[BRLTTY] Firelynx v0.1.0

[S. Massy]

Christmas in summer; can't wait to try it out. :)
Thanks!
S.M.

On Mon, Jun 08, 2026 at 06:07:07PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> That thing I teased is out. Firelynx bridges lynx and Firefox: a small 
> local proxy runs your lynx requests through a headless Firefox, so 
> JavaScript actually executes and modern sites render, then hands clean, 
> semantic HTML back to lynx. You keep lynx's fast, braille-friendly 
> interface — your keybindings and workflow — while getting a real shot at 
> JavaScript-heavy sites that normally serve a blank page. Reddit, for 
> instance, works (it even clears Reddit's JavaScript challenge). It all 
> runs on your own machine; HTTPS, forms and logins, and basic handling 
> for JavaScript dialogs and multi-factor auth may sometimes work too.
> 
> Honesty up front: this is alpha. It's slower than plain lynx (a full 
> Firefox renders every page), content extraction sometimes trims too 
> much, and the one thing I really wanted to crack — Google Search — still 
> trips Google's bot detection and lands on a CAPTCHA. I tried a lot of 
> approaches and couldn't beat it, so I'm not holding the release back any 
> longer. DuckDuckGo is the default and works well; other engines are 
> hit-or-miss (Bing sometimes stalls on a cookie-consent page). For 
> everyday browsing plain lynx is still more reliable; reach for Firelynx 
> when a site really needs JavaScript.
> 
> Linux only; needs Firefox, lynx, and Python/Selenium. It's a git clone 
> plus ./install.sh — Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu steps are in the README:
> 
>   https://github.com/npitre/firelynx
> 
> Enjoy !
> 
> Nicolas

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