kuustudio / carbonyl

Chromium running inside your terminal

carbonyl

Carbonyl is a Chromium based browser built to run in a terminal. Read the blog post.

It supports pretty much all Web APIs including WebGL, WebGPU, audio and video playback, animations, etc..

It's snappy, starts in less than a second, runs at 60 FPS, and idles at 0% CPU usage. It does not require a window server (ie. works in a safe-mode console), and even runs through SSH.

Carbonyl originally started as html2svg and is now the runtime behind it.

Usage

# Watch YouTube inside a Docker container
$ docker run -ti fathyb/carbonyl https://youtube.com

Demo

Wikipedia.mp4	Doom.mp4
YouTube.mp4

Know issues

• Fullscreen mode not supported yet

Development

Fetch

$ cd chromium
$ gclient sync

Configure

You need to disable lld on macOS because of a linking bug related to Rust and compact_unwind

$ cd chromium/src
$ gn gen out/Default

Build

$ cd chromium/src
$ ninja -C out/Default headless:headless_shell