#dillo

𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚜sehnsucht@social.sdf.org
2026-01-25

@dillo 3.2.0 runs reasonably fast on a 25 years old SPARC station.

#dillo #sparc #retrocomputing

screenshot of a NetBSD/sparc64 desktop, featuring a dillo window displaying the old computer challenge website (occ.sdf.org).
2026-01-16

Servo 2025 Stats
blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-2

On this curve we clearly see the drop in contributions following the abandon by Mozilla and the incredible rise since.

2023 was already a better year than 2020, and it was x3 in 2025 compared to Mozilla's period. A beautiful square-root shaped curve : √

Ok it's not ready yet, but a lot of people are rushing toward this goal.

#Servo #webbrowser #browser #firefox #chrome #chromium #mozilla #GoodByMozilla #librewolf #zenbrowser #falkon #waterfox #TorBrowser #vanadium #thorium #vivaldi #helium #brave #edge #opera #safari #orion #ladybird #angelfish #netsurf #dillo #iridium #lynx #w3m

'√' shape Servo contributions curve. (square root shape)
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:rl_dane@polymaths.social
2026-01-14

Website: "Log in to remove ads!"
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I love #dillo. XD

#LossyPNG #DilloBrowser #smolWeb (kinda) #Web1.0 #WebOnePointOh

Screenshot of the dillo browser displaying the url https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=discombobulate

and the following text:

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discombobulate(v.)

"to upset, embarrass," 1834, discombobricate, American English, fanciful mock-Latin coinage of a type popular then. Compare, on a similar pattern, confusticate (1852), absquatulate (1840), spifflicate "confound, beat" (1850), toploftical "pompous, bombastic" (1823), undercumstumble "understand" (1824), scrumplicate "eat" (1890). Related: discombobulating; discombobulation.

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discombobulated(adj.)

1834 (as discombobracated); see discombobulate.

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confusticate(v.)

"confound, confuse," 1852, a fantastical mock-Latin American English coinage from confound or confuse, originally in "Negro dialect" passages in works such as "J. Thornton Randolph's" pro-slavery "The Cabin and Parlor" (1852, a response to "Uncle Tom's Cabin"), picked up in London publications by the 1860s. Similar formations include confubuscate, conflabberated, etc., and compare discombobulate. Related: Confusticated; confusticating.

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R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:rl_dane@polymaths.social
2026-01-08

@Eggfreckles

Vanilla firefox is actually somewhat usable on my Core 2 Duo. ;)

(But I default to #dillo XD )

Lucas de Senaseninha@bsd.network
2026-01-07

I wrote a #gopher plugin for #dillo in POSIX shell script. Since it uses curl, you can also use it to access servers under TLS-encrypted connection (gophers://).

The only requirements (other than dillo and /bin/sh) are curl and awk.

codeberg.org/seninha/gopher.fi

Screenshot of dillo browsing my personal gopherhole.
2026-01-05

Trying dilloc with #dillo, which is kinda like mpc is for mpd
or the way to control mpv with sockets. Yes, this can be useful
to pipe sites and create filters, such as replacing domains.

Karel 'Clock' K.clock@f.cz
2026-01-03

I made Czech state gazette Collection of Laws partially accessible for users of the Links lightweight web browser.

archive.org/details/sbirka_zak

It has 28 GB.

IMO the Czech regime discriminates against users of the Links, Lynx, Dillo, and Midori browsers by not allowing them access to the Collection of Laws.

It can be viewed directly online from Links as individual PDF§s. You have to click SHOW ALL, select a year or decade, e.g. 2023.tar, and next to that click View Contents and select a PDF, or download the whole tar.

It's downloaded from the old Collection of Laws system for the years 1945-2023, and from the new system, about 7% of the year 2024.

There are no current versions of the acts, which are constantly changing, but the promulgated (original) texts and promulgated changes. There is no usual numbering like XXX/YYYY Sb. (Coll.), but files with numbers increasing with time, with the exception of 1993 where they have it divided into two blocks.

At least now we have this because without it, users of Links, Lynx, Dillo, Midori do not have access to Czech laws from home at all.

The regime implements discrimination by displaying only JavaScript-generated on-the-fly content and the link to the PDF cannot be clicked with right mouse button and no URL can be copied, where one could download the PDF.

I feel

e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards the Czech regime, when the situation is like this.

#links2gang #links2 #links #lynx #dillo #midori #twibrightlabs #twibright #ruleoflaw #laws #discrimination #czechia #transparency #opendata #accessibility #javascript

Screenshot of the Links browser displaying a PDF with a law via the mupdf PDF viewer.
Karel 'Clock' K.clock@f.cz
2026-01-03

Udělal jsem Sbírku Zákonů pro uživatele Linksu.

archive.org/details/sbirka_zak

Má to 28 GB.

Český režim dle mého názoru (DMN) diskriminuje uživatele prohlížečů Links, Lynx, Dillo, Midori tím, že jim neumožňuje přístup ke Sbírce zákonů.

Dá se to prohlížet přímo online z Linkse jako jednotlivá PDFka. Musí se jít na SHOW ALL, vybrat rok nebo desetiletí např. 2023.tar a vedle toho kliknout View Contents a pak vybrat PDFko, nebo stáhnout celý tar.

Je to postahované ze starého systému Sbírky Zákonů roky 1945-2023, a z nového systému část asi 7% roku 2024.

Nejsou tam aktuální znění, která se neustále mění, ale vyhlášená (původní) znění a změny. Není tam běžné číslování, typu XXX/YYYY Sb., ale soubory podle čísel roustoucích s časem, s výjimkou roku 1993 kde to mají rozdělené do dvou bloků.

Tak aspoň takhle protože bez toho uživatelé Linksu, Lynxu, Dillo, Midori nemají přístup k zákonům z domova vůbec.

Diskriminace je implementovaná tak, že se zákony zobrazují pouze on-the-fly generované Javascripem a na link na PDF se nedá kliknout pravou myší a nedá se zkopírovat žádné URL, z kterého by se dalo stáhnout.

Cítím vůči českému režimu

e x t r é m n ě s i l n é o p o v r ž e n í

když je situace takováto.

#links2gang #links2 #links #lynx #dillo #midori #twibrightlabs #twibright #ruleoflaw #czechia #transparency #opendata #accessibility #javascript

Screenshot Linkse s mupdf s PDF ze Sbírky zákonů.
Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo:evgandr@bsd.cafe
2026-01-02

BTW, in the #Dillo the article looks pretty good, lol

#web #webdesign #enshittification

The article from "Software Engineering Standard" opened in the Dillo browser. Surprisingly, but it uses full width of browser window, without ugly unused space on the sides of tiny column of text.
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:rl_dane@polymaths.social
2025-12-24

@amin

Ahhhh, ok. I wonder if there's a way for #Dillo to spoof the user agent. I think I've seen that somewhere.

...found it! Testing...

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:rl_dane@polymaths.social
2025-12-23

Dang, I could've sworn that #eBay worked in #Dillo just a few months ago.

Error screen when trying to load ebay:

Example of error message (not an exact match to what is seen on screen, but very close):

Service Unavailable - Zero size object
The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.
Reference #15.c7427568.1766530118.3b5e000a 
https://errors.edgesuite.net/15.c7427568.1766530118.3b5e000a
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:rl_dane@polymaths.social
2025-12-23

DANG, I forgot that #Dillo starts instantaneously on even old machines. It's almost startling if you're used to modern web browsers. X'D

Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo:evgandr@bsd.cafe
2025-12-21

@bazkie

> and with the second category of browser, we will not be able to visit the corporate sphere anymore

Possibly, this part is not a future already :drgn_think:

#dillo #Reddit

Screenshot of Awesome WM desktop with two browsers alongside. The first browser is Librewolf, displaying the front page of Reddit with some Emacs and photography related topics in it.

The second browser is Dillo. The opened URL is the same — front page of Reddit, but it displays an error "You're been blocked by network security" instead of content.
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:rl_dane@polymaths.social
2025-12-20

@gardiner_bryant @killyourfm

Oh my, and the site actually gives #smolweb browsers like #Dillo some love! Wow!

A screenshot of https://gardinerbryant.com/homestar-runner-a-history/ running in the Dillo browser on OpenBSD 7.8
R.L. Dane (snac)rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe
2025-12-18
@evgandr@bsd.cafe @yoasif@mastodon.social @dillo@fosstodon.org

https://old.reddit.com/ is actually somewhat usable with dillo.

I think the best approach to surviving the current webpocalypse is to just forget about having "one browser to rule them all."

Take a multi-vectored approach:

  • Use a terminal browser like w3m, links, lynx, or chawan when doing some quick-and-dirty lookups, or when you don't feel like faffing about with a mouse at all
  • Use #Dillo for blogs, #smolweb sites, and sites that you don't want eating your cpu if you load them in a full browser
  • Optionally use #NetSurf for the few sites you know work better with it
  • Use #Firefox with your own custom settings or a fork like #LibreWolf for things that really require full JS and that kind of thing
  • Use a Blink-based browser like #Falkon or #UnGoogledChromium for the rare cases where a website just doesn't like firefox
I don't have dillo as my default browser on most of my systems now, but on all of my systems, I have one keystroke to open firefox or librewolf, and another to open dillo. A lot of times, I'll grab the url from @tut@fosstodon.org, launch dillo with a keystroke, and paste in the URL. If it doesn't work in dillo for some reason, or the formatting is too far off, it's easy enough just to fire up the old fox and paste in the url there.

Here's a link to a toot where I discovered how to tweak the colors in dillo to be a bit more contrasty:
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01K3YBWR5XE7N781P9F7432VP7

Here's a link to a toot with my keysrc file for more keyboard-friendly navigation (a little like qutebrowser or luakit, but only a little so far):
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01K3EQQ78KJG4E07KP74Y6Q0VE

I also have firefox settings to disable AI available upon request. It's a bit of a faff to get it set up the first time, but then you're golden (for now ;)
Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo:evgandr@bsd.cafe
2025-12-18

@yoasif I moved to #Librewolf some time ago, but also I'm trying a #Dillo inspired by the @rl_dane example, who using it as a main browser.

Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo:evgandr@bsd.cafe
2025-12-17

Starting to think that using #OpenHAB for my "smarthome" for my case is kinda overkill…

I have some sensors (temperature and humidity), some reed switches for windows and possibly I'll add thermostats for heating batteries (because here, even with 0°C outside, the central heating works for all the money and it is impossible to sleep and work without all opened windows). All things are using #ZigBee so my #server uses some ZigBee coordinator dongle and #zigbee2mqtt with some MQTT broker inside. I already able to read all necessary data from sensors by reading the right MQTT topics.

And the OpenHAB just communicates with my MQTT broker and displays some nice widgets on the Web UI. This is cool, because I don't need to think about how to work with MQTT and how to output data — all somehow works "by magic".

But the price is very big. The OpenHAB eats near 600 MB of RAM and swaps a lot (near 1 GB for now). It is a largest memory consuming service in my server, which has only 2 GB of RAM (and a RAM prices already increased here :drgn_sigh: ). And also it's sandbox takes near 3.5 GB of SSD space.

So, do I really need not to think about how it all works under the hood while wearing out my SSD or get some services OOMed if I disable swap and start e.g. using BorgBackup? Looks like the game is not worth the candle. I can literally pick #EclipseMosquitto #C library, unwrap some memories about how to use CGI and get the same nice page with sensors data and some logic inside. But with a waaaay less memory footprint and with possibility to open this page from #Dillo :drgn_happy_blep:

#SelfHosting

OpenHAB page with two well-drawn barometer+thermometer, showing data for living room and kitchen. And a small widget below, showing state of windows (one green and opened and other yellow and closed).OpenHAB page showing battery levels for my phone, for temperature/humidity sensors and for reed switcher. Each record has a nice looking battery icon, showing a level of battery for the each device.Top output from my server. The java process (belongs to OpenHAB) eats 615 MB of wired memory and 5.96% of CPU.
The swap has 1157 MB used and 879 MB free.The output of "du -hs" for catalog with OpenHAB sandbox — the size of this catalog is 3.5 GB.
2025-12-11
I tell you what using #dillo to view your website certainly points out issues you never knew you had. This is going to be a great help to improve my site.
2025-12-11
Just testing #dillo from my #snac instance and It is good but some things don't work as expected. For instance if I get a notification and then like it. The button does not change to unlike until I reload the page. Also my hacky back to the top of page links that work in other browsers do nothing in dillo. They are basically as below.

https://justine.smithies.me.uk/#

I also noticed that all the admin tabs at the top of the snac admin page are all open taking up screen real estate.
I'm not complaining merely poiting out some of my findings and there is probably good reason that I don't know about why these work they way they do.

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