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Thank you for reminding me to give NetSurf another try. No package in Ubuntu for some reason, but relatively easy to compile from source.


Weird, Debian has NetSurf in its repos (netsurf-gtk, or netsurf-fb if you want to render it directly to framebuffer with no UI toolkit)


Thanks, I was able to install netsurf-gtk just fine.

It would be nice if `apt install netsurf` returned something more helpful than "Unable to locate package netsurf"


netsurf is using the GTK+ toolkit.

The thing is I was about to build my own browser with netsurf components (but probably with my own toolkit)... then I stumbled upon the fact that it won't help much more than to use links or lynx since sites are getting javascript-walled. At best I would get a CSS renderer, coded in plain and simple C99+.

Since Big Tech controls the software to access their online service, they will give hell to any promising real-life alternative.

To say that the only sane way out of this, is not even coding a plain and simple C99+ real-life javascript web engine, but ensure by law/regulation that all "utility/critical" sites have a working and sane noscript/basic (x)html portal (as 100% of them had a few years ago...............)


I always do first:

apt-cache search netsurf


Thanks! I'll know to do that in the future.




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