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It seems to be incredibly slow which kind of defeats the purpose of having a text-based browser to begin with. I'm not sure, but it looks like it's taking the output of a headless Firefox and turning it into ascii. If that's the case I'd rather stick with something like Lynx, etc.

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The point is when you have a connection with limited bandwidth. In such cases you can host browsh in the cloud and connect to it with ssh/mosh. You get a much better experience than text based browsers at a limited bandwidth.

It's great for such cases - I use it when hiking / working away from good internet.

In that case it'd be interesting to see a text-based VNC that works system-wide not just as a browser.

Thank you, I just learned about Mosh and it's absolutely awesome! I have to switch VPN regularly in my job and it's a real pain in the ass working with multiple ongoing ssh sessions. No more!

Mosh has been making remote sessions bearable for years, and I'm grateful, but I made the switch to Eternal Terminal recently and it's better:

https://eternalterminal.dev

The native scroll support and tmux-aware behavior are both pretty slick.

I run into this a lot travelling in places with bad internet and hiking. I just want to check a route or some place and travel bloggers and their bloated ad-riddled popup-covered sites take forever to load.

I mentioned in another thread an alternative browser I've been prototyping to solve this problem. I'd love if you could tell me more about what you need from something like this. All my prototyping so far has been on desktop but the idea in my head has always been for a mobile app since that's often all I have when travelling, but there's no reason for it not to work on desktop too.

As this comment in the thread says, it looks like it uses a lot of constant bandwidth as it's consttantly querying for the latest visuals from the headless FF instance[0]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25132746

The main use case for this is when you want to experience a browser in a terminal, including if you don't have X or a GUI setup.

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