Welcome to the Dillo Website

Dillo is a fast and small graphical web browser with the following features:

Multi-platform, running on Linux, BSD, MacOS, Windows (via Cygwin) and even Atari.
Written in C and C++ with few dependencies.
Implements its own real-time rendering engine.
Low memory usage and fast rendering, even with large pages.
Uses the fast and bloat-free FLTK GUI library.
Support for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and local files.
Extensible with plugins written in any language (see the list of plugins).
Is free software licensed with the GPLv3.
Helps authors to comply with web standards by using the bug meter 👁 Bugmeter icon
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Read the user manual to discover how to use all the features.

We are moving Dillo from GitHub to our own self-hosted server at https://dillo-browser.org.

All important data is now stored in git repositories served by the cgit service and replicated across Codeberg and Sourcehut.

Screenshots

👁 Plan9 website
👁 Armadillo Wikipedia page
👁 Suckless website
👁 Aaron Swartz website
👁 Hacker News website
👁 100 Rabbits website

...see the gallery for more pictures and screenshots.

Project objectives

Lower the barrier of entry to the web.
Support old or small machines and slow connections.
Personal security and privacy.
High software efficiency.

Check the old website for more details. The domain dillo.org is no longer under control of Dillo developers.

Documentation

There are several pieces of documentation available, it is recommended that users read the User Manual and the Topic Guide.

User Manual: Read it to discover how to use all the features. It is distributed with the browser so it can be read locally.
Topic Guide: Provides extra details on additional topics that are not covered by the manual, like how to configure Dillo and mpv to open multimedia files from URLs.
Developer Documentation: Describes the internal design and implementation of the browser and it is recommended for developers.

Download

Download the latest release 3.2.0 and follow the README.md instructions to build Dillo. You can also clone the latest changes directly from the Git repository.

Contributing

We always welcome contributions, here are several ways in which you can help:

Use Dillo to browse the web and if you find something that is not working, open an issue or send an email to dillo-dev@mailman3.com.
Spread the word, so the world knows Dillo exists and is still alive.
Implement some new feature or fix some bug and send us a patch or create a pull request (check the developer documentation).
Donate to the project via Liberapay to cover testing and infrastructure costs.

Plugins

Dillo can easily be extended by plugins to support new protocols. Plugins are written in any language and interact using the standard input and output. Here are some of them:

Plugin	Protocol	Language	Description
Gemini	gemini://	Bash	Gemini protocol plugin
Gopher	gopher://	C	Gopher protocol plugin
IPFS	ipfs://, ipns://	Go	IPFS protocol plugin
Man	man://	Bash	Renders man pages in HTML
Spartan	spartan://	Bash	Spartan protocol plugin

More plugins are available in the git repositories. To add a new plugin, send an email with a link to your repository and a short description.

Website - Git - Bug tracker - Mastodon - IRC - Mailing list - Liberapay

URL: https://dillo-browser.github.io/