MinusBrowser 2.43.1 is Published

MinusBrowser is a browser for the Minus, Gopher, and DICT protocols, with limited support for HTTPS.

MinusBrowser is written for Linux-based operating systems. GPLv3.

• MinusBrowser will now handle videos on media.ccc.de/v/ (Chaos Computer Club) as well as videos on YouTube, YewTube, Framatube, and Undernet.
• The built-in Minus server no longer reports that a file is not in the library when it should report that the URL is bad. MinusBrowser will never allow bad URLs to be requested from the server, but there may be other software that will. This fixes a bug in previous versions.
• MinusBrowser now correctly handles all file:// URLs that specify files that do not exist or that you do not have permission to read, and not just those in links. This fixes a bug in previous versions.
• Fixed a mistake on the Home Page. The status display is to the left of the "Home Page" button, not the "Bookmark page" button. This fixes a bug in previous versions.
• MinusBrowser now works around a problem with some symbolic links to directories in /usr. This fixes a bug in previous versions.
• MinusBrowser can now list items in directories in /dev. This fixes a bug in previous versions.
• MinusBrowser now correctly handles URI schemes with unexpected characters, including -. This fixes a bug in previous versions.

To update to this new version, if you already have MinusBrowser 2.1 or later, just follow the instructions on your browser’s home page. You will not need to use a web browser to update.

To get MinusBrowser if you do not already have it, download this file from Codeberg.

https://codeberg.org/giXzkGsc/Minus-Protocol/raw/branch/main/MinusBrowser.tar.gz

There is no need to install MinusBrowser. Just download the .tar.gz file to your home folder and unpack it with

tar -xzf MinusBrowser.tar.gz

or use your favorite GUI software to unpack it. If you have a version of MinusBrowser earlier than 2.1, unpack the .tar.gz file into the same directory as your present MinusBrowser folder.

To follow the progress of the Minus Protocol Project, click on #minus-protocol or look at https://nerdpol.ch/tags/minus-protocol

You can download MinusBrowser from a terminal window with this command. This will work only if Tor Browser is running because it borrows Tor Browser’s SOCKS5 proxy. (Both Tor Browser and MinusBrowser contain their own copy of Tor.)

curl --socks5-hostname 127.0.0.1:9150 -O gopher://mvxpelpxu2f7kzotb2s2t6fkmggvrd7qdg2wjs6waiyf2nbhkawux4yd.onion:1990/9/MinusBrowser.tar.gz

This works because all Minus URLs can be translated into Gopher URLs.

minus://something.onion/ → gopher://something.onion:1990/9/

For more information:

[minus://mvxpelpxu2f7kzotb2s2t6fkmggvrd7qdg2wjs6waiyf2nbhkawux4yd.onion/](minus://mvxpelpxu2f7kzotb2s2t6fkmggvrd7qdg2wjs6waiyf2nbhkawux4yd.onion/)
https://codeberg.org/giXzkGsc/Minus-Protocol

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