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Check out more lightweight web browsers: NetSurf, Pale Moon, K-Meleon on Goanna, Otter Browser, Ultralight, as well as terminal apps: Carbonyl, Browsh, Links (i

Check out more lightweight web browsers: NetSurf, Pale Moon, K-Meleon on Goanna, Otter Browser, Ultralight, as well as terminal apps: Carbonyl, Browsh, Links (it has a graphical mode too).

rjzzleep 3y ago
When you run a chromium in headless mode it doesn't make the browser any lighter. I think what the OP means is that you need to have a browser with the most important JS and CSS functionality to render modern websites, but without all the junk on top of it. qutebrowser and nyxt would fit the bill better. to be honest I feel like nyxt is really cool, but I'm not sure if choosing a lisp was the right idea.
- niutech 3y ago
  You can install Carbonyl in a VPS and use my Carbonyl Terminal (https://github.com/niutech/carbonyl-terminal https://github.com/niutech/carbonyl-terminal) as a thin client for it.
- rubymamis 3y ago
  qutebrowser binary is 424MB (on macOS, at least). Is that considered light?
  - Mr_Minderbinder 3y ago
    Well my (un-googled) Chromium installation takes up 254MB, and I use that as my "big/corporate" browser so I would definitely not consider that light.
  - rjzzleep 3y ago
    qutebrowser uses a qt-webengine library in the background, which is also basically a full chromium rendering engine, where not all features are exposed to the UI. It's only light in terms of UI. Just like a headless Chromium is only light on the UI side of things.
subtra3t 3y ago
I tried using palemoon a few years ago, but many web pages just didn't work at all. I wonder if that's changed?
- niutech 3y ago
  Check out yourself, the latest release was 2 weeks ago: https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml
RF_Savage 3y ago
There even was elinks that used svgalib instead of X. So one could use it on a machine that did not even have any desktop enviroment installed.
- niutech 3y ago
  This was Links, not Elinks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_%28web_browser%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_%28web_browser%29

Check out more lightweight web browsers: NetSurf, Pale Moon, K-Meleon on Goanna, Otter Browser, Ultralight, as well as terminal apps: Carbonyl, Browsh, Links (it has a graphical mode too).

rjzzleep 3y ago

When you run a chromium in headless mode it doesn't make the browser any lighter. I think what the OP means is that you need to have a browser with the most important JS and CSS functionality to render modern websites, but without all the junk on top of it. qutebrowser and nyxt would fit the bill better. to be honest I feel like nyxt is really cool, but I'm not sure if choosing a lisp was the right idea.

niutech 3y ago
You can install Carbonyl in a VPS and use my Carbonyl Terminal (https://github.com/niutech/carbonyl-terminal https://github.com/niutech/carbonyl-terminal) as a thin client for it.
rubymamis 3y ago
qutebrowser binary is 424MB (on macOS, at least). Is that considered light?
- Mr_Minderbinder 3y ago
  Well my (un-googled) Chromium installation takes up 254MB, and I use that as my "big/corporate" browser so I would definitely not consider that light.
- rjzzleep 3y ago
  qutebrowser uses a qt-webengine library in the background, which is also basically a full chromium rendering engine, where not all features are exposed to the UI. It's only light in terms of UI. Just like a headless Chromium is only light on the UI side of things.

subtra3t 3y ago

I tried using palemoon a few years ago, but many web pages just didn't work at all. I wonder if that's changed?

niutech 3y ago
Check out yourself, the latest release was 2 weeks ago: https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml

RF_Savage 3y ago

There even was elinks that used svgalib instead of X. So one could use it on a machine that did not even have any desktop enviroment installed.

niutech 3y ago
This was Links, not Elinks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_%28web_browser%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_%28web_browser%29