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Chawan

A text-mode web browser. It displays websites in your terminal and allows you to navigate on them.

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  • Mac
  • Linux
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  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Minimalistic

Features

  1.  Command line interface
  2.  Ad-free
  3.  No registration required
  4.  No Tracking
  5.  Block Trackers
  6.  Tui
  7.  Text-web-browser
  8.  Terminal-based

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What is Chawan?

A text-mode web browser. It displays websites in your terminal and allows you to navigate on them.

It can also be used as a terminal pager.

Currently implemented features are:

  • multi-processing, incremental loading of documents
  • multi-charset, double-width aware text display (but no bi-di yet)
  • HTML5 support, forms, cookies
  • CSS-based layout engine: supports flow layout, table layout, flexbox layout
  • user-programmable keybindings (defaults are vi(m)-like)
  • basic JavaScript support in documents (disabled by default for security reasons)
  • inline image support with sixel/kitty protocols (disabled by default; see doc/image.md on how to enable)
  • supports several protocols: HTTP(S), FTP, Gopher, Gemini, Finger, etc.
  • user-defined protocols and file formats
  • markdown viewer, man page viewer
  • mouse support
  • syscall filter based sandboxing on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux (through capsicum, pledge and seccomp-bpf)
  • bookmarks