because it's automatically objectively worse than just using FF natively due to this requirement.

You forgot
>using /usr/local/bin in a deb package
Debian packaging tools error out it you try to do this. Really gets the noggin joggin'.

i'm not a developer for browsh.
i just found it cool that i can now run firefox on my tty.
I had tried before with running qemu on a sdl build that had sixel support and then running a vm inside that but it all went horribly wrong

>finding anything cool

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You won't be unless you're hosting browsh yourself locally

its shit
kys

I tried it out for a bit, felt clunky as fuck. 90% of the time it didn't click where I wanted it to. Perhaps I'll wait till its updated a bit before trying again.

not much of value was lost

>enables javascript

>no Jow Forums
you can read, but not post.

>not sending a POST request to the form handler manually

great so it's perfect for u

>small binary
>depends on firefox
hmmmm..

>written in nodejs
>depends on firefox

Nigga wut

>The only dependency is a recent 57+ version of Firefox.
>Most of the work is done by the webextension. When the CLI starts, it looks for a compatible browser (currently only Firefox) and starts it in headless mode. Once the browser has started it opens a remote debugging connection and installs the extension.
Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, what the hell virtual abomination is this?

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because i don't trust some random js engine in some no name browser to be secure. the reason doing this in the past or even in a "scraping content" has been so hard is because of js.

it is a real text browser

it's not disk space, it's ram. my vps has 512M ram, half of which is used for all the services it currently runs

it's pointless as a local browser, since it's just regular firefox shoehorned into a text display
but it does make sense as a very low bandwidth remote browser, like running it on a VPS and connecting to it from a cellphone

>brow.sh/
Use this service:

html.brow.sh/

Just append the site you want after the last forward slash:

eg: html.brow.sh/http://voat.co

It uses an external server to download the page, convert it to ASCII and then transmit it back to you.

I was alomost sold - even dlded the deb unti I read

>Browsh’s only prerequisite is a current (57+) version of Firefox.

If I wanted txt only I'll use lynx etc. if I have to use ff I'll stick to esr.

>muh blurry hipster pixel shit
Worst browser I've ever used. All of the disadvantages of a text browser and none of the benefits of Firefox despite using it as a backend. Pure dogshit.

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>use the hosted ssh version to avoid being tracked
>"The service is for demonstration only, sessions last 5 minutes and are logged."

You dumb bitch