[BRLTTY] Firelynx v0.2.0

[Tim Böttcher]

Hi,

if I understand it correctly, this is primarily useful when you have a 
website that needs to run some JavaScript before it renders anything 
useful; it's quite possible the JS that triggers Facebook's 2FA only 
runs in response to some event that Lynx--and thus FireLynx--doesn't 
trigger.

That said, it might be possible to introduce add-ons into the headless 
Firefox which perform the necessary automation; I've done things like 
that with Puppeteer/headless Chromium before

Kind regards,
Tim


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Von "Mike Gorse" <mike at straddlethebox.org>
An "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY." 
<brltty at brltty.app>
Datum 15.06.2026 16:09:48
Betreff Re: [BRLTTY] Firelynx v0.2.0

>Hi Nicolas,
>
>I just tried installing it from git on openSUSE Tumbleweed. I needed to install selenium, so I ran
>sudo zypper in python3-selenium
>
>And that seemed to be enough to get it installed. The install.sh script ran successfully, but, when I tried to run it, I got an error: "no module named bs4"
>
>I figured out that I also needed beautifulsoup installed, so I ran
>sudo zypper in python3-beautifulsoup4
>
>And now I seem to have a usable firelynx. I tried using facebook and haven't been able to log in; I get a message saying that I need to authenticate the login and look for a notification on my phone, but I don't get the notification on my phone. I don't know if this is related to Firelynx; I don't necessarily expect a tool like this to work for everything, although I might use it when I can. Thanks for writing it, anyway!
>
>-Mike
>
>On Sun, 14 Jun 2026, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>[ I keep posting here, as this seems of interest only to BRLTTY users. ]
>>
>>Firelynx v0.2.0 is out. This release is about the dynamic,
>>JavaScript-heavy pages that used to be dead ends in a text browser:
>>
>>- JavaScript dialogs and on-page buttons now become plain links and
>>  forms you can activate.
>>- Infinite-scroll feeds are collected into a normal page with a "Load
>>  more posts" link.
>>- Logins and form submission are more reliable.
>>
>>Facebook now works to a moderate degree: login and basic navigation are
>>usable and you get some content. Its heavily obfuscated news feed is
>>still mostly out of reach (a wall a screen reader hits too), so do not
>>expect the full feed yet. Far better results on other sites are likely
>>too with this version.
>>
>>Still alpha, still Linux only, and plain lynx is still better for
>>everyday browsing. To update an existing clone:
>>
>>    cd firelynx && git pull && ./install.sh
>>
>>Fresh install and details: https://github.com/npitre/firelynx
>>
>>
>>Nicolas
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