Browsh

Browsh is a web browser that can be run from terminal client environments such as ssh and Mosh or from a web browser client. It represents web pages as text.

Browsh
Developer(s)	Thomas Buckley-Houston
Stable release	1.8.3[1]  / 29 January 2024; 18 months ago (29 January 2024)
Repository	github.com/browsh-org/browsh
Written in	JavaScript and Go[2]
Operating system	all major platforms[3]
Type	Web browser
Website	www.brow.sh

Technology

The Browsh web browser represents web pages as text and can be run either from a terminal client environment or from a web browser.^[4] As of August 2018^[update] the web browser client remains less developed.^[4] It has been developed since 23 April 2016.^[2] It uses Go as a core part of its implementation.^[4] Browsh uses a headless version of Mozilla Firefox to fetch and parse web pages.^[4]

Reception

This may be seen as a modern replacement for the Lynx text-based web browser.^[5] Others have felt displaying the web in text is impractical.^[6]