R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 馃嵉
@rl_dane@polymaths.social  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

I can't believe it myself, but yes, I've made #Dillo my default browser on my personal laptops. It's never been my default, even though I've used it occasionally, off-and-on, for 25 years. XD

I still fire up #LibreWolf ( #firefox fork) occasionally on those machines, but #DilloBrowser fits in this neat space between terminal browsers and "full-fat" browsers like Librewolf and #luakit.

I'm just wishing it had a "follow mode" for following links from the keyboard, and wondering if there was some way to make it use the clipboard by default, instead of primary selection. I don't quite understand why classic X11 programs use primary selection so much. XD

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Klaus Zimmermann :unverified:
@kzimmermann@c.im replied  路  activity timestamp 2 days ago
@rl_dane nice! I also find myself these days running @dillo as my first browser choice for anything "plain-browsing" until either I can't load a given page or I need to use a webapp (banking, etc). And if I'm using a modest computer, Dillo is the only browser I use.

The amazing thing is that sometimes #dillo is the better choice because it will show me the content of pages that would not otherwise load in Firefox with JS disabled!

I just wish more search engines would accept it. Besides DDG lite, it seems that most #Searx instances outright block its user-agent, making searching for things besides text a lot harder with it :\
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@dillo@fosstodon.org replied  路  activity timestamp 2 days ago
@rl_dane "if there was some way to make it use the clipboard by default" Ctrl+C should copy into clipboard the selected text, make sure you use the latest version from git. Let us know otherwise.

"I don't quite understand why classic X11 programs use primary selection so much" because you can quickly copy by selecting and paste by middle clicking.

"I'm just wishing it had a "follow mode" for following links from the keyboard" I have some ideas, but none implemented yet.