fathyb/carbonyl
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Chromium running inside your terminal
30 mentions on Hacker News by 26 people: 7 stories, 23 comments · first 2023-01-28 · latest 2026-07-23
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…https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34547259 fathyb/carbonyl: Chromium running inside your terminal https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl chawan: TUI Web Browser https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/ Ladybird browser may be easier to build a TUI…
comment by westurner · 2026-07-23 · in Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium -
You asked for it… https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
comment by corysama · 2026-05-11 · in Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics -
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Carbonyl – A Chromium-based browser built to run in a terminalstory by redbell · 2026-04-02 · 0 comments
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…on airplane wifi. I find that carbonyl has even better chromium rendering than browsh. [0] https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
comment by siraben · 2026-01-13 · in Text-based web browsers -
Carbonyl is still the goat https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
comment by cons0le · 2026-01-13 · in Text-based web browsers -
Carbonyl looked promising but unfortunately is not maintained anymore: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
comment by mike31fr · 2025-11-07 · in Ratatui – App Showcase -
…the same search index.. For modern sites and if your terminal toolchain does not support sixel, https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl is a neat hack that gives you a text-rendered blink engine, i.e. supporting all the same sites as those…
comment by eMPee584 · 2025-10-21 · in Servo v0.0.1 -
https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl should be perfect for this
comment by moondev · 2025-09-12 · in A desktop environment without graphics (tmux-like) -
I remember the carbonyl project to run chromium in the terminal that got me really excited ( https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl ) but it eventually became unmaintained. This is pretty much that but supercharged. Definitely really cool to…
comment by warwren · 2025-09-10 · in Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal -
I remember seeing something similar named Carbonyl a while back. What a coincidence lol. https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl P.S. This is very cool btw.
comment by fzorb · 2025-09-10 · in Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal -
…were comments like this after the job part and even hackernews showed concern of the dev's life https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl/issues/201 [is the dev killed by IDF in Gaza #201]
comment by Imustaskforhelp · 2025-09-05 · in Forking Chrome to render in a terminal (2023) -
Fun fact, this project helped the author get a job: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl/issues/162#issuecomment-1... Carbonyl is surprisingly performant and usable, especially with --zoom=300 --bitmap At lower resolutions, it would be nice…
comment by wonger_ · 2025-09-05 · in Forking Chrome to render in a terminal (2023) -
…brought up yet, a really great hack (esp. for us without sixel) is this terminal port of chromium: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl .. but the original creator hasn't had time to get back to it. So it is very bare bones & lacks a lot of…
comment by eMPee584 · 2025-06-17 · in Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser -
…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 -
I would run this on VPS and use it via SSH: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
comment by rl1987 · 2025-02-22 · in Ask HN: How can I browse public GitHub repos on 128kbps connection? -
There are also options like Carbonyl[1] 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) -
…too difficult to see in its blocky resolution. See also the Carbonyl --bitmap and --zoom flags: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl/releases/tag/v0.0.3 The youtube-dl command can fetch tiny versions of a video on a server (even audio-only…
comment by SlowBro · 2024-06-01 · in Engineering for Slow Internet -
…half-block trick () to get 2 colours from every character cell, thus simulating basic graphics. https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl : > Carbonyl originally started as html2svg and is now the runtime behind it. Always wondered how brew.sh…
comment by westurner · 2024-02-24 · in Show HN: Consol3 – A 3D engine for the terminal that executes on the CPU -
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Carbonyl browser: a Chromium based browser built to run in a terminalstory by tigerlily · 2024-02-08 · 0 comments
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broadway (discussed in other comments) + carbonyl is kind of similar https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl https://i.imgur.com/pIQ4K7Q.png
comment by moondev · 2024-01-29 · in New Renderers for GTK -
Also see: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
comment by tombh · 2024-01-17 · in Browsh: The modern text-based web browser -
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Chromium running inside your terminalstory by Deeg9rie9usi · 2023-09-12 · 0 comments
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Maybe Carbonyl? ( https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl ) It's a chromium browser for the terminal. You could use it as a backend.
comment by tupolef · 2023-04-22 · in Show HN: TxtNet Browser – Browse the Web over SMS, No Wi-Fi/Mobile Data Needed -
Perhaps Carbonyl may be of interest to you? https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
comment by nathanwh · 2023-04-09 · in Dooble Web Browser -
Checkmate! https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
comment by moondev · 2023-03-27 · in We need better support for SSH host certificates -
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Carbonyl Bitmap Modestory by mikenew · 2023-03-03 · 0 comments
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Carbonyl runs pretty well (YouTube videos / WASM powered apps like figma et al) https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
comment by genidoi · 2023-02-06 · in If you're happy with OpenBSD, probably any computer is good enough -
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Running a browser inside your terminalstory by RojerGS · 2023-02-01 · 0 comments
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Carbonyl – Chromium running inside your terminalstory by mustak_im · 2023-01-30 · 1 comment
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Carbonyl web browser (Chromium running inside your terminal)story by cute_boi · 2023-01-28 · 0 comments