I accidentaly stumbled upon this newish browser (even has IPFS support) called LibreWeb Any thoughts ?

  • haverholm@kbin.earth
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    2 days ago

    It not only supports IPFS, it is “built on top of” it, according to the website.

    This makes me wonder if it’s usable for regular web browsing or only IPFS sites. The latter would sort of make it a splinternet browser, and way less interesting.

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      8 hours ago

      It’s definitely the latter. The sites it renders are just markdown files stored on the IPFS network. I don’t think it can render HTML let alone a modern web app on the internet

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        7 hours ago

        I do love markdown files myself, so a browser-side parser is very interesting. Definitely skips some Jekyll/Hugo exports 🙂

        Limiting that feature to IPFS is sort of one sided for my taste, though.

  • ComradeMiao@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    This is the de-mozillaed Firefox right? I’ve heard of it recently too. IPFS sounds really cool but isn’t it a dud because it uses a singular gateway or something?

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      2 days ago

      No, you’re thinking of LibreWolf. This is like an IPFS browser that interprets markdown to render simple sites within the IPFS network

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        12 hours ago

        If you have a moment, could you enlighten me as to what this singular gateway LibreWolf uses refers to per the top level users comment? Thanks.

        • SmokeInFog
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          8 hours ago

          They weren’t talking about LibreWolf when making the comment about the singular gateway, they were talking about IPFS. But it’s right there, you can read it again. Or even ask the original commenter, either by directly replying to them or by tagging them, e.g. @ComradeMiao@lemmy.world can you answer @golden_zealot@lemmy.ml’s question?