Dillo 3.1 Open-Source Web Browser Released After 9 Year Hiatus
Highlights of Dillo 3.1 include support for floating HTML elements, which involved a big redesign, support for OpenSSL, LibreSSL, and Mbed TLS 2 and 3 for HTTPS by default, automatic HTML rendering tests, improved and extended Dillo manual, and a CI pipeline to build Dillo on Ubuntu, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows.
This release also brings a redesign of widget sizes, support for min-width, max-width, min-height, max-height, and display: inline-block CSS elements, new adjust_min_width and adjust_table_min_width configuration options, support for HTML5 character references, as well as improved recognition of cookies dates.
An update
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The Minimalistic Dillo Web Browser Is Back
Over the decades web browsers have changed from the fairly lightweight and nimble HTML document viewers of the 1990s to today’s top-heavy browsers that struggle to run on a system with less than a quad-core, multi-GHz CPU and gigabytes of RAM. All but a few, that is.