browsh-org/browsh

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Browsh is a fully-modern text-based browser that renders real web pages (HTML5, CSS3, JS, video, WebGL) as text and basic graphics in a terminal or another browser. It works by driving a headless Firefox on a remote server and streaming a lightweight text representation to the client over SSH or Mosh.

Use cases

• browse the modern web over a very slow or expensive connection
• render JavaScript-heavy pages in a terminal like elinks but with full HTML5 support
• offload browser CPU and battery drain from a low-powered device like a Raspberry Pi
• use Mosh with a text browser for stable browsing on flaky mobile connections
• fetch lightweight text versions of pages with curl via text.brow.sh
• browse the web over SSH from a machine with poor internet

When to choose

• you need modern web rendering (JS, HTML5) in a text-based terminal browser
• you have extremely limited bandwidth and want a server to do the heavy downloading
• you want to reduce battery/CPU usage on a low-powered client device
• you prefer a CLI-native workflow but still need full web compatibility

When to avoid

• you need a fully interactive graphical browsing experience with images and rich media locally
• you cannot install Firefox on the server or client machine
• you need the in-browser client to be real-time and interactive, as it lacks feature parity with the TTY client
• you need a lightweight text browser without a Firefox dependency

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http-client cli proxy web-development developer-tools privacy windows cli cross-platform text-based-browser headless-firefox bandwidth-saving ssh mosh tty terminal command-line linux macos docker

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