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# Browsh [](https://travis-ci.org/tombh/texttop)
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**A fully interactive, realtime and modern browser rendered to TTY**
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or Firefox in your terminal 😲
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// Gifs go here
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## Why?
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I'm travelling around the world and sometimes I don't have very good
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Internet. If all I have is a 3kbps connection tethered from my phone
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then it's good to SSH into my server and browse the web through
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[elinks](https://github.com/tombh/texttop/issues/17). That way my
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_server_ downloads the web pages and uses the limited bandwidth of my
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SSH connection to display the result. But it lacks JS support and all
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that other modern HTML5 goodness. So Browsh is simply a way to have
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the power of a remote server running a modern browser, but interfaced
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through the simplicity of a terminal and very low bandwidth.
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Why not VNC? Well VNC is certainly one solution but it doesn't quite
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have the same ability to deal with extremely bad Internet. Also,
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Browsh can use MoSH to further reduce the bandwidth and stability
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requirements of the connection. Mosh offers features like automatic
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reconnection of dropped connections and diff-only screen updates.
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Furthermore, other than SSH or MoSH, Browsh doesn't require a client
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like VNC.
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Another reason could be to offload the battery-drain of a modern
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browser from your laptop. If you're a CLI-native, then you could
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potentially get a few more hours life if your CPU-hungry browser
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is running somehwere else on mains electricity.
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But of course the biggest reason for Browsh is probably just that it's
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cool geekery. You may just appreciate the sheer simplicty of browsing
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a text-based web in your terminal.
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## Installation
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Download a [https://github.com/tombh/browsh/releases](release) (~2MB).
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You will need to have Firefox 57+ aleady installed.
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Or download and run the Docker image (~800MB) with:
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`docker run -it tombh/browsh`
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## Usage
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Most keys and mouse gestures should work as you'd expect on a desktop
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browser.
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`CTRL+l` Focus URL bar
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## License
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GNU General Public License v3.0
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