Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser

Re:Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser by Fnoord on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @06:16PM (#25131204)

Terrible suggestion.

From [1]

"On 17 March 2017, OpenBSD removed ELinks from its ports tree, citing concerns with security issues and lack of responsiveness from the developers.[5]"

Last stable is from 2009. Last development release 2012. Elinks is dead. Realize it uses an old version of Spidermonkey (JS). Elinks should not be used in a production environment, period.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinks

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Re:Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser by Koshkin on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @07:53PM (#25131911)

links, on the other hand, is current. (Works on Windows, too.)

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Re:Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser by vlunkr on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @06:35PM (#25131341)

I don't think there's a single reason to use a text-based browser in a production environment.

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Re:Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser by SomeoneFromCA on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @07:19PM (#25131649)

browsing through SSH

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Re:Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser by Koshkin on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @08:00PM (#25131977)

Not just browsing (the web) - the idea of an HTML-based application UI can be extended to the text mode instead of getting stuck with the choice between a GUI and a command-line (or a custom curses-based) interface. (Imagine VSCode running in a terminal!)

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Re:Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser by Fnoord on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @06:46PM (#25131425)

I think you're perfectly able to understand what I meant there: anything other than research purpose in an isolated environment e.g. sandbox.

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