MinusBrowser 2.32 is Published
Minus is like Gopher, but even simpler. MinusBrowser also browses Gopherspace.
MinusBrowser is written for Linux-based operating systems.
- MinusBrowser's built-in Minus server has a problem with file specifiers that begin with
-
, so this is no longer allowed. MinusBrowser and its built-in server have been changed to enforce this, and the Minus Protocol Specification has been revised accordingly. I hope this will be the last revision to the specification. - When files are read instead of Internet URLs,
file://
URLs now appear in the URL area of the browser window, instead of the full path name of the file. - MinusBrowser will no longer attempt to display text files larger than 50MiB, in order to protect the text widget of Tk from being overloaded. Files downloaded from the Internet were already truncated to 50 MiB for the same reason.
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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