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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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  1. …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
  2. You asked for it… https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
    comment by corysama · 2026-05-11 · in Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
  3. …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
  4. Carbonyl is still the goat https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
    comment by cons0le · 2026-01-13 · in Text-based web browsers
  5. Carbonyl looked promising but unfortunately is not maintained anymore: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
    comment by mike31fr · 2025-11-07 · in Ratatui – App Showcase
  6. …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
  7. https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl should be perfect for this
    comment by moondev · 2025-09-12 · in A desktop environment without graphics (tmux-like)
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. …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)
  11. 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)
  12. …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
  13. …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
  14. 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?
  15. 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)
  16. …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
  17. …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
  18. 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
  19. Also see: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
    comment by tombh · 2024-01-17 · in Browsh: The modern text-based web browser
  20. 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
  21. Perhaps Carbonyl may be of interest to you? https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
    comment by nathanwh · 2023-04-09 · in Dooble Web Browser
  22. Checkmate! https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
    comment by moondev · 2023-03-27 · in We need better support for SSH host certificates
  23. 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