Dillo
A small, fast graphical web browser built on the FLTK toolkit.
HN commenters like Dillo as a lightweight browser that runs well on old hardware,1234 and for its plugin system that adds protocols like Gemini and Gopher.56 The most common caveat is that modern sites often do not render properly.789
Why people recommend it
Lightweight · 3
Commenters call it very lightweight and use it on old, low-RAM machines.
“my all-time favorite web browser, Dillo”
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“I used it on my really old dell laptop with tinycore 32 bit and dillo”
Long-time favorite · 3
Several commenters use it daily or call it their favorite browser.
“I use dillo a lot, congratulations!”
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“my all-time favorite web browser, Dillo”
Protocol plugins · 2
The DPI plugin architecture and dilloc tool let it handle Gemini, Gopher and other protocols.
“it's a really barebones one and thanks to DPI and dilloc it can be really powerful”
Privacy · 1
Paired with a hosts file, it cuts down ads, cookies and trackers.
“Dillo and a hosts file cuts down both ads and cookies/trackers”
Caveats and dissent
Modern site rendering · 3
Commenters report that some pages, especially newer sites, do not render fully or correctly.
“my all-time favorite web browser, Dillo”
“However I really like what you've done here for Dillo as well.”
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“I used to use it, like over 20 years ago!”
Barebones · 1
Described as a really barebones browser.
“it's a really barebones one and thanks to DPI and dilloc it can be really powerful”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser 3 mentions
- Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux 2 mentions
- Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0 2 mentions
- The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore 1 mention
- Text-Based Web Browsers 1 mention
- Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo 1 mention
Data: dillo.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 11
“For the web I use DIllo and a custom build of Otter Browser”
“I used to mostly use Dillo and elinks”
“Dillo and a hosts file cuts down both ads and cookies/trackers”
“I use Dillo daily”
“I use dillo a lot, congratulations!”
“it's a really barebones one and thanks to DPI and dilloc it can be really powerful”
“I used it on my really old dell laptop with tinycore 32 bit and dillo”
“my all-time favorite web browser, Dillo”
“However I really like what you've done here for Dillo as well.”
“Yes, I have been using https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite for searching in Dillo.”
“I used to use it, like over 20 years ago!”