# Browsh

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Browsh and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Runs headless Firefox and renders pages as ASCII in the terminal, a long-running, well-liked option. Caveat: doesn't map things one to one.

## Why people recommend it

- Runs real Firefox headless in terminal (2 comments): "it runs firefox headless, and renders everything to ascii in the terminal" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45831780)) "It's a similar project but based on Firefox and it's been around for quite some time now." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025656))
- Recommended alongside Carbonyl (2 comments): "browsh and carbonyl are such lifesavers on airplane wifi" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603565)) "Or try carbonyl or browsh." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49944135))
- Described as cool and worth trying (2 comments): "That one is also really cool." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46599997)) "which is still quite cool" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598207))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Lynx web browser](https://hackerapproved.com/p/lynx.md): 42 recommend
- [w3m](https://hackerapproved.com/p/w3m.md): 19 recommend
- [Links web browser](https://hackerapproved.com/p/links.md): 18 recommend
- [Offpunk](https://hackerapproved.com/p/offpunk.md): 7 recommend
- [ELinks](https://hackerapproved.com/p/elinks.md): 6 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Browsh", https://hackerapproved.com/p/browsh/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).