Browsh

Last updated

Browsh
Developer(s) Thomas Buckley-Houston
Stable release
1.8.2 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 31 January 2023;10 months ago (31 January 2023)
Repository
Written in JavaScript and Go [2]
Operating system all major platforms [3]
Type Web browser
Website www.brow.sh   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Browsh is a web browser that can be run from terminal client environments such as ssh and Mosh or from a web browser client. It represents web pages as text.

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Technology

The Browsh web browser represents web pages as text and can be run either from a terminal client environment or from a web browser. [4] As of August 2018 the web browser client remains less developed. [4] It has been developed since 23 April 2016. [2] It uses Go as a core part of its implementation. [4] Browsh uses a headless version of Mozilla Firefox to fetch and parse web pages. [4]

Reception

This may be seen as a modern replacement for the Lynx text-based web browser. [5] Others have felt displaying the web in text is impractical. [6]

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References

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  5. Larabel, Michael (10 July 2018). "Browsh: A Modern, Text-Based Web Browser". Phoronix. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  6. "Browsh es el navegador que muestra la web en ASCII: poco práctico, pero sorprendente como concepto" [Browsh is the browser that shows the web in ASCII: impractical, but surprising as a concept] (in Spanish). 10 July 2018. Archived from the original on 24 October 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2018.