Try it on

Every website,
as a terminal.

A tuxedo is not what you wear every day — it is what you change into. TUX doesn’t restyle pages, it reads the live DOM and redraws the document as a character grid. Box-drawn tables, numbered references, regex search, folds and a : command line. The real page stays alive underneath, so links, buttons and form fields still act on the actual elements.

Download the extension How to install →

Live — click it, then ⌥ ← →menu ⌥ ↑ ↓regions tabrefs cactions /search ?keys

fathom.markets/m/fed-sep --:--:--

What it does

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An app, not a dump

A wordmark and menu along the top, the page’s regions on a strip below, one region in the body. ⌥→ walks the menu, ⌥↓ the regions.

Search and grep

Incremental regex search with smart case, and :grep to hide every line that doesn’t match. Folds collapse nav and footers.

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Images as ASCII

A 70-step ramp with contrast stretch, rendered in the service worker so cross-origin images don’t taint the canvas.

A command line

:open :toc :theme :mode reader :yank — tab completes, and :help lists the lot.

Install in under a minute

Download,
load unpacked.

TUX is a Manifest V3 extension for Chrome, Edge and Brave. It asks for storage and host access so it can read the page you’re on — no accounts, no tracking, and the only network call it makes is fetching an image you can already see, to turn it into ASCII.

Download the zip and unpack it somewhere permanent.
Open chrome://extensions and turn on Developer mode.
Click Load unpacked and pick the folder.
Open any page. Alt+T toggles, ? opens the manual.

Download TUX 0.1.0

Auto-run is on by default — every page opens as a terminal.
Alt+Shift+T or :disable opts a site out. q hands the page back.

TUX v0.1.0

Terminal modeThis tab, right nowon

Auto-run on loadTake over pages automaticallyon

fathom.marketsPer-site switchon

Reader modeArticle only, no chromeoff

Themeslate

alt-t toggle? manual

It is a terminal, so it has keys

The page

⌥ → ⌥ ←	walk the page’s menu bar
⌥ ↓ ⌥ ↑	move between regions
] [	the same, no modifier
c	the pinned actions
esc	step out a level

Acting

j k ↓ ↑	move the cursor
12 enter	follow reference [12]
tab	walk links and fields
enter	act on what is focused
i	edit the focused field

Looking

/ n N	search · next · previous
za zM zR	fold · fold all · unfold
t · + −	theme · font size
m · y	reader mode · yank page
? · q	manual · quit to the site

Every website, as a terminal.