Yoda is a privacy-oriented graphical browser for the Gemini protocol.
Written in Rust, it uses GTK 4 and Libadwaita to provide a modern Linux desktop interface.
The browser is designed for users who want tight control over network activity. It avoids background connections, content preloading, automatic update checks, and automatically following external redirects.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Multi-tab interface with pinned tabs, keyboard shortcuts, and bookmarks.
- Supports Gemini status codes and the Gemtext markup format.
- Displays Gemini, Markdown, NEX, and plain text documents.
- Renders GIF, JPEG, PNG, and WebP images.
- Server certificate validation using trust on first use.
- Creates, imports, exports, selects, and deletes client identities.
- Flexible proxy configuration with prioritised regular-expression rules and ignored hosts.
- Custom search providers.
- Recently visited page history.
- Restores window size, open tabs, pinned state, page titles, and requests.
- Titan protocol support for text input and file uploads.
- NEX protocol support for encrypted mesh networks.
- Source viewer with syntax highlighting.
- Local file browsing using file URLs.
- Saves pages and unsupported content types to files.
- Avoids background connections, automatic content preloading, and automatic update checks.
Website: github.com/YGGverse/Yoda
Support:
Developer: YGGverse
License: MIT License
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|---|---|
| Lagrange | Beautiful typography with full Unicode support |
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| Geopard | Colorful, adaptive Gemini browser |
| Agregore | Minimal web browser for the distributed web |
| Castor | Supports the Gemini, Gopher and Finger protocols |
| Eva | GTK+ client written in Rust |
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