The open source lightweight web browser Dillo turns 25 and has been updated to version 3.2. The browser, written using the FLTK 1.3 GUI toolkit, has been revived by developer Rodrigo Arias Mallo after more than nine years of obscurity.
The new version adds initial support for SVG images for mathematical formulas and simple SVG graphs, support for WebP images, and a new page navigation mode using the scrollbar. You can now scroll through pages like a book, using the left mouse button to scroll down and the right mouse button to scroll up. You can also configure page overlap with the new scroll_page_overlap option.
Additionally, Dillo 3.2 introduces the ability to set custom commands for opening new URLs using the link_action option, place a vertical scrollbar to the left of a web page, and new controls for zooming text on web pages using the Ctrl+ and Ctrl- keyboard shortcuts.
The new version also includes a new_tab_page option to open a custom new tab page, adds line anchors in the HTML source view, support for displaying JSON as plain text, and sets focus_new_tab=NO and show_quit_dialog=NO by default.
Additionally, Dillo 3.2 improves image resizing logic to preserve aspect ratio, adds support for reloading the current page on SIGUSR1 signal, which is useful for implementing live preview when editing a web page, support for line fragments in text files, support for CSS units (ch, rem, vw, vh, vmin, vmax) and a new ignore_image_formats option for ignoring certain image formats.
Although Dillo turned 25 on December 15, 2024, it still does not support many modern websites, including popular sites like YouTube, limiting its use to 2025.
Source: linux.org.ru
