Chromium, but It Lives Inside Your Terminal

What it does terminal-browser embeds a full Chromium instance inside your terminal emulator by streaming GPU-rendered pixels through the kitty graphics protocol. It turns a text grid into a graphical browser window with tabs, devtools, and mouse input, all without spawning a separate GUI app. The project is pitched squarely at AI coding workflows: you can park a coding agent and a live website in the same terminal tab, or preview sites running on remote machines over SSH.

The interesting bit The architecture is a stack of unlikely bedfellows. Electron’s offscreen rendering API feeds raw GPU pixels to a Rust graphics engine, while the browser chrome itself is drawn by a custom React renderer written in TypeScript—everything composited onto a single shared canvas inside the terminal. For input events the terminal cannot capture, a background Swift app eavesdrops non-intrusively on the OS, enabling smooth trackpad scrolling and infinite-canvas sites inside a text grid.

Key highlights

• Renders Chromium via the kitty graphics protocol, so it works in Ghostty, Kitty, VS Code terminal, and others.
• Exposes an action CLI that agents can use to programmatically drive open browser sessions.
• Works over SSH, letting you preview remote websites without X forwarding or a local browser.
• Composites browser content and native UI (tabs, URL bar) onto one shared canvas layered by the Rust engine.

Caveats

• Linux support appears to be partial or in progress: the README lists Linux under install but also has an open roadmap item for Linux support via a pull request.
• Some input handling relies on a macOS-specific background Swift application, which may limit functionality on other platforms.

Verdict Worth a look if you run AI agents in the terminal or frequently SSH into remote boxes and hate context-switching to a GUI browser. If your terminal emulator is already modern, this is the closest thing to a native browser that still feels like shell.