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Text based browser that runs JavaScript
// , Consider brow.sh, because of its low bandwidth but extremely flexible support for different kinds of web pages:
https://www.brow.sh
It also has a clever way of using True color support in ...
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Is there a browser which supports isolating tabs?
Firefox 57 AKA "Firefox Quantum" now allows isolating tabs by introducing a "Contextual identities" AKA "Containers" API for extensions. Mozilla has released the Firefox ...
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Linux text-only web browser that renders images in ASCII art
Maybe you're satisfied with Browsh:
&...
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Linux text-only web browser that renders images in ASCII art
The browser Browsh suggested by user simhumileco looks OK but the images are very low resolution.
Other suggestions are:
Lynx can be configured to display images using aaview or cacaview.
w3m can be ...
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Is there a browser which supports isolating tabs?
Ghost Browser was designed specifically for the purpose of multilogin. Every time you open a new tab, you can put it into a new Session. (disclaimer: I'm the founder)
The new tab will be a separate ...
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Text based browser that runs JavaScript
2017 solution:
Here's a solution for rendering html+js in the terminal:
Required:
Chrome 59 or greater
Using chrome in headless mode allows you to render a page with javascript through the terminal!
(...
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Maximum security web browser
Tor Browser is slow because of the overhead of the Tor anonymizing overlay network, so it is probably not what you are looking for.
Brave is an open source, cross-platform web browser for Windows, ...
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Alternative to Firefox and Chrome with an element inspector?
The problem with "trustworthy" is that trust isn't something one can be recommended to...it's something that you gotta have. (I didn't watch the video but I'm sure you can technically do a rant about ...
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Is there a dark mode browser extension that works in an opt-in way?
Dark Reader
It's available for both Firefox and Chrome
Use Invert listed only if you wish Dark Reader to work only on listed websites.
https://darkreader.org/help/en/#site-list
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Light stable browser for Windows
Pale Moon
It is Firefox based. I've tried many Firefox and Chromium based browsers and Pale Moon is my favourite out of all of them. It's much lighter than Firefox. Finding addons compatible with ...
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Minimalist Web browser: No tabs, no plugins, no bookmarks
Microsoft HTML Help
The hh.exe is the Windows program used to display compiled help, but it can also browse the web without any plugins, tabs, bookmarks, etc.
Just go to Run... (Win+R) and type:
hh ...
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Web-browser for heavy browsing, alternative to Chrome
I came across the Brave browser which promises faster Web by banishing intrusive ads, stripping away everything but the real content.
Background: Brendan Eich, who invented JavaScript and co-founded ...
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Web browser extension to minimize memory usage
What you need is the Auto Unload Tab Firefox extension.
It does exactly what you want: It allows you to free memory occupied by tabs that have not used for a length of time you get to specify.
Image ...
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A web search from the Linux command line
What's wrong with Lynx? Try this: lynx http://www.google.com/search?q=search+from+commandline :) Basically, once you know the URL syntax for performing a search, you can call it directly.
To make ...
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What web browsers support a feature similar to Chrome's People?
It's possible in firefox with the profile manager see details.
You might use some firefox extensions like multifox to make it easyer
Other browsers built with blink engine are able to do that thanks ...
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Web browser that creates independent sessions for each new window?
Ghost Browser might be what you are looking for. It is a Chrome-like browser with special Multi-Session Browsing.
While it does not open a new session for each new window, you can have as many ...
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Download Router extension for Firefox web browser
You can safely dump Chrome... allow me to introduce you to Firefox's Save In... extension.
The summary on AMO is well written:
Adds a context menu to save media {image, video, audio, link, ...
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What is a good browser for a publicly accessible computer?
Probably the best option would be to run a cut down Linux installation with Chrome/Chromium or Firefox that runs in RAM only, starts straight into the browser and then reboots on exit.
It will be ...
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Web browser without disk cache
Firefox
Open about:config
Set browser.cache.disk.enable to false
Set browser.cache.memory.enable to true
Give some more space to memory cache if you like (defaults to 32M):
Create a new Integer entry ...
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Firefox or Chrome extension that clicks on webpage links with the keyboard (no mouse involved)
The Vimium C Web Extension by Dahan Gong has been updated more recently than other similar extensions (it was just updated 4 days ago).
Description from Mozilla's Firefox Add-ons Site (AMO):
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Command-line web browser
There is links.
It's Free Software, runs on Debian, renders images (in graphics mode), colours, and doesn't necessarily use the framebuffer.
However, I think it lacks extensions.
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Text based browser that runs JavaScript
As of v0.23, Web Adjuster has a PhantomJS option, which can partially Javascript-enable any browser with the help of PhantomJS. I say "partially" because it's not (yet?) working with POST ...
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Monitor bandwidth used per site
Use GlassWire's Firewall Software.
It shows the bandwidth per server and per app.
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Headless browser for Java that can execute JavaScript on a page
If you install a headless browser such phantomjs or slimerjs on the machine you can use a CasperJS interface to control it.
There's a jUnit-CasperJS project on Github that can be convenient for this ...
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Portable single executable browser alternative to QtWeb
I hate to answer my own question, but here are the results of my research. I won't accept this as an answer for a while in case someone does recommend a proper replacement that fulfils my requirements....
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Software to compress, and browse, a website with 1000s of pages
One possibility, which I have to admit I haven't tried, is to use just about any compression software that can create a ISO or ZIP file, some of the mount tools can do this for you and some support ...
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Task Switcher for Windows & Browser Tabs
I have a setup that does this that I use every day.
I see the problem as MRU or spatial are not going to work once the windows+tabs get above around 10. At that point you need symbolic.
The real ...
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A web search from the Linux command line
As Izzy point out, doing a web search directly on lynx works like a charm. However, if you are not comfortable with that solution, googler can do what you asked (but for searching google only). You ...
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Bookmarker that saves the page HTML for offline archive
Scrapbook (Firefox)
This extension is quite famous, it has even got a Wikipedia entry. The following description is from Firefox add-ons:
ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save ...
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Browser for AMD Athlon without SSE2 instruction set
I'd stick with the 12.x version. I'm running 12.16 quite happily on Gentoo with an AthlonXP barton.
I really like the AthlonXP series of processors, I have several. Sadly, SSE2 seems to be some ...
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