Forking Chrome to Run in the Terminal (2023)

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  1. carbonyl

    Chromium running inside your terminal

    https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl/issues/162#issuecomment-1...

    Carbonyl is surprisingly performant and usable, especially with --zoom=300 --bitmap

    At lower resolutions, it would be nice to render images using a "subpixel" terminal rendering library like chafa (https://hpjansson.org/chafa/), or maybe sixels/kitty image protocol.

  2. AppSignal

    Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.

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  3. chafa

    πŸ“ΊπŸ—Ώ Terminal graphics for the 21st century.

    https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl/issues/162#issuecomment-1...

    Carbonyl is surprisingly performant and usable, especially with --zoom=300 --bitmap

    At lower resolutions, it would be nice to render images using a "subpixel" terminal rendering library like chafa (https://hpjansson.org/chafa/), or maybe sixels/kitty image protocol.

  4. chromium

    The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source

    Mojo is specifically developed as part of Chromium.

    https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/...

  5. browsh

    A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers

  6. xserver-SIXEL

    A X server implementation for SIXEL-featured terminals, based on @pelya's Xsdl kdrive server(https://github.com/pelya/xserver-xsdl)

  7. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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