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I use it very often, and it looks very promising. If you are into \u201ebrowsing the web in terminal\u201c, you should try it.", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Text-Based Web Browsers"}, {"id": 745571312, "item_id": 46598207, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598207", "by": "dieggsy", "date": "2026-01-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "chawan[1] is really quite neat", "excerpt": "The top comment in the article mentions it, but chawan[1] is really quite neat. Many sites are still have their quirks (or may be broken), but I think it's the closest I've seen a text browser approximate a \"real\" browser. The support for CSS, JS, and images (depends on your terminal) is already quite impressive even if imperfect. To my knowledge it's an actual browser implementation rather than \"cheating\" by using a", "context": "", "use_case": "Terminal web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Text-Based Web Browsers"}, {"id": 733309088, "item_id": 45831818, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45831818", "by": "be_erik", "date": "2025-11-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use this one pretty often. It\u2019s great.", "excerpt": "I use this one pretty often. It\u2019s great. https://chawan.net/", "context": "", "use_case": "TUI web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ratatui \u2013 App Showcase"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 784419170, "item_id": 49026198, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026198", "by": "westurner", "date": "2026-07-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I don't think any of these text-based web browsers are actively maintained", "excerpt": "I don't think any of these text-based web browsers are actively maintained; \"Show HN: Browsh \u2013 A modern, text-based browser\" (2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17487552 browsh-org/browsh: A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh \"Forking Chrome to render in a terminal\" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34547259 fathyb/carbonyl: Chromium r", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["terminal web browsing", "tui web browser"], "compared": [{"slug": "browsh", "name": "Browsh", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 796554256, "item_id": 49784641, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49784641", "by": "shiomiru", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "my hobby project chawan[1] supports capsicum :)", "excerpt": "> No browsers on FreeBSD today use Capsicum. Strictly speaking, that's false, my hobby project chawan[1] supports capsicum :) Anyway, IME capsicum vs pledge doesn't make much of a difference because seccomp already forces you into a specific sandbox architecture; after implementing that, adjusting the result to support the rest takes (relatively) little effort. 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I use it very often, and it looks very promising. If you are into \u201ebrowsing the web in terminal\u201c, you should try it.", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Text-Based Web Browsers"}, {"id": 745571312, "item_id": 46598207, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598207", "by": "dieggsy", "date": "2026-01-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "chawan[1] is really quite neat", "excerpt": "The top comment in the article mentions it, but chawan[1] is really quite neat. Many sites are still have their quirks (or may be broken), but I think it's the closest I've seen a text browser approximate a \"real\" browser. The support for CSS, JS, and images (depends on your terminal) is already quite impressive even if imperfect. 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