# Dillo Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/dillo/ 42 people recommended Dillo in Hacker News comments, 7 had mixed feelings and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 10 of 12 months, in 30 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule. 26 of the 42 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser”. **Verdict:** Recommended as a very light, fast browser for old hardware and simple sites. Main caveat: no JavaScript, so many modern websites break. Summary written by Claude from 50 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 49 of those comments still count. ## Why people recommend it - Fast and lightweight (5 comments in the sample): "The computer was too slow for the rest of the software of the era but Dillo was still fast!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45829826)) "Dillo is hands down the best ultra lightweight browser ever developed in my opinion." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45827151)) "because it was faster, cleaner, and left more RAM free for other uses" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45832708)) - Runs well on old hardware (4 comments in the sample): "I used Dillo in 2001-2002 with the PlayStation 2 Linux kit. With 32MB of RAM for Linux, and 4MB for the graphics…" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45938055)) "I've successfully run Dillo on machines with 40-64 MB of RAM before now, and it hasn't changed that much" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45837409)) "Dillo gave new life to lots of hardware out there that could have otherwise end up in the trash." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45830713)) - Works without JavaScript (4 comments in the sample): "You can use Dillo and explore the light web, gopher and gemini with no JS or big plugins at all." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900593)) "Disable Javascript or use Lynx, Links or Dillo to open the articles from your newsreader." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47481544)) "the lightness and lack of javascript can be very therapeutic" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45827143)) - Supports Gopher and Gemini (2 comments in the sample): "dillo now has plugins for both Gemini and Gopher and the plugins work find on the various BSDs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402948)) "DIllo is much lighter and it supports Gopher, Gemini, Info, Man" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45828879)) ## What people warn about - Breaks sites that need JavaScript (2 comments in the sample): "it does not support JavaScript at all. There aren’t many or any sites/apps that I regularly use that would work without JavaScript." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45831173)) "it would just fail on most modern websites" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46189659)) - Incomplete CSS and web font support (1 comment in the sample): "It runs my dev blog quite well. Some of the CSS alignment is off and it doesn't load web fonts" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45828388)) ## Other web browsers people recommend - [Firefox](https://hackerapproved.com/p/firefox/): 1028 recommend, 359 mixed, 1139 criticize - [Brave](https://hackerapproved.com/p/brave-browser/): 310 recommend, 61 mixed, 215 criticize - [Google Chrome](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-chrome/): 242 recommend, 170 mixed, 998 criticize - [Safari](https://hackerapproved.com/p/safari/): 178 recommend, 80 mixed, 522 criticize ## The badge A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged. ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Dillo", https://hackerapproved.com/p/dillo/ (42 recommend, 7 mixed, 5 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026). Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.