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So I need a full install of Firefox to use Browsh for just text-based browsing?

Thats like Lynx requiring Electron for text-only web browsing, which sounds more like a massive downgrade in the view of a minimalist user's point of view.

Nevertheless, a great project feature-wise with having most if not all of Firefox's features in a text-only fashion.

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Unfortunately that's the reality of the modern web, you need a modern web rendering engine to deal with the javascript and whatnot just so you can reliably extract textural content.

What about jsdom?

https://github.com/jsdom/jsdom

That doesn't do any rendering or layout calculations.

Not an option, it does not do sandboxing.

The project is interesting enough on its own merits—introducing it as a replacement for Lynx just seems like bad positioning.

It’s like saying “New minimalist transportation mode that replaces the bicycle! (Requires an existing car and jet engine)”

> So I need a full install of Firefox to use Browsh for just text-based browsing?

Yes, but at the server side you SSH into so your local connection isn't downloading the full images/other and your local compute resource isn't processing them.

Of course you can run it all in one place, but as you suggest that would be a little pointless beyond the "cool plaything" factor.