Gembrowse: A TUI Gemini Browser

This is a WORK IN PROGRESS! Many features are still unimplemented (or poorly implemented).

Features

• It's just one file.

• Written in Ada for security and safety.

• Keyboard and Mouse Friendly

Hover over any button to see the keyboard shortcut. They should be pretty close to what you are used to in Chrome or Firefox.

Installation

Just copy the binary somewhere and run it!

Having said that, you'll probably want a good font installed with emojis and comprehensive Unicode coverage.

I like Nerd Fonts for my terminal:

https://www.nerdfonts.com/

Gembrowse makes use of emojis, but no Font Awesome icons or Powerline symbols or anything like that.

Bookmarks File

Gemini will look for a file called .gembrowse-bookmarks.gmi in your home folder. You can specify a different bookmarks folder with the -b option if you want to keep your bookmarks in a Dropbox folder or Git dotfiles repo or something like that to sync across devices.

Build Instructions

Build Requirements

Gembrowse is intentionally built with minimal requirements. Aside from libc and associated system libraries like librt and libpthread, everything is written from scratch with the exception of TLS, which comes from the LibreSSL project. This is statically linked so Gembrowse can be distributed as a single binary.

This project does make use of Ada 202X features, so you'll probably need GNAT 2021 to build it.

LibreSSL

Follow the build instructions or just download the binaries. Gembrowse statically links libtls and libcrypto. The Gembrowse project file will look for libcrypto.a and libtls.a in the lib/ folder (alongside src/)

Once that's done, just run make in the top level folder.