After a search in the NetBSD packages for lightweight web browsers, the winners are: vimb, dillo, luakit and netsurf.
Dillo's new release 3.1.0 still hasn't landed, so no HTTPS there. Luakit is very neat, extremely lightweight, minimal, has vim-like bindings and would be perfect if it weren't for the constant white flashing between each pageload when using a custom, darker CSS. NetSurf is also quite neat, with tab support for heavier sessions.
The winner for me is vimb, which although leaving tabs to the window manager, has vim-like bindings, is pretty minimal and does not cause flashing when switching between pages on a custom darker CSS setting.
Honor mention to Arctic Fox, a Pale Moon clone that hits peak nostalgia with the pre-omnibar Firefox look. No theming, not as lightweight, but going strong at 29.5k commits since 2018.
#Dillo 3.1.0 is now available in the repositories of Arch Linux, Alpine, Fedora, FreeBSD Ports, Homebrew, Majeia, Manjaro, Nixpkgs, NetBSD (pkgsrc), OpenBSD Ports, OpenMandriva and Void Linux.
Still waiting for Debian (and derived distros) to catch up.
Thanks to all volunteers who helped updating to the new version :blobcathug:
🌐 Dillo 3.1 Lightweight Web Browser Released After Nine Years
— @phoronix
"Dillo is a lightweight web browser making use of the FLTK toolkit and is cross-platform, maintains few dependencies, and implements its own rendering engine"
I want #dillo to become a real alternative to major browsers. That'd be pretty healthy for the web.
And you know, then there will be dillo Pocket integration and dillo VPN services and stuff, but just before that, peak dillo. Looking forward to it.
the #dillo browser after dealing with the loss of a core developer and the entire project going out and having to be revived by a new developer, as well as the original website being taken over by wordpress SEO slop...
released a new version after 9 years!!! and they are on fedi!
their website said to spread the word in order to support dillo, and you know what? i didn't know they were still at it, so now you know too. so go try it if you have some supremely crappy hardware, i know i do and dillo runs great on it.
Here at Emacs.ch we run an experimental side instance [1] based on Snac2 [2], which is a Mastodon-compatible Fediverse server written in C, runs completly file-based and features a zero-JS UI.
It doesn't have many of the fancy features of Mastodon, but is a bright example of how a super-minimal system can do the job very well. It'll also work with your mobile Mastodon apps and small browsers like Dillo[3].
It runs on OpenBSD and we accept a few more testers. There is no automatic sign-up, so if you are interested, DM me with the desired account name and I'll send you the credentials.