GoKawiilThis reporitory [https://tangled.org/janantos.tngl.sh/brow6el] is now the main and only source of truth, previous on Codeberg [https://codeberg.org/janantos/brow6el] is kept for referrence only. I have decided to migrated from Codeberg because of my other projects are not welcomed there anymore and I want to keep my projects together on single platform.
Brow6el - Terminal Web Browser with Graphics Support#
A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium (CEF) with support for Sixel and Kitty graphics protocols.
WARNING: Kitty image support (currently only in main branch builds) by its design nature is barelly usable in SSH when brow6el runs on remote host, this feature is usable when brow6el is executed on localhost. On ssh the responsivenes of browser is significantly affected, due to massive data transfers on each frame rendered
WARNING: Kitty image support (currently only in main branch builds), Ubuntu 24.04 is shipped with very old Kitty version 0.32.2 which does not handle newer image protocol brow6el is using as BASE64 data are being printed instead rendered screen. however foot terminal works on Ubuntu perfectly fine
WARNING: this is POC code quality. Build process tested in Ubuntu 25.10, Debian 13, Arch Linux. The browser itself was tested in foot terminal, wezterm, kitty, ghostty, yaft framebuffer terminal and Windows 11 Terminal with sixel support using WSL2.
Page view#
JavaScript console#
Graphics Protocols - Supports both Sixel and Kitty graphics protocols with automatic detection
- Supports both Sixel and Kitty graphics protocols with automatic detection Tiled Rendering - Optional tile-based Sixel rendering for improved responsiveness (Sixel only)
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