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MinusBrowser 2.26 is Published

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

  • When you bookmark the results of a Gopher search service search, that link now works properly. This fixes a bug in previous versions.
  • MinusBrowser now reads man pages. Typing Control-m now displays the man page (if any) for the text you enter or select.
  • Control-m is no longer a substitute for the "Add to menu" button because Control-m is now used to look for man pages.
  • A new man: URL scheme now exists to support looking for man pages. You can create links to man: URLs.
  • When you click on a file:// link to a file that is not a text file, you now have the option of opening it with the default software for its file type. This will not work if the file is executable software or is likely to contain executable software (e.g., .docm and .xlsmfiles).

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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