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Brow6el: Terminal Browser with Chromium & Graphics

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Brow6el is a full-featured web browser designed for the terminal, leveraging Chromium (CEF) and supporting Sixel and Kitty graphics protocols. It aims to provide a robust browsing experience without leaving the command line.

Key features include Vim-style modal control (STANDARD, INSERT, MOUSE, VISUAL), Grid Jump Mode for precise mouse positioning, an element inspector, a JavaScript console, bookmarks, user script injection, and a download manager. Brow6el supports modern web standards including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.

The browser is built for Linux and Windows (via WSL2) and has been tested in various terminals like foot, wezterm, and kitty. While Kitty graphics support has some limitations, especially over SSH, Sixel rendering offers an alternative. The project is developed with POC code quality and provides a `./download_cef.sh` script for acquiring CEF binaries and `./build.sh` for compilation.