[BRLTTY] Firelynx v0.1.0

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Sun, 14 Jun 2026, Pranav Lal wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Any chance of extending this program to use chromium? I am looking for webrtc support.

Hi Pranav,

Short answer: moving to Chromium would not give you usable WebRTC here, 
and the reason is the design rather than the browser.

Two points:

1. WebRTC is not a Chromium-only feature. Firefox supports it too, and 
   the headless Firefox that Firelynx already drives can run it. So the 
   browser is not what is blocking WebRTC.

2. Firelynx runs the page in a headless browser and sends only the 
   extracted text and HTML to lynx. WebRTC is real-time audio, video, 
   and peer to peer streams. That media would play inside the headless 
   browser, with no path to your speakers or your braille display, and 
   none of it becomes text for lynx to show.  So even with WebRTC 
   running in the backend, there is nothing for a text browser to 
   present. Switching to Chromium would not change that.

A Chromium backend is technically possible, but it would be a fair 
amount of work (the driver, profile handling, preferences, and the 
anti-detection extension are all Firefox specific today), and it would 
not deliver what you are after.


Nicolas