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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15269587

Dillo is a fast and small graphical web browser with HTTP, HTTPS and FTP support.

Other protocols like #Gemini #Gopher and #Spartan are available via plugins.

Dillo is on Fediverse : https://fosstodon.org/@dillo

UPDATE, available on Arch Linux now : https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/dillo

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is pretty big if it has a completely separate browser rendering engine to the two remaining families, even if the feature set is small.

The more current alternatives we have, the better.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

3 remaining families, WebKit, gecko and chromium

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There is also Ladybird :

https://ladybird.dev/

Ladybird is the only browser engine not financially dependent on Google.

It is early days but already becoming usable. I use it to browse sites like OSnews, Hacker News, and LWN.net and it already works pretty well for those.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

  • Thanks for the reminder!
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I shouldve specified "major" families

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I was counting WebKit and Blink (Chromium) as cousins, both descendents of KHTML, but maybe they've diverged enough as to not easily be able to borrow from each other any more and it really is three.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

"Welcome to ~~Team Fortress 2~~ Dillo. After 9 years in development, hopefully it would have been worth the wait."

(I'm gonna try it, it seems neat)

[–] swooosh 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No idea what it is but this wouldn't have happened if it wasn't open source. Cool!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dillo browser's original project goal was to provide a web browser for people with slow Internet connection.

Here some screenshots of Dillo browser on a phone and how the developer did that :

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

And here's a screenshot of Dillo (and some other apps) running on a modern Samsung phone (Galaxy Fold 4) :)

[–] just_another_person 4 points 4 months ago

This is...a travesty

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I need a step by step guide on how you did this good sir.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

What @lemmyreader said, except this is XFCE installed directly on Termux (and accessed via Termux-X11, a native X server for Android). No *buntu involved here. If you have an Android as well, you can set all this up (minus the actual Chicago95 theme) using this script.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

damn I didn't even think of running a de on termux, thanks! Now I'm stuck here wishing xiaomi would actually allow one phone to have usb c 3.0

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The screen shot has a document Xubuntu -> Chicago95 open which appears to be related to this :

[–] mvirts 1 points 4 months ago

Username checks out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Stunning - EDIT: The Android and Dillo browser part I meant!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I have fond memories of using dillo running on DSL live cd.