Dillo is a very fast and minimalistic graphical web browser that runs well on small computers. It has its own rendering engine and it supports a substantial subset of HTML and CSS, but it doesn't support JS. Unfortunately, the development ceased in 2017 but in late 2023 I decided to resurrect the project.

In this talk I will give a quick summary of the resurrection process and what is the current state of the project. Then, I will demonstrate live how fast is Dillo using an old netbook and explore what is capable of. This includes a tour of the new plugins for gemini, gopher, manual pages and others, some performance measurements with perf(1), energy and memory usage, as well as new features that were included recently like the new page navigation mode or zoom level.

I will also show some examples of websites that are well designed so you can read them without much difficulty on Dillo, and also the opposite.

The objective of this talk is to show that a simple web and web browser is possible.

Finally, to force ourselves to keep the browser small and simple, the next releases will continue to fit inside a floppy disk (1.44 MB) (which is monitored by the CI) and will be made available in physical format.