Termium
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- TOOL
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- Productivity & Collaboration
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- 213 stars
- Latest release
- v0.2.4
- Date
About
Termium runs a real Chromium browser inside the terminal, rendering pages as Kitty graphics, Sixel or colored ASCII blocks depending on what the terminal supports. Vimium is included, so links, scrolling and tabs are keyboard driven, and mouse keys cover clicks. It is an early release for Linux, macOS and Windows via WSL2.
At a glance
Termium runs Chromium and draws the rendered page inside a terminal. It is worth trying if you often read web documentation from an SSH session and want to navigate real pages without opening a desktop browser on the remote machine.
Good fit
Keyboard-first terminal users with a graphics-capable terminal and a compatible host on which to run Chromium.
Consider something else when
Use your regular browser if you need to keep a signed-in session across launches or the remote host cannot run Chromium with its sandbox.
Start here
After checking the platform requirements, open a public documentation page, press f to follow a link with Vimium and use j or k to scroll. Try a page with a form to see whether terminal rendering fits your daily workflow.
Cost and requirements
The source and releases are public. Supported hosts include Linux x86-64, macOS and Windows through WSL2 x86-64. A terminal with Kitty graphics or Sixel gives you page images. Other terminals fall back to ASCII.
Limits to know
Normal launches use a temporary Chromium profile, so sessions do not persist. Over SSH, Chromium runs on the remote host, which matters when deciding which machine should handle page traffic and credentials.
Sources checked 2026-11-05. Source-based assessment.
Why it made the leaderboard
Gives terminal-bound workflows a real JavaScript-capable browser with keyboard-driven navigation, rendering through Kitty, Sixel or ASCII depending on the terminal.
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