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Using #w3m to debug my VM setup in a #nixos test feeling like a hacker.

Interacting with #miniflux with #w3m is SO darn satisfying. #SmolWeb — #microblogging #MicroToot:       68 characters

@nathanael @joel I did a quick test with #w3m and to my surprise it works and doesn't look too bad.

Bookmarked.

@evgandr

Hey bud, IIRC, I couldn't get it working. :/

Looking at my past statuses with the #brutaldon hashtag, it looks like I got it working with #NetSurf and #w3m, but I don't see anything from (nor recall getting it working with) #Dillo. :/

#w3m v0.5.6 is released

https://lists.sr.ht/~rkta/w3m-announce/%[email protected]%3E

Servo 2025 Stats
https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-2025-stats/

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

😆 Ah, the #nostalgia of text-based browsers! This writer's love letter to #Lynx and #w3m is a trip down memory lane, where CSS is a four-letter word and *JavaScript* is a myth. 🚀 Spoiler: They don't matter, but hey, enjoy your pixelated, featureless web, grandpa! 🔍
https://cssence.com/2026/text-based-web-browsers/ #textbasedbrowsers #retroweb #pixelatedweb #HackerNews #ngated

@rl_dane @stefano

The javascript tool yt-dlp uses is deno

Ill play with it later in the day

https://deno.com/

#sh #shell #bash #csh #ksh #zsh #programming #technology #deno #fedimeteo #weather #w3m #sed #tr #pipe

@rl_dane
@stefano

I should be able to do the same with the w3 tool that yt-dlp uses to fetch YouTube videos. I've looked for a practical use case to write a small program with that tool and you've just given me one 😊

#sh #shell #bash #csh #ksh #zsh #programming #fedimeteo #weather #w3m #sed #tr #pipe

@rl_dane @admin
@stefano

Interesting method; you use w3m tr head sed and a verical pipe to format the output for your favourite sh

https://linux.die.net/man/1/w3m

#sh #shell #bash #csh #ksh #zsh #programming #fedimeteo #weather #w3m #sed #tr #pipe

printf "%s\n" 'e !sort -u %' wq | ed -s skip; w3m -dump 'https://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2025/webm-hd/' | awk '/\[[0-9]+\] https:.*webm-hd.*\.webm$/{print $2}' | sort | comm -23 - skip | tee urls | while read -r u; do echo $u; grep -Fq "$u" skip && continue; wget -c "$u" && echo $u >> skip; done

Downloading recorded talks from #39c3 using #ed #w3m #awk and other #unix tooling <3

Thought about replacing #wget with #curl but old dogs and such...

I'm going crazy: i just discovered that even a text browser like w3m get icons like the ones in this page...
https://html-css-js.com/html/character-codes/icons/

#w3m #TextBrowser #icons #ascii

Le 6 février, je proposerai un atelier à la journée de l’écoconception numérique organisée par les @designersethiques intitulé « Les navigateurs web textuels : une alternative radicale face à la surcharge du web ? »

On va parler histoire des navigateurs web, découvrir les protocoles #gopher et #gemini, et surtout pratiquer avec #lynx et #w3m 🧑‍💻

Pour prendre vos billets, c'est par ici : https://journee-ecoconception-numerique.fr/2026/atelier-6

Closing W3m Tabs The Right Way

https://lesssalt.srht.site/w3m/w3m_delete_tab/

One might argue if this really is the right way, though.

#w3m #browser #blog

This[127] is the first release candidate for w3m v0.5.6.

Please test and report any problems to the mailing list[0].

You can also find all these patches in branch v0.5.6rc1 at [1] or [2].

Thanks to lesssalt, chimera lover, skejg and all others for their
contributions and feedback!

[127]: https://lists.sr.ht/~rkta/w3m/%3C20251[email protected]%3E
[1]: ~rkta/[email protected].
[2]: https://git.rkta.de
[3]: https://git.sr.ht/~rkta/w3m

#w3m #browser #opensource #pager #console #tui #www #web

I wonder how other #maintainer handle the version bump for release candidates. I'm planning a RC for #w3m but want to avoid multiple commits updating the configure script just to bump from rc1 to rc2 to release.

#opensource #FreeSoftware

The more I use the internet, the more I LOVE #w3m browser. How can a browser like Chromium take so much resources when it is serving a single html page? I don't know, but it takes a lot of resources, and #curl would be enough, while sometimes is useful to get the html files, to read them offline, w3m is useful to open several tabs and follow links. My use of computers on internet are like this. Even for this platform I use #toot. I think I will remove all #linux and substitute them with #OpenBSD

Okay...how do other folks decide between different terminal-based web browsers?

Lynx is the one that gets mentioned the most on fedi. It also has by far the highest popcon on Debian.

It seems Lynx is part of the same family tree as links, links2, and elinks. Trying all of them, I really don't see much difference between Lynx and Links: the only differences I notice are that they use different default colors for text, and links has a smaller file size.

Links2 can run in either graphical or terminal mode. I can't use the graphical mode due to a lack of dark mode. The terminal version of link2 seems identical to links: is there even a difference?

Elinks, when used as a web browser, seems nearly identical to the other three, aside from a different color scheme. Its website claims it supports CSS and JS, but I haven't seen those actually make a difference on a real website. Elinks can also work as a gemini and gopher browser, which is a nice perk.

Outside of the links/lynx/elinks family, Debian has a few more terminal browsers.

Edbrowse can let you load the text of a website and then edit it? It also works with geminispace.

Netrik does not appear to work with https: it works fine with plain http.

w3m, with the image extension, can display images inline in the terminal, which looks weird. Without the image extension, I don't notice much difference between w3m any the links family, aside from again a different color scheme.

Overall, I don't see what makes Lynx stand out from all the other terminal browsers. Yet both fedi and Debian users seem to strongly prefer it. What criteria are other fedicreatures using to compare terminal web browsers?


#WebBrowsers #TerminalBrowsers #Lynx #Links #Links2 #Elinks #Netrik #Edbrowse #W3m #geminiprotocol #gopher

#w3m is released. This is an important bug fix release! See https://git.sr.ht/~rkta/w3m/refs/v0.5.5 for the details.

#ELinks with `-dump-color-mode 2 -colors 1` has colors and numbered links

#links2 with `-html-numbered-links 1` is monochrome, but has numbered links

#Lynx too, but its output looks more messy to me.

#w3m doesn't highlight links and doesn't output link URLs at all.

#Pandoc can't handle table layouts, which unfortunately are still very common in commercial emails.

#HTML2Text (the C++ tool, https://gitlab.com/grobian/html2text) does a decent job and supports bold & underline in `less` and NeoMutt's pager.

#w3m version 0.5.4 is released, see https://git.sr.ht/~rkta/w3m/refs/v0.5.4 for all the details. See NEWS for a summary of user facing changes.

Thanks to anyone who contributed!

Chawanというターミナルウェブブラウザを知りました．

メモリセーフなNimで実?

されていてライセンスはパブリックドメインです．

同じようにターミナル上で動作するw3mやLynx系との大きな違いはJavaScriptやCSSに対応している辺りでしょうか．SixelやKittyのターミナル画像形式にも対応しています．

少し試してみました．

Chawan: TUI web browser

chawan: TUI Web Browser

chawan – A TUI web browser.

[…]

https://matoken.org/blog/2025/06/20/try-chawan-a-terminal-web-browser-that-supports-images-javascript-css-etc/

@venya Have you tried using #W3M, it's a really capable text-mode web browser.

@thedaemon definitely #w3m

@9vlc Congrats to your website.

Minor 'duty calls'[0] moment for me: #w3m does support frames, you have to enable it in the options though. Or start with 'w3m -o frame=1'.

[0]: https://xkcd.com/386/

YAY, looking forward to having an up-to-date #KDE #Plasma desktop on #Debian this summer! <3

from https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=plasma%2Ddesktop

     Package plasma-desktop

      • buster (oldoldstable) (kde): Tools and widgets for the desktop
        4:5.14.5.1-1: amd64 arm64 armhf i386
      • bullseye (oldstable) (kde): Tools and widgets for the desktop
        4:5.20.5-4+deb11u1: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 mips64el mipsel ppc64el s390x
      • bookworm (stable) (kde): Tools and widgets for the desktop
        4:5.27.5-2: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 mips64el mipsel ppc64el s390x
      • trixie (testing) (kde): Tools and widgets for the desktop
        4:6.3.0-1: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 mips64el ppc64el riscv64 s390x
      • sid (unstable) (kde): Tools and widgets for the desktop
        4:6.3.2-2+b1: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 ppc64 ppc64el s390x

#ILoveTerminalWebBrowsers #w3m #chawan

@jbz

Also a big fan of #lynx, #w3m, links, #xlinks, and #chawan.

Charming. After I finally managed to get #lynx to display umlauts, I discovered a reference to an improved version of #w3m in a discussion round. It's called #chawan and is a #TUI #browser for #Linux that only needs "cha" to start.

When I used it to access my blog, I was amazed at the output. That's how great #Internet can be in the #terminal. Now I'll surf on the console even more often ;-)

https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/

Charmant. Nachdem es mir gelang, dass #lynx endlich Umlaute darstellte, entdeckte ich in einer Diskussionsrunde den Hinweis auf eine verbesserte Version von #w3m. Nennt sich #chawan und ist ein #TUI #Browser für #Linux, der zum Starten aber nur "cha" benötigt.

Als ich mein Blog damit ansteuerte, habe ich die Ausgabe wirklich mit offenem Mund bestaunt. So toll kann #Internet im #Terminal sein. Jetzt werde ich noch häufiger auf der Konsole surfen ;-)

https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/

Ten years ago, there were so many #OJ providing interesting and challenging problems, with a ugly, crude but clear UI.

I visited some today. Glad they didn't delete my accounts. But they applied advanced frontend tech to build a fancy UI, and filled the site with leetcode-easy-level problems and training courses.

Seems that #USACO is the only site that remained the legacy UI - it still works well in #w3m ! Well, it's domain has changed to usaco.training from http://train.usaco.org

#OI

@tedu
For some reason I ended up with elinks as my fav txt-browser. Don't know if the same problems occur there.

With a server Browsh rules the modern world. Try ssh'ing into brow.sh for a test ride!

#TextBrowsers #TextBased #lynx #w3m #elinks #browsh