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neonix:
Here's few thouths about this browser.

Version 3.0.5 and 3.1 are two different animals (I like armAdillo name more than Dillo) with different issues and bugs.

I find this tip in
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847613

--- Quote ---hange the user agent to this one at ~/.dillo/dillorc:
      http_user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (PSP (PlayStation Portable); 2.00)"
Then a lot of sites will load a compatible version.
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On Wikipedia talk section there's interesting discusion about this browser.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dillo

New version of Damn Small Linux use Dillo as main web browser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKLeqqqNHYU

Tiny Desktop Linux also has Dillo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ6m0D4h_Fs

Some years ago I use hv3 web browser with polipo proxy that speed up connection.

I also used AnalogX Fastcache when I was WinMe user.


--- Quote ---As long as there's an Internet, everyone is going to want to do things faster. Browse the web, ping servers, download files, whatever. Every time you go to a new website, or a website you haven't been to in a day or so, your computer needs to locate the server again using DNS. Each DNS request can take anywhere from 50 milliseconds, to even a second or more, but most are in the 100 to 200 millisecond range. Want to save a couple hundred milliseconds? Probably not, but what about a couple million or more? That's what AnalogX FastCache is all about.
    AnalogX FastCache is a caching DNS server that runs on your local machine and handles any DNS request that your computer makes, from Internet Explorer to your favorite FTP client. Once a query is made, FastCache will override the normal timeout for the item with one that you specify, so instead of saving a query for a couple of seconds, it can save it for a couple of days. Now every time you ask for it again while it's in the cache, it gives it to you instantly.

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If Dillo could save rendered webpages as jpg, I would save a lot of RAM and time.

neonix:

--- Quote from: nick65go on April 20, 2024, 10:06:09 AM ---Maybe you could report a bug to the new developer in charge on git?
The DPI system of protocol/extension is the future for dillo (3.1+). It is a shame the developers do not cooperate between dillo/dillo-plus etc.

EDIT: "lack of free RAM", really? Maybe you did know that extensions DO RUN even if/after dillo is closed (check with top).
The new version 3.1 rc+ seems (git says) solved the problem of random crashes (because some SSL/TLS linked libs, about SNI --whatever this acronym is).

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It's hard to recreate a bug in web browser that doesn't have history. I know it was developers decision to create private browser without history, but it's standard nowadays. Sometimes I have to use kil -9 to clean all zombie instances.But where are the main developers? There are many forks.

CNK:
Dillo 3.1.0 has now been fully released. I've submitted an updated TC15 x86_64 dillo.tcz extension, and I'll do an x86 one soon.

Dillo now supports mbedTLS instead of OpenSSL, so I used that because it's more 'tiny'. OpenSSL is still used by wget for downloads though.

nick65go:
At the peak of paranoia, I think will be a guest-virtual machine, with a tiny kernel -only virtual devices, with only a collection of browsers - dillo, netsurf, firefox - to cover almost all cases. Maybe a vlc/mpv - audio/video, and nano. And that is all in guest machine. The rest of host computer is used "off line". The downloaded internet docs will be read offline, from shared folder between guest and host.

So is important that minimal dependencies be included in guest - reduce attack surface, sometimes even static linked is OK in guest, because no concurrent tasks will be used in VM as much as possible ... just an idea. Plus dillo and netsurf are good enough now and for the next 2-5 years for their purpose - no java scripts / low band consumed on limited/costly connection plan.

neonix:
https://duncanlock.net/blog/2024/01/04/super-fast-reader-mode-for-the-entire-web-with-dillo-plus/

https://hackaday.com/2024/05/11/the-minimalistic-dillo-web-browser-is-back/

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