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I love retro projects like this. I use Dillo daily, although it is for internal use. One thing I use it for is to view gemini protocol sites. The plug-in architecture means that you can render any protocol; gopher and gemini amongst others. It's so lightweight!", "context": "", "use_case": "viewing gemini protocol sites", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0"}, {"id": 738824641, "item_id": 46176540, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176540", "by": "marttt", "date": "2025-12-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "my all-time favorite web browser, Dillo", "excerpt": "I like using old hardware, and Tiny Core was my daily driver for 5+ years on a Thinkpad T42 (died recently) and Dell Mini 9 (still working). I tried other distros on those machines, but eventually always came back to TC. 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I was able to run modern firefox on that 1 gb puny laptop too but it took 800 megabits of ram but I was able to run https://pomodorokitty.com/ on it.", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing on old laptop", "switched_from": "", "story": "Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo"}, {"id": 783298114, "item_id": 48956132, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956132", "by": "MayeulC", "date": "2026-07-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to mostly use Dillo and elinks", "excerpt": "I still use my Samsung n130, though I went with Alpine after Arch dropped support for 32 bit (there were a few pain points with Arch 32 in the early days, I tried guix but it was too slow and guix uses a lot of RAM during updates). It works decently, is sufficient for ssh-ing into other hosts. Though web browsing is a pain. I used to mostly use Dillo and elinks, MPV+yt-dlp for videos. Unfortunately I left it sit for ", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing on netbook", "switched_from": "", "story": "Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux"}]}, {"text": " and for its plugin system that adds protocols like Gemini and Gopher.", "cites": [{"id": 766713728, "item_id": 47919608, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919608", "by": "blippage", "date": "2026-04-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Dillo daily", "excerpt": "A huge thank-you to the dev(s)! I love retro projects like this. I use Dillo daily, although it is for internal use. One thing I use it for is to view gemini protocol sites. The plug-in architecture means that you can render any protocol; gopher and gemini amongst others. It's so lightweight!", "context": "", "use_case": "viewing gemini protocol sites", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0"}, {"id": 745583792, "item_id": 46598987, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598987", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-01-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's a really barebones one and thanks to DPI and dilloc it can be really powerful", "excerpt": "Dillo uses something similar with rdrview, you can use rdrview://$URL (altough I hacked the dpi plugin to use the rd:// 'protocol' for shortness). It lacks the filter thingy but now has the dilloc tool where it can print the current URL, open a new page... and with sed you can trivially reopen a page with an alternative from https://farside.link You know, medium.com -> scribe.rip and the like. But Dillo is not a term", "context": "", "use_case": "lightweight browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Text-Based Web Browsers"}]}, {"text": " The most common caveat is that modern sites often do not render properly.", "cites": [{"id": 738824641, "item_id": 46176540, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176540", "by": "marttt", "date": "2025-12-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "my all-time favorite web browser, Dillo", "excerpt": "I like using old hardware, and Tiny Core was my daily driver for 5+ years on a Thinkpad T42 (died recently) and Dell Mini 9 (still working). I tried other distros on those machines, but eventually always came back to TC. RAM-booting makes the system fast and quiet on that 15+ years old iron, and I loved how easy it was to hand-tailor the OS - e.g. the packages loaded during boot are simply listed in a single flat fil", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing on old hardware", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop"}, {"id": 733329681, "item_id": 45833105, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833105", "by": "catwell", "date": "2025-11-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "However I really like what you've done here for Dillo as well.", "excerpt": "If you're looking for something light, self-hostable and a bit more \"social\" (i.e. with pull requests and bug creation from the web) I recommend looking at https://tangled.org It doesn't render perfectly in Dillo but basic features appear to work. However I really like what you've done here for Dillo as well.", "context": "", "use_case": "web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser"}, {"id": 733229920, "item_id": 45826870, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826870", "by": "kolme", "date": "2025-11-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to use it, like over 20 years ago!", "excerpt": "I used to use it, like over 20 years ago! Mozilla Suite was too slow for my taste and I only reached for it if Dillo couldn't render a page :) IIRC I stopped using it when Firefox (\"Phoenix\" at the time) was released.", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Lightweight", "summary": "Commenters call it very lightweight and use it on old, low-RAM machines.", "quotes": [{"id": 766713728, "item_id": 47919608, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919608", "by": "blippage", "date": "2026-04-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Dillo daily", "excerpt": "A huge thank-you to the dev(s)! I love retro projects like this. I use Dillo daily, although it is for internal use. One thing I use it for is to view gemini protocol sites. The plug-in architecture means that you can render any protocol; gopher and gemini amongst others. 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I was able to run modern firefox on that 1 gb puny laptop too but it took 800 megabits of ram but I was able to run https://pomodorokitty.com/ on it.", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing on old laptop", "switched_from": "", "story": "Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo"}]}, {"label": "Long-time favorite", "summary": "Several commenters use it daily or call it their favorite browser.", "quotes": [{"id": 766713728, "item_id": 47919608, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919608", "by": "blippage", "date": "2026-04-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Dillo daily", "excerpt": "A huge thank-you to the dev(s)! I love retro projects like this. I use Dillo daily, although it is for internal use. One thing I use it for is to view gemini protocol sites. The plug-in architecture means that you can render any protocol; gopher and gemini amongst others. It's so lightweight!", "context": "", "use_case": "viewing gemini protocol sites", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0"}, {"id": 766608560, "item_id": 47913035, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913035", "by": "jmclnx", "date": "2026-04-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use dillo a lot, congratulations!", "excerpt": "I use dillo a lot, congratulations! With these age verification laws and depending upon what Firefox does, dillo could very well be the go-to browser on Linux and BSD. If these laws hit us and Firefox adds logic to verify one's age, I will be 100% dillo.", "context": "Linux/BSD user", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0"}, {"id": 738824641, "item_id": 46176540, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176540", "by": "marttt", "date": "2025-12-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "my all-time favorite web browser, Dillo", "excerpt": "I like using old hardware, and Tiny Core was my daily driver for 5+ years on a Thinkpad T42 (died recently) and Dell Mini 9 (still working). I tried other distros on those machines, but eventually always came back to TC. RAM-booting makes the system fast and quiet on that 15+ years old iron, and I loved how easy it was to hand-tailor the OS - e.g. the packages loaded during boot are simply listed in a single flat fil", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing on old hardware", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop"}]}, {"label": "Protocol plugins", "summary": "The DPI plugin architecture and dilloc tool let it handle Gemini, Gopher and other protocols.", "quotes": [{"id": 766713728, "item_id": 47919608, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919608", "by": "blippage", "date": "2026-04-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Dillo daily", "excerpt": "A huge thank-you to the dev(s)! I love retro projects like this. I use Dillo daily, although it is for internal use. One thing I use it for is to view gemini protocol sites. The plug-in architecture means that you can render any protocol; gopher and gemini amongst others. It's so lightweight!", "context": "", "use_case": "viewing gemini protocol sites", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0"}, {"id": 745583792, "item_id": 46598987, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598987", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-01-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's a really barebones one and thanks to DPI and dilloc it can be really powerful", "excerpt": "Dillo uses something similar with rdrview, you can use rdrview://$URL (altough I hacked the dpi plugin to use the rd:// 'protocol' for shortness). It lacks the filter thingy but now has the dilloc tool where it can print the current URL, open a new page... and with sed you can trivially reopen a page with an alternative from https://farside.link You know, medium.com -> scribe.rip and the like. But Dillo is not a term", "context": "", "use_case": "lightweight browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Text-Based Web Browsers"}]}, {"label": "Privacy", "summary": "Paired with a hosts file, it cuts down ads, cookies and trackers.", "quotes": [{"id": 779916756, "item_id": 48744797, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48744797", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-07-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Dillo and a hosts file cuts down both ads and cookies/trackers", "excerpt": "It's still there, at IRC/Usenet/some niche forums. Replace phreaking with maybe some mesh networks and ways to connect computers without calling an ISP. There are still niche blogs and even phlogs. And you can still use Pidgin and libpurple plugins to connect to a huge array of protocols. Ditto with core Biltbee or Bitlbee+libpurple allowing you to use any IRC client (even the ones without TLS for DOS and Win9X) to c", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "lightweight browsing on netbook", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Modern site rendering", "summary": "Commenters report that some pages, especially newer sites, do not render fully or correctly.", "quotes": [{"id": 738824641, "item_id": 46176540, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176540", "by": "marttt", "date": "2025-12-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "my all-time favorite web browser, Dillo", "excerpt": "I like using old hardware, and Tiny Core was my daily driver for 5+ years on a Thinkpad T42 (died recently) and Dell Mini 9 (still working). I tried other distros on those machines, but eventually always came back to TC. RAM-booting makes the system fast and quiet on that 15+ years old iron, and I loved how easy it was to hand-tailor the OS - e.g. the packages loaded during boot are simply listed in a single flat fil", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing on old hardware", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop"}, {"id": 733329681, "item_id": 45833105, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833105", "by": "catwell", "date": "2025-11-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "However I really like what you've done here for Dillo as well.", "excerpt": "If you're looking for something light, self-hostable and a bit more \"social\" (i.e. with pull requests and bug creation from the web) I recommend looking at https://tangled.org It doesn't render perfectly in Dillo but basic features appear to work. However I really like what you've done here for Dillo as well.", "context": "", "use_case": "web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser"}, {"id": 733229920, "item_id": 45826870, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826870", "by": "kolme", "date": "2025-11-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to use it, like over 20 years ago!", "excerpt": "I used to use it, like over 20 years ago! Mozilla Suite was too slow for my taste and I only reached for it if Dillo couldn't render a page :) IIRC I stopped using it when Firefox (\"Phoenix\" at the time) was released.", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser"}]}, {"label": "Barebones", "summary": "Described as a really barebones browser.", "quotes": [{"id": 745583792, "item_id": 46598987, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598987", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-01-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's a really barebones one and thanks to DPI and dilloc it can be really powerful", "excerpt": "Dillo uses something similar with rdrview, you can use rdrview://$URL (altough I hacked the dpi plugin to use the rd:// 'protocol' for shortness). It lacks the filter thingy but now has the dilloc tool where it can print the current URL, open a new page... and with sed you can trivially reopen a page with an alternative from https://farside.link You know, medium.com -> scribe.rip and the like. But Dillo is not a term", "context": "", "use_case": "lightweight browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Text-Based Web Browsers"}]}], "who": [{"by": "anthk", "context": "HP Mini netbook user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956423", "date": "2026-07-18"}, {"by": "jmclnx", "context": "Linux/BSD user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913035", "date": "2026-04-26"}], "tags": ["for old hardware", "for Linux and BSD users", "for Gemini and Gopher", "for blocking trackers"], "use_cases": ["web browsing", "lightweight browsing", "lightweight web browsing", "web browsing on netbook", "lightweight browsing on netbook", "viewing gemini protocol sites"], "compared": [{"slug": "firefox", "name": "Firefox", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "duckduckgo", "name": "DuckDuckGo", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "mpv", "name": "mpv", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "yt-dlp", "name": "yt-dlp", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "tiny-core-linux", "name": "Tiny Core Linux", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826266", "title": "Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48907063", "title": "Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911977", "title": "Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48744655", "title": "The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597518", "title": "Text-Based Web Browsers", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46258529", "title": "Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 2}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 783302774, "item_id": 48956423, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956423", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-07-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "For the web I use DIllo and a custom build of Otter Browser", "excerpt": "HP mini there, with ZRAM it's really fast. I use Flubox+UXTerm+a bunch of CLI/TUI tools among mpv, nsxiv and mupdf. The OS I use it's hyperbola GNU/Linux, A bit outdated but most modern stuff it's compiled from source. For gaming I have mednafen, frotz, pcsxr, Flare RPG (git), GearHead 1 and 2 and a few more. Oh, and Scummvm with games from Blade Runner to Ultima I-IV, Technobabylon, Virtuaverse, The Longest Journey,", "context": "HP Mini netbook user", "use_case": "lightweight web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux"}, {"id": 783298114, "item_id": 48956132, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956132", "by": "MayeulC", "date": "2026-07-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to mostly use Dillo and elinks", "excerpt": "I still use my Samsung n130, though I went with Alpine after Arch dropped support for 32 bit (there were a few pain points with Arch 32 in the early days, I tried guix but it was too slow and guix uses a lot of RAM during updates). It works decently, is sufficient for ssh-ing into other hosts. Though web browsing is a pain. I used to mostly use Dillo and elinks, MPV+yt-dlp for videos. Unfortunately I left it sit for ", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing on netbook", "switched_from": "", "story": "Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux"}, {"id": 779916756, "item_id": 48744797, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48744797", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-07-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Dillo and a hosts file cuts down both ads and cookies/trackers", "excerpt": "It's still there, at IRC/Usenet/some niche forums. Replace phreaking with maybe some mesh networks and ways to connect computers without calling an ISP. There are still niche blogs and even phlogs. And you can still use Pidgin and libpurple plugins to connect to a huge array of protocols. Ditto with core Biltbee or Bitlbee+libpurple allowing you to use any IRC client (even the ones without TLS for DOS and Win9X) to c", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "lightweight browsing on netbook", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore"}, {"id": 766713728, "item_id": 47919608, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919608", "by": "blippage", "date": "2026-04-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Dillo daily", "excerpt": "A huge thank-you to the dev(s)! I love retro projects like this. I use Dillo daily, although it is for internal use. One thing I use it for is to view gemini protocol sites. The plug-in architecture means that you can render any protocol; gopher and gemini amongst others. It's so lightweight!", "context": "", "use_case": "viewing gemini protocol sites", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0"}, {"id": 766608560, "item_id": 47913035, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913035", "by": "jmclnx", "date": "2026-04-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use dillo a lot, congratulations!", "excerpt": "I use dillo a lot, congratulations! With these age verification laws and depending upon what Firefox does, dillo could very well be the go-to browser on Linux and BSD. If these laws hit us and Firefox adds logic to verify one's age, I will be 100% dillo.", "context": "Linux/BSD user", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0"}, {"id": 745583792, "item_id": 46598987, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598987", "by": "anthk", "date": "2026-01-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's a really barebones one and thanks to DPI and dilloc it can be really powerful", "excerpt": "Dillo uses something similar with rdrview, you can use rdrview://$URL (altough I hacked the dpi plugin to use the rd:// 'protocol' for shortness). It lacks the filter thingy but now has the dilloc tool where it can print the current URL, open a new page... and with sed you can trivially reopen a page with an alternative from https://farside.link You know, medium.com -> scribe.rip and the like. But Dillo is not a term", "context": "", "use_case": "lightweight browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Text-Based Web Browsers"}, {"id": 740188000, "item_id": 46261750, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46261750", "by": "Imustaskforhelp", "date": "2025-12-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used it on my really old dell laptop with tinycore 32 bit and dillo", "excerpt": "I used it on my really old dell laptop with tinycore 32 bit and dillo Awesome stuff. I was able to run modern firefox on that 1 gb puny laptop too but it took 800 megabits of ram but I was able to run https://pomodorokitty.com/ on it.", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing on old laptop", "switched_from": "", "story": "Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo"}, {"id": 738824641, "item_id": 46176540, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176540", "by": "marttt", "date": "2025-12-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "my all-time favorite web browser, Dillo", "excerpt": "I like using old hardware, and Tiny Core was my daily driver for 5+ years on a Thinkpad T42 (died recently) and Dell Mini 9 (still working). I tried other distros on those machines, but eventually always came back to TC. RAM-booting makes the system fast and quiet on that 15+ years old iron, and I loved how easy it was to hand-tailor the OS - e.g. the packages loaded during boot are simply listed in a single flat fil", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing on old hardware", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop"}, {"id": 733329681, "item_id": 45833105, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833105", "by": "catwell", "date": "2025-11-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "However I really like what you've done here for Dillo as well.", "excerpt": "If you're looking for something light, self-hostable and a bit more \"social\" (i.e. with pull requests and bug creation from the web) I recommend looking at https://tangled.org It doesn't render perfectly in Dillo but basic features appear to work. However I really like what you've done here for Dillo as well.", "context": "", "use_case": "web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser"}, {"id": 733252720, "item_id": 45828295, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45828295", "by": "jmclnx", "date": "2025-11-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Yes, I have been using https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite for searching in Dillo.", "excerpt": "Yes, I have been using https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite for searching in Dillo. Once in a while you may get a captcha from DDG that is far better that any other captcha I have ever seen. The captcha is easy to use and can be a bit fun :)", "context": "", "use_case": "lightweight browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser"}, {"id": 733229920, "item_id": 45826870, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826870", "by": "kolme", "date": "2025-11-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to use it, like over 20 years ago!", "excerpt": "I used to use it, like over 20 years ago! Mozilla Suite was too slow for my taste and I only reached for it if Dillo couldn't render a page :) IIRC I stopped using it when Firefox (\"Phoenix\" at the time) was released.", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser"}]}