EWW
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Jan 13, 2026first mention
Aug 13, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“EWW from Emacs. If Emacs can't render the HTML then the website is not worth using.”
“I love EWW! It's incredible.”
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“For reading articles I just use eww.”
“making eww the default browser, to stay pure and text-based in my day to day”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: What browser do you use? 1 mention
- EWW, the Emacs browser you underestimate 1 mention
- If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python? 1 mention
- Emacs is the display server. Headless Firefox is the renderer 1 mention
- Text-Based Web Browsers 1 mention
Also written as eww. Data: eww.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 5
“EWW from Emacs. If Emacs can't render the HTML then the website is not worth using.”
“I love EWW! It's incredible.”
“For reading articles I just use eww.”
“making eww the default browser, to stay pure and text-based in my day to day”
“when I'm using EWW in Emacs”