When I first looked for lightweight web browsers, I thought they was all broken. But then, I slowly learned that it was the web that was broken.

As an example: surf crash on linuxforums.org with JavaScript enabled. But it is just a forum! How can a forum crash a web browser?

I like how Midori have many feature like NoJS, ad-blocking, ability to have no interface but the tabs, `space` at the end of the page looks for a "next" link and goes to the next page...

But it also crash sometimes. At least, when surf crash, it is only for one page. No need for "tab isolation" like chrome does :P

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I like text-mode web browsers, as they feel lighter than the others:

Lines of source code (<code>wc -l *.[ch]</code>):

I know the amount of lines of code is not a proof of quality, but I like software that are both simple by their implementation and by their usage.

What I like with retawq is that it barely does anything: render page + display them in a pager + navigate to links, with a limited number of keybindings:


Yet it handles all these protocols, and is my client of choice for those.

- http/https/local files
- ftp/ftps
- News (NNTP)
- Finger
- local CGI scripts

(14-06-2016, 03:37 PM)pranomostro Wrote: curl blog.fefe.de | skip '<' '>' | fmt | less

If you encounter pages for which this neat trick does not work, retawq could help, maybe.