Dillo browser

Dillo is a fast and small graphical web browser with HTTP, HTTPS and FTP support.

Other protocols like #Gemini #Gopher and #Spartan are available via plugins.

⚠ Do not use dillo . org, is not under our control, see: https://dillo-browser.org/dillo.org.html

PGP key: 32E65EC501A1B6FDF8190D293EE6BA977EB2A253

Website: https://dillo-browser.org/
Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/dillo/
Git: https://git.dillo-browser.org/
Website mirror: https://dillo-browser.github.io/

Public Key

npub1vltu3eqcsec9k4dz8zcjqcfqswpkmn2f8j85qzl52ptak4j3ww0sdkuhe3

NIP-05 Address

dillo_at_fosstodon.org@momostr.pink

Profile Code

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relay.nostr.bg

relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

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Last Notes

2026-08-06 19:40:42 UTC

#Dillo 3.3.0 has been accepted in #Debian unstable (Sid). It will be available in testing (Forky) in a few days. 🥳
Thanks a lot to Nikolas Nyby who has stepped in as the new Debian package maintainer and got the new version packaged and accepted.
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dillo

2026-07-26 19:44:19 UTC

Sadly, the SVG library Nanosvg is now slop.
We embed a sane version in #Dillo to read Wikipedia math which will be kept LLM-free. Human-made changes will continue to be cherry-picked from upstream.

2026-06-14 15:21:37 UTC

I have prepared a directory of sites that work well with #Dillo with a focus on human crafted sites to help new users find useful content:
https://dir.dillo-browser.org/
There is A LOT of content to explore, so be mindful of the time when entering the rabbit hole.
You can also suggest new sites to be added at the end of the page.

2026-06-02 12:39:09 UTC

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hahahha nice job!

2026-04-26 16:38:20 UTC

#Dillo 3.3.0 finally released! 🥳 😎
https://dillo-browser.org/release/3.3.0/
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2026-04-22 19:41:47 UTC

Introducing the Dillo Lab, a new section in our website for experimental ideas and features.
https://dillo-browser.org/lab/
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2026-04-08 19:13:28 UTC

Kind reminder that our #Dillo git repository is distributed among three different sites, all in sync:
- https://git.dillo-browser.org/dillo
- https://codeberg.org/dillo/dillo
- https://git.sr.ht/~dillo/dillo
Currently #Sourcehut is fighting a DDoS and the service is spotty: https://status.sr.ht/issues/2026-04-06-ddos-attack/
This is precisely why we have chosen a replicated set of git servers.

2025-11-30 12:52:24 UTC

Migrating #Dillo from GitHub to our self-hosted server. :blobcatcookienom:
I wrote a post about the current situation with #GitHub and how we ended up self-hosting our own infrastructure to be robust against data loss. We now store all important data (including issues) in git repositories which are replicated accross #Codeberg and #Sourcehut.
https://dillo-browser.org/news/migration-from-github/

2025-08-26 19:04:17 UTC

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okay. Your screens seems that they are not HiDPI, or not configured as is, as they report 96 dpi.
I have a private experimental branch with FLTK 1.4 support, but there still some glitches. As it is taking me more than expected to get it done, I will probably release it under a experimental flag so you can enable it if you want to play with it and report/debug issues.

2025-08-26 18:52:43 UTC

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your screen is 2 meters wide?

2025-08-26 18:45:53 UTC

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which dpi resolution are you using?
$ xdpyinfo | grep -B 2 resolution

2025-07-27 22:03:34 UTC

I'm testing cgit on #Dillo and after some small CSS fixes it renders really well :blobcatcool:
#SelfHosting
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2025-07-02 20:26:18 UTC

#Dillo release size over time, constrained by the size of a single #floppy disk. We still have some room left.
I suspect the big increase in 3.1.0 is mostly caused by adding a screenshot in the readme (136 KiB).
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2025-05-31 18:34:13 UTC

Not sure if we need to say this but... No, we won't put LLM or any other AI bullshit in the browser.
Fetch a document. Read a document. That's it.

2025-03-08 14:36:04 UTC

New #Dillo plugin to display GNU Info pages available here: https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo-plugin-info
References are easy to follow by clicking on the hyperlink to other info: pages.
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2025-02-24 18:08:04 UTC

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they have packaged the dillo-plus fork, so I assume it would be feasible to do it:
https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports/blob/master/www-client/dillo/dillo_plus-3.2.1.recipe
I'll be happy to merge paches in upstream if needed to make it work as well.

2025-02-24 17:55:32 UTC

After some fixes, #Dillo also builds and runs on Solaris 10 (released in 2005 and still maintained!).
See more pictures in the gallery: https://dillo-browser.github.io/gallery/
Source: https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/pull/353#issuecomment-2643718976
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2025-01-29 18:55:09 UTC

See you at #FOSDEM this Sunday at 16:10. I'll carry some floppy disks with the latest #Dillo 3.2.0 release.
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4100-resurrecting-the-minimalistic-dillo-web-browser/
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2025-01-16 12:45:32 UTC

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yep.
Extremely good timing indeed:
% stat dev/search-engine | grep Birth
Birth: 2025-01-14 22:24:00.369739035 +0100

2025-01-16 12:39:50 UTC

#Google is now banning #Dillo user agent via a JS wall. Other user agents still work for now (http_user_agent option in dillorc).
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42719865
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2024-12-31 23:21:49 UTC

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thanks!, it works :-)

2024-12-31 21:57:44 UTC

@npub1080…cr2f could you configure your nginx server to send content-type: image/webp for .webp images in your blog?, it is currently sending text/plain and failing to render in Dillo. Example: https://kevquirk.com/media/pages/blog/year-2-at-the-smallholding/05614e701c-1730903864/garage-then.webp

2024-12-27 20:11:27 UTC

Friendly reminder that we are at #dillo channel in Libera.chat via IRC.

2024-12-21 13:47:58 UTC

Support to open URLs using external tools just got merged. Now you can open a YouTube video directly from #Dillo.
You can add as many menu entries as you need and specify how the URL is passed to the external program in the configuration file.
See: https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/pull/326
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2024-12-15 20:52:16 UTC

#Dillo is now 25 years old!
Check out the special page for the anniversary: https://dillo-browser.github.io/25-years/
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2024-12-15 11:17:34 UTC

See you at #FOSDEM?, I may carry some floppies with the next #Dillo release :-)
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2024-12-10 22:11:48 UTC

TIL that there is a MS-DOS fork of #Dillo that can run on a modern browser:
https://archive.org/details/msdos_dillodos

2024-12-01 10:06:07 UTC

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nice :)
It looks some CSS rule is causing the text to spill out of the viewport. I guess Dillo is using 100% of the viewport rather than the parent container.

2024-11-20 17:30:07 UTC

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This comes after I saw this nice plot of Dillo installs on Debian. If I understand it correctly there are at least 171 active users.
https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=dillo
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2024-11-20 17:25:45 UTC

How often do you use the #Dillo browser?
#Browser #Poll #Web #SmallWeb #indieweb

2024-11-18 17:24:44 UTC

#FLTK 1.4.0 has been released! 🥳
Among the long list of improvements, it includes proper support for High DPI displays which would improve how #Dillo renders websites across different screens.
It would take some time to port Dillo to FLTK 1.4.0, but it is worth the effort.
https://www.fltk.org/articles.php?L1955
https://github.com/fltk/fltk/blob/master/CHANGES.txt

2024-11-15 19:58:59 UTC

Testing experimental CSS var() support on #dillo with some websites.
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2024-10-27 18:54:23 UTC

#Question: Is there any bank that can be operated from a web browser without JavaScript? Are they _all_ extinct?
#AskFedi #Dillo #JavaScript

2024-10-21 19:16:24 UTC

The upcoming #FLTK 1.4.0 release brings a lot of improvements, but it will take some effort to adapt Dillo code and solve all issues. Finally we will have DPI independent font sizes! 😎
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2024-10-19 09:45:18 UTC

Kindly asking @npub1le8…4nlt to support Dillo as an officially supported web browser:
https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-tools/issues/714
#Dillo #Kiwix

2024-10-07 21:38:05 UTC

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just the PR I was testing: https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/pull/242
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2024-10-07 21:34:00 UTC

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oh thats great, thanks! I also test fixes or new features with it.
Also: https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/issues/270

2024-10-07 21:20:36 UTC

@npub1z8r…mrq6 do you test wiki.xxiivv.com on Dillo? I'm having a hard time finding obvious layouting issues :-)

2024-10-06 10:07:14 UTC

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somehow people have accepted the idea that writing software to render mostly text documents must be a gargantuan job, which only a handful of companies can do.
Rendering a small but useful subset of the HTML spec is a reasonable job for a single individual and it is not so crazy to do from scratch. You can also take a look at Gemini (not the garbage from Google).
Write simple websites that can be rendered by simple browsers. This is perhaps the hardest part.

2024-08-29 22:38:40 UTC

Using slides with #Dillo.
Proof of concept implemented with plain #HTML slides and jumping to the next fragment (id="foo") with a shortcut.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/047/689/789/390/358/original/3813ce462834937c.mp4

2024-08-11 18:28:26 UTC

Found some old floppies from around 1997, let's see if they still work. It says "Lifetime Warranty *".
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2024-08-07 21:59:59 UTC

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it doesn't look like, when I try to login a message in the top says: "This website requires JavaScript". :blobcatsadreach:

2024-08-07 12:28:14 UTC

I'm surprised I can use the #GitHub website in #Dillo to develop Dillo itself. Logging in with two factor authentication, opening issues and PR, commenting, looking at the CI logs, all seem to work without JS.

2024-08-04 11:35:57 UTC

IMPORTANT NOTICE ⚠️
(Boosts appreciated)
The #Dillo package for #Debian will be removed from the repositories in two weeks.
https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/issues/230
The current maintainer seems to be unable to continue taking care of it, and I'm not familiar with Debian packages to maintain it myself.
Is there a Debian maintainer who could help us by adopting it? We already have a working package:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dillo/-/merge_requests/1

2024-06-23 19:09:16 UTC

When you remove JavaScript, what continues to work?
Made a simple classification with badges here: https://dillo-browser.github.io/pec/
Any thoughts? (I'm not an expert in graphic design, I know)
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2024-06-08 12:15:36 UTC

New version 3.1.1 of #Dillo browser released.
https://dillo-browser.github.io/release/3.1.1/

2024-05-15 19:21:29 UTC

#Dillo 3.1.0 is now available in the repositories of Arch Linux, Alpine, Fedora, FreeBSD Ports, Homebrew, Majeia, Manjaro, Nixpkgs, NetBSD (pkgsrc), OpenBSD Ports, OpenMandriva and Void Linux.
Still waiting for Debian (and derived distros) to catch up.
Thanks to all volunteers who helped updating to the new version :blobcathug: