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MinusBrowser 2.27 is Published

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

  • MinusBrowser now requires Minus URLs to end with a file name extension like .gz, .txt, etc. The Minus Protocol Specification already specified that the file type is indicated by the extension, implicitly requiring an extension. Now the specification makes this requirement explicit, and MinusBrowser rejects file names without extensions.
  • In addition to VLC and Audacious, MinusBrowser can now use MPV when reading pages aloud. The first choice is VLC, then Audacious, and then MPV.
  • Because MinusBrowser can not play YouTube videos discovered with Idiotbox, it now plays them with other software (by default, the default web browser). Note that this may mean downloading content without using Tor. It is also possible to play these videos with software other than a web browser, if such software is available. Search the MinusBrowser home page for "youtube" to read more details.
  • Some errors in built-in documentation have been fixed, and new information has been added.

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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