MinusBrowser 2.28 is Published

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

MinusBrowser is written for Linux-based operating systems.

• Control-y has been reassigned to search for the entered or selected word or phrase in Idiotbox.
• Control-p now searches for the entered or selected word or phrase in Veronica 2, the search engine for Gopherspace.
• Several key combinations that did not work correctly when the cursor was in the text entry area now work correctly. This fixes a bug in previous versions.
• Additional information is displayed about files read with MinusBrowser that are not text files. MinusBrowser now displays the type, size, and modification date of such files. For video and audio files, if ffprobe is available, tags will also be displayed. If ffmpeg is installed, ffprobe should be available.
• The pages opened by the "Read file" button (and Control-o) now include more links.
• Audacious is now preferred to VLC when reading a page aloud. Audacious is more appropriate because it only plays audio files. Newer versions of VLC also have more "glitches."
• Tails now no longer supports Desktop files at all. Read the ReadMeFirst.txt file to see how this changes the way we use MinusBrowser with Tails.

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

#internet #protocol #tcp #hypertext #http #gopher #minus #minus-protocol #browser #minusbrowser #minus-browser #server #minus-server