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Can people share some use-case for this kind of tools?

• nsonha 3y ago
  brow the web from a dumb terminal?
  • deleted 3y ago
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• adamdegas 3y ago
  Battery life
  • anthk 3y ago
    Not so much; running Chrome headlessly can yield almost the same power usage as a graphical spawn one.
    • fdupress 3y ago
      You would run browsh on a power unconstrained server that you SSH to from your power-constrained device.
    • adamdegas 3y ago
      You're not supposed to run it on the same device. You're supposed to run it from a server and SSH into it to save power on the client device.
• tombh 3y ago
  From the README: If you only have a 3kbps internet connection tethered from a phone, then it's good to SSH into a server and browse the web through, say, elinks. That way the server downloads the web pages and uses the limited bandwidth of an SSH connection to display the result. However, traditional text-based browsers lack JS and all other modern HTML5 support. Browsh is different in that it's backed by a real browser, namely headless Firefox, to create a purely text-based version of web pages and web apps. These can be easily rendered in a terminal or indeed, ironically, in another browser. Do note that currently the browser client doesn't have feature parity with the terminal client.