Comment by 🚀 sparcipx
Re: "Which Javascript-free Browser?"
I've been using my older Powerbooks a lot lately, so Classilla, iCab, Netscape 4, and WannaBe have been seeing a lot of use. WannaBe is the only Javascript free one though.
2025-01-28 · 1 year ago
Poll Results
1. Dillo
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2. Links2
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3. Mosaic
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4. Other? (Specify below)
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37 votes were cast.
14 Later Comments ↓
🚀 anthk_out · 2025-01-31 at 12:13:
Mothra and Netsurf under 9front :)
😎 decant · 2025-02-02 at 16:40:
I would use netsurf, but on unix it requires GTK which is a boatload of deps. dillo has buildin uMatrix function that let you block third party elements on a per site basis, and you can change useragent easily. On netsurf, you just can't do that. Is there a netsurf port for OpenBSD that can do these?? Open for suggestions.
😎 decant · 2025-02-02 at 16:43:
more of a uMatrix like function, there is no easily point and click interface, you need to edit /.dillo/domainrc
🙂 Alfika07 · 2025-04-04 at 20:58:
Netsurf is very lightweit and it's used on RISCOS by default
🐙 norayr · 2025-04-05 at 00:50:
i noticed nobody mentioned lynx. i remember it didn't support html frames, unlike links, but it could convert some non unicode language encodings to translit.
dillo for linux when needed, mothra for 9front/plan9, gemini almost everywhere <3
🐙 norayr · 2025-04-05 at 10:35:
actually yes, lagrange or amfora + levior or duckling proxy is more than you need for most websites.
Not sure if that's the answer, but I've simply set `javascript.enabled` to `false` in the `Firefox about:config`
💎 pista · 2025-04-05 at 18:11:
@byte based.
I voted Links2 because it's largely keyboard driven and thus fast to navigate. I'd consider Dillo but I've not used the more recent releases. Linux Mint seems to be stuck on 3.0.5 which dates WAY back. Next clean install I'll probably go LMDE and that may provide 3.2.0
JS-free 'browser' is:
- but API features, such as PAC, still use JavaScript, lol
netsurf?
it has its own small js interpreter, which is easy to turn off, and maybe it is even off by default. anyway it doesn't help with most of the pages.
my only wish is if it would remember which workspace was each window before closing and would restore the state. that is my wish for every browser.
oh apparently i already left comments. (:
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Original Post
Which Javascript-free Browser? — Which Javascript-free and/or text-based light browser do people prefer? Sometimes it's nice to view the web through a more simple lens, even though it breaks 98% of websites out there. Are you more of a Dillo-head, or a traditionalist hanging out at the TTY with Links2? Or are you a *true* traditionalist and go all the way back with Mosaic? Maybe something else? Actually, pruning my daily www usage to websites which work well in these "simple" browsers has...