Elinks : the best text-based web browser

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If you like to browse the internet, and suddenly have to work in a text-based only environment, then I suggest that you use the Elinks web browser.

It is the best text-based web browser i ever used besides the infamous lynx. I has features that can be found in other GUI-based popular browser like :

  • Table and frames rendering
  • Tabbed Browsing
  • IPV6 support
  • CSS support
  • Javascript support
  • Colour support
  • Support http, https, ftp and smb protocol
  • History browsing

With these kind of features, I dont think you will miss browsing from a GUI based browser much. In Ubuntu, Elinks also available as a lite or normal package, the normal package is part of the Ubuntu main repository while the lite package without extra scripting support is available in the Universe repo.

I recommend Elinks for hardcore internet surfers that have to work under text-based environment, because I’m sure they’ll appreciate every bit that elinks has to offer.
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  1. k4ml Said:

    look’s interesting. opensuse 10.0 users may download the rpm here – http://alt.smach.net/files/rpm/elinks-0.11.1-2.4.i586.rpm

    or get the RPMS at http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/darix/SUSE_Linux_10.0/repodata/repoview/elinks-0-0.11.1-2.4.html

    mind to share any tips, basic keys to move around ? I’m just too lazy to read the docs ;)

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