How is a terminal browser fundamentally different from a headless browser ??

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    I think a headless browser runs somewhere in the background without an interface. Used to automate stuff. A browser in the terminal will have an interface, the terminal text interface. And you’ll be reading the website, not take screenshots or scrape or test websites automatically.

  • ivn@jlai.luEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Do terminal browsers run javascript? Because headless browsers do and that’s a big part of their usefulness.

    • Hellfire103@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      Depends.

      • Chawan has experimental JS support, if I remember correctly.
      • ELinks used to have a patch that enabled JS.
      • Browsh and Carbonyl support JS, but they’re running headless Firefox and Chromium, respectively, under the hood.
  • Hellfire103@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    A terminal browser is something you use. A headless browser is something which either another program uses or which uses itself.

  • Cat_Daddy [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    I don’t think it is. To me, that’s like asking how a terminal text editor is different than a headless text editor. In both cases you’d be using the same application. So I’d assume for a browser that in both terminal and headless mode you’d use, for example, Lynx.