Alternatives to Dillo
Browse lightweight pages with a small graphical browser. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Dillo
Browse lightweight pages with a small graphical browser.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Dillo.
Falkon
Lightweight KDE browser built on QtWebEngine.
Falkon uses the fuller QtWebEngine engine with a built-in ad blocker and password manager, and runs on Windows and Linux but not macOS.
Midori
Lightweight browser with an ad blocker and privacy-focused defaults.
Midori is a lightweight Chromium fork with ad blocking and tracking protection enabled, runs on Windows, Linux and Android, and has no macOS build.
Links
Small browser that runs either as text in a terminal or in a basic graphics mode.
Links is even smaller, offering a basic graphics mode that works without X plus a text mode, but has no JavaScript engine, so most modern sites fail.
Min
Browse with a minimal interface and grouped tabs.
Min offers a minimal interface with grouped tabs, tracker blocking and reader views on Windows, macOS and Linux, with userscripts in place of an extension store.
NetSurf
A small, fast open-source web browser written in C with its own layout engine.
NetSurf is a small open source GPL-2.0 browser with its own layout engine written in C that also runs on RISC OS, with similarly limited support for script-heavy sites.
surf
A minimal WebKit2GTK web browser from the suckless project, without tabs and configured at compile time.
surf is a minimal suckless WebKit2GTK browser for Linux with no built-in tabs, configured by editing and recompiling the source, and it handles modern sites better.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Dillo as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Flow Browser
An independent HTML browser engine and browser that lays out pages in parallel across CPU cores.
Dillo is a small open-source graphical browser for Linux and macOS with modest resource requirements, though modern web applications may need a more complete engine.
Ladybird
Explore an independent browser with its own rendering engine.
Dillo is a small graphical browser with modest resource needs on macOS and Linux, but modern web applications may need a more complete engine.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Lynx
Text-mode web browser for terminals and remote systems.
Browsh
Browse modern web pages through a terminal interface.
Servo
Experiment with a browser engine written in Rust.
w3m
A text-based web browser and pager that runs in the terminal.
ELinks
A text-mode web browser for the terminal, maintained as an actively developed fork.
