[BRLTTY] Firelynx v0.1.0

[Dietmar Segbert]

Hello Nicko,

thanks for your work.

I have tried to install firelynx under debian trixie.
In Trixie python3-selenium ist version 4.24.xx and i become some errors  
selenium-manager not found

The install.sh installs under my user musik, but if i start firelynx thies  
error will appear.

In my ser-account segbertd if use a virtual Version of python and i  
install pip3 install selenium and pip3 install webdriver-manager. The  
install.sh ends without errors, but firelynx http://localhost ends with  
the error:

Using installed location: /home/segbertd/.local/share/firelynx
Warning: selenium-manager not found. Please install python3-selenium and  
selenium-manager packages.
ERROR:src.firefox_backend:Failed to start Firefox: Message: Failed to set  
preferences: unknown error; For documentation on this error, please visit:  
https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/troubleshooting/ 
errors#sessionnotcreatedexception

In my virtual env python3-selenium ist 4.44.

Regards

Dietmar

> nico at fluxnic.net schrieb am 09.06.26:

> 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