MinusBrowser 2.29 is Published

Minus is like Gopher, but even simpler. MinusBrowser also browses Gopherspace.

MinusBrowser is written for Linux-based operating systems.

• Added an about: scheme with three pages: about, browser, and server. This is similar to the about: scheme of some web browsers. Search for about: on the Home page for details. More pages will probably be added in the future.
• Links are now followed up to three levels deep.
• The very limited support for the Gemini protocol has been removed. This will probably be added back if, and when, curl supports the Gemini protocol.
• Some more cruft related to the way MinusBrowser used to work with the Tails OS has been removed.
• When files other than text files are read, a window with details about the file is displayed. You can delete these non-text files by typing Shift-Delete, just as with text files. A note about this now appears on the details page.
• MinusBrowser can now read any file or folder using EasyGPG, if EasyGPG is installed, by typing Control-d. Previously, this only worked with text files. If the file contains no PGP messages or keys, EasyGPG will offer to encrypt the file.
• More links now appear on the page that appears when you click "Read file" (or type Control-o).

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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