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40 mentions on Hacker News by 23 people: 7 stories, 33 comments · first 2016-05-21 · latest 2026-08-21

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  1. …for keyboard-only navigation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_web_browser [2] https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh
    comment by closetheloopdev · 2026-08-21 · in Stop Making TUIs
  2. …browsh-org/browsh: A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh "Forking Chrome to render in a terminal" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34547259 fathyb/carbonyl:…
    comment by westurner · 2026-07-23 · in Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium
  3. …the opposite approach and tries to render the HTML in the terminal (without LLMs as far as I know) https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZq86XfBoRo
    comment by nartho · 2025-07-01 · in Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages
  4. There is browsh, which uses Firefox underneath: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh And looks like Carbonyl uses Chrome: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
    comment by yaky · 2025-03-16 · in Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained
  5. …and Browsh[2] which do images and js in the terminal. 1: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl 2: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh
    comment by blacksmith_tb · 2025-02-20 · in Lynx Browser: The Land That Time Revived (2022)
  6. …remote VPS/tilde to use the offpunk client there to browse web/gemini and gopher sites anonymously. https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh can be pretty decent, too. Aside, it's a shame that it's not common practice to provide resource…
    comment by h0p3 · 2023-08-10 · in Russia Starts Blocking VPN Protocols
  7. …the web for the project, so if you had more guidance on that one, it would be appreciated. [0] https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh Edit: Noted I was querying for something more feature anemic, plus Browsh link
    comment by fbdab103 · 2023-04-30 · in Show HN: Frogmouth – A Markdown browser for the terminal
  8. …CJK. Does anybody know of anything? It's for rendering in Browsh, a text-based web browser: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/75
    comment by tombh · 2022-06-08 · in The 'Ahem' Font
  9. I'm kinda hoping he changes his mind on this one: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/270 IMO the gains w/ chafa are pretty enormous. I find it enormously helpful with w3m where it is my default image handler these days.
    comment by capitainenemo · 2022-05-24 · in Browsh – A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers
  10. There is a browser for the terminal: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh
    comment by callesgg · 2022-04-20 · in ANSi Web Browser concept (2012)
  11. TUIs are very pretty and very convenient. Unfortunately rendering to the Terminal is...slow. See https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh . Honestly I wonder if there is a way to speed it up. Like a new terminal mode which lets you write or…
    comment by armchairhacker · 2022-03-17 · in TUIs
  12. …repo does link to a build guide[1], and the build steps are also reproduced in the Dockerfile. [1] https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/blob/master/contrib/set...
    comment by swampangel · 2019-11-12 · in Browsh for text-based internet browsing (2018)
  13. …rendered to a shell with Vim keybindings would be so amazing to use! [1]: https://www.brow.sh/ [2]: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/pull/264
    comment by jakecopp · 2019-07-10 · in Living without the modern browser
  14. https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh
    comment by chewz · 2018-09-01 · in Can you use the terminal for everything? [video]
  15. Sadly, it's not a feature yet, but it's planned: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/85
    comment by tombh · 2018-07-11 · in Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
  16. …What made you think about using Nginx as a proxy? You can already install Firefox extensions: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/45
    comment by tombh · 2018-07-11 · in Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
  17. Thanks. It does break the code doesn't it, but I'm planning on implementing a magnifying glass: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/33
    comment by tombh · 2018-07-11 · in Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
  18. Follow this issue: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/32
    comment by tombh · 2018-07-11 · in Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
  19. Follow this issue to follow Vim-keys integration: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/31
    comment by tombh · 2018-07-11 · in Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
  20. Does that look related to this? https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/58
    comment by tombh · 2018-07-11 · in Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
  21. from a quick peek at the GH repo, https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/blob/master/webext/asse... and the JS in the surrounding extension code?
    comment by detaro · 2018-07-10 · in Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
  22. …a quick chmod+x it was up and running (I had a new-ish Firefox in my Applications folder). [1]: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/releases/download/v1.2....
    comment by filleokus · 2018-07-10 · in Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
  23. Does it look related to this? https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/73
    comment by tombh · 2018-07-10 · in Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
  24. I'm planning to add a 'magnifying glass' feature: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/33
    comment by tombh · 2018-07-10 · in Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
  25. Yes, I know :/ I'm pretty sure it's related to the issues the terminal client has here: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/42 At least with the terminal client successive frame updates eventually render the text - a luxury we…
    comment by tombh · 2018-07-10 · in Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
  26. You can manually add any of Firefox's extensions: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/45
    comment by tombh · 2018-07-10 · in Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
  27. By down, do you mean this? https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/58
    comment by tombh · 2018-07-10 · in Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
  28. …very much Browsh's responsibility here, not yours. I've added your site as an issue on the repo: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/75
    comment by tombh · 2018-07-10 · in Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
  29. …I'm ditching X11 and ffmpeg and actually rendering real text as a layer over the TTY blocks. See: https://github.com/tombh/texttop/blob/webext-rewrite/webext/...
    comment by tombh · 2018-01-05 · in Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH
  30. …actually layers REAL text over the blocks. You can get an idea of my approach with this function: https://github.com/tombh/texttop/blob/webext-rewrite/webext/... After the success of hitting the front page here last year, I really wanted…
    comment by tombh · 2018-01-05 · in Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH
  31. He describes the motivation in the README here: https://github.com/tombh/texttop#why Looks like the goal is to be able to view modern websites over poor internet connections using mosh. (And also probably a lot of fun to implement/see…
    comment by paulfurtado · 2018-01-05 · in Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH
  32. You could try text top :): https://github.com/tombh/texttop
    comment by NatW · 2016-05-21 · in Apache Guacamole
  33. For fun you could try texttop: https://github.com/tombh/texttop
    comment by NatW · 2016-05-21 · in Apache Guacamole