Mal segen was aus Dillo wird... 😀
#dillobrowser
“Show HN: Resurrecting The Dillo Browser” [2024], Rodrigo Arias, Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847613).
Possibly under rated benefit of using the Dillo browser: not using JavaScript means that it doesn't load ads well
Welcome! Here are some toots where I discover some helpful #dillo configuration options:
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01K3YBWR5XE7N781P9F7432VP7
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01K3EQQ78KJG4E07KP74Y6Q0VE
Me in 2002: Dillo looks nice, and is way faster than Mozilla, but I don't think I can ever use it as my main browser.
Me in 2025: Dillo go brrrrr! XD
WHOA, I just tried to do a simple currency conversion using DuckDuckGo in #Dillo, and the very first search result gave me the answer!
NO JAVASCRIPT!!!
WOO HOOO!!!
TONIGHT WE GONNA BE WEBBIN' LIKE IT NINETEEN NINETY NINE (whoa, I've SERIOUSLY come full circle with that song. XD )
EAT THAT, BROWSER FINGERPRINTING!
EAT THAT, TRACKER COOKIES!
EAT THAT, INSCRUTABLE PILES OF MINIFIED, CRAPIFIED JS!
GO SUCK A TAILPIPE, SOULLESS SIBILANT SCUM-SUCKING SILICON VALLEY SUITS!
EAT MY ALLITERATIVE DRUM SOLO!
I AM FREE!!! XD
Or, you could just, you know, eat my shorts, GOOG.
Man, they used to let you search without JS.
Nerfherders.
The thing is, this is for my personal computers. 99% of the time, no shopping, no banking, just looking stuff up in wikipedia, reading articles, reading friends' blogs...
dude, it's almost perfect! Sites that won't work in dillo won't work in terminal browsers I was using before it, and are not the kind of sites I want to be spending any time on 90% of the time on my personal machines.
It's such a cranky, anachronistic, beautiful little gift! XD
I mean, and I can have dozens of tabs open and it uses like 100MiB RAM.
HA!
Edit: corrected a small diction mistake, which was driving me nuts every time I saw someone favorite this toot and I re-read it. XD
I can't believe it myself, but yes, I've made #Dillo my default browser on my personal laptops. It's never been my default, even though I've used it occasionally, off-and-on, for 25 years. XD
I still fire up #LibreWolf (#firefox fork) occasionally on those machines, but #DilloBrowser fits in this neat space between terminal browsers and "full-fat" browsers like Librewolf and #luakit.
I'm just wishing it had a "follow mode" for following links from the keyboard, and wondering if there was some way to make it use the clipboard by default, instead of primary selection. I don't quite understand why classic X11 programs use primary selection so much. XD
Hey #DilloBrowser peeps,
Does anyone have a sample ~/.dillo/style.css that defines a basic black-on-white color scheme? I couldn't find where the default colors are defined in the source code. (I mean, I was just searching for a css file in the repo :D )
Update: this worked swimmingly:
$ cat .dillo/style.css
* {
color: #000!important;
background-color: #fff!important;
}
Update 2: This works a little better, as it doesn't override anything, but still makes the default black-on-white:
* {
color: #000;
background-color: #fff;
}
(Thanks @amin)
Configure Dillo Browser for High Dots Per Inch (HiDPI) Displays
Improve the web browsing experience by learning about solutions in configuring the web browser Dillo for High Dots Per Inch (HiDPI) monitor displays.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/dillo-browser-configure-hidpi/
#blog #DilloBrowser #HiDPI #TechSupport #RetroComputing @rl_dane
#DilloBrowser peeps,
Is there any way to force-increase the DPI in #Dillo? I'm using wayland fractional scaling with KDE Plasma, and the interface is super teensy. :D
My ~/.dillo/keysrc for vi-like/less-like navigation, in case it helps anyone :D
space = screen-down
b = screen-up
<shift>space = screen-up
j = line-down
k = line-up
K = top
# no way to handle 'gg', but just 'g' works ;)
g = top
G = bottom
h = left
l = right
/ = find
H = back
L = forward
Trying browser alternatives...
#Dillo: the GOAT. Very basic, but crazy fast. Lacks modern less/vi-style keyboard navigation
Update: Dillo's keybinds are pretty flexible, and the config files is pretty easy to understand. #TIL!!
#NetSurf: a bit more compatible with the modern web, pretty comfy to use, but also lacking the keyboard navigation features I'm really used to and loving in plugins like Vimium
#LuaKit: #WebKit-based. Capable and modern, yet fairly lightweight. The scrollbar is an abomination, though. What even is that? iOS?!? Also, turning off JS turns off a lot of features in the browser, last time I tried it
#XLinks: lacks CSS, but is very usable for basic sites. Keybinds are nonstandard, but usable
#chawan: probably the best terminal browser out there I've seen so far, but sometimes you really want a graphical browser with terminal-ish features, instead
P.S., Thanks to @evgandr, I have learned that you can customize #DilloBrowser's keybinds! Fantastic stuff!!
I've known about the Dillo web browser for a very long time and have used it occasionally, but it's only this week that I learned about Dillo+
https://github.com/crossbowerbt/dillo-plus
It supports gemini, gopher, markdown and rss - but no javascript (which is great!)
New #blog post: My Favorite GUI Programs
https://rldane.space/my-favorite-gui-programs.html
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This is one of those fun cases where one blost begets another one in pretty rapid succession.
Nothing deep, just a fun little jaunt through computing memory lane.
I have Dave's toot to thank for the genesis of this post.
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #writing #GUI #Macintosh #Windows #Linux #RetroComputing #Choplifter #MacPaint #HyperCard #MSPaint #Dillo #DilloBrowser
I just discovered [rdrview], a command-line "reader view" for websites, and I absolutely love it. Absolutely going to be a part of my terminal-life arsenal from now on. It cuts through a lot of the visual cruft you're subjected to when viewing websites on the terminal.
Kudos to @bbbhltz for turning me on to it via his excellent [post on Dillo].
cc: @amin
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