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Comment by 🚀 stack

Re: "Looking for an alternative, smolweb inspired, web..."

In: s/SmallWeb

The only thing I personally miss in gemtext is boldface and tables, and I am constantly wrangling with the fixed-font tables!

🚀 stack

18 hours ago

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❄ freezr [OP] · 17 hours ago:

@stack I would like to have a simple browser to open Mastodon, Diaspora, a couple of fora (Devuan, FreeBSD), Phoronix and an Italian newspaper... The fact is 90% of my internet browsing is made through an SBC and the browser is the Achilles' heel...

— omg.pebcak.club/~freezr/gemlog/2023-12-06-stealthbox-with-devuan-and-libre-computer-renegade.gmi

For anything else I would use LibreWolf... 😉

😺 gemalaya · 10 hours ago:

@freezr LibreWolf run through flatpak is not too bad. With Ghostery, UBlock, Privacy Badger, Dark Reader, DNS over HTTPS ...

💀 requiem · 9 hours ago:

If you can offload the computing required for adblocking to eg a local PiHole or to NextDNS or an adblocking VPN then you can significantly speed up your browsing experience on the SBC.

☕️ tenno-seremel · 9 hours ago:

@freezr I don’t think “simple” is enough for Mastodon. It’s JS‐heavy. You don’t even have a basic HTML version if you don’t have JS enabled (there was in the past, but alas). Your best bet is a dedicated client, IMO.

🐙 norayr · 8 hours ago:

requiem, thank you for mentioning ladybird. i didn't know about it.

🐙 norayr · 8 hours ago:

requiem, i made some research and i think ladybird is based on chrome. it's not a completely newly written browser, as i first thought and was a bit inspired by it.

🐙 norayr · 7 hours ago:

freezr, i hope one day i will write the gemlog, on how to install an oberon system to an arm board, and how to use gemini on it.

🐙 norayr · 7 hours ago:

techno-seremel, i am quite sure i have saw js free mastodon frontend, but alas, i lost the link, so i cannot link to it. :/

😈 dimkr · 6 hours ago:

https://gitlab.com/brutaldon/brutaldon

❄ freezr [OP] · 6 hours ago:

@gemalaya the problem is the hardware I use to run LW, I would need something lighter...

💀 requiem · 5 hours ago:

Hmmm; I looked through the GitHub repo and their blog and I see no use of Chrome. What brought you to that conclusion?

— Project description

❄ freezr [OP] · 4 hours ago:

@requiem I may try this route but my internet comes from Android USB tethering... 🤔

❄ freezr [OP] · 4 hours ago:

@tenno-seremel now my main client for the Fediverse is Friendica, and I don't believe it exists any desktop client... 🤷‍♂️

Original Post

🌒 s/SmallWeb

Looking for an alternative, smolweb inspired, web browser... 🙏 — Hello folks, I am currently using LibreWolf but unfortunately it is still Firefox. I tested other alternative browsers and the best one I found has been: Surf; however it didn't match all my needs, which are: smaller footprint fast & light, alternative UI toolkit tab support ADS & Tracker block sock5 support easy bookmarking JavaScript support Usually lightweight browsers, like Dillo, does not support JavaScript therefore it is...

💬 freezr · 25 comments · 1 like · May 25 · 2 days ago