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Re:Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser by rjzzleep on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @01:06AM (#38851249)
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.

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Re:Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser by niutech on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @05:53AM (#38852694)
You can install Carbonyl in a VPS and use my Carbonyl Terminal (https://github.com/niutech/carbonyl-terminal) as a thin client for it.
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Re:Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser by rubymamis on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @10:21AM (#38855087)
qutebrowser binary is 424MB (on macOS, at least). Is that considered light?
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Re:Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser by Mr_Minderbinder on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @06:08PM (#38861058)
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.
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Re:Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser by rjzzleep on Thursday January 04, 2024 @08:56PM (#38874801)
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.
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