Brow6el: A Full-Featured Chromium Web Browser Running Inside Your Terminal
Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium
I built Brow6el, a full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium that supports Sixel and Kitty graphics protocols. It offers vim-style modal controls, a JavaScript console, and mouse emulation, allowing you to browse modern websites with full HTML5 support directly in your command line. While remote SSH performance can be limited by data transfer, running it locally on terminals like foot or Kitty delivers a surprisingly responsive graphical experience.
Grid mode enables precise element selection with just 3-4 keystrokes, combining speed with accuracy.
- yjftsjthsd-h
> WARNING: Kitty image support (currently only in main branch builds) by its design nature is barelly usable in SSH when brow6el runs on remote host, this feature is usable when brow6el is executed on localhost. On ssh the responsivenes of browser is significantly affected, due to massive data transfers on each frame rendered
But it's fine in the default Sixel?
- angeldimitrov94
I just don't understand...what is the use case of this? I thought it would be something that cleverly renders text without style in a minimalist-browser sort of way. But this just literally...shows you the web page...in the CLI? I'm confused.
- tim-projects
I don't like the name. Can suggest renaming to insane browser because this is actually insane in a good way. :)
What happens if you run it in a TTY ? Does it fail to render anything?