Which (Text|Terminal)-based Web Browser to use?

codemac · 2006-12-14 18:48:38

So after seeing phrakture's post about w3m + w3mimgdisplay? or something like that, I was wondering what terminal browsers people preferred and why.

dolby · 2006-12-14 19:46:20

none cause terminal web browsers suck!

but id like to know too never tried anyone

phrakture · 2006-12-14 19:57:03

I used elinks for a while because it renders html decently. Then I realized "it's a text mode browser, I want it to render how it looks best in text", and that seems to be w3m.

What I like most about w3m is the sane navigation. elinks key navigation used to piss me off. Sure, you could change it, but that's alot to change.

w3m seems to have more "sane defaults" - it's the same reason I like weechat over irssi.

That said, the w3mimgdisplay thing just furthers the "OMG" factor of w3m.

It *does* work within screen too, but not over ssh (yet?). The only problem is that w3m images are positioned with absolute values, and it can't interpret where screen splits are at, so renders on top of other crap.

dolby · 2007-01-01 00:32:13

after trying out w3m elinks & lynx i prefered elinks. it seems to be better at least at this point

bones · 2007-01-01 00:42:11

Currently using lynx but playing around with the others to see which I like the best,

cactus · 2007-01-01 01:05:05

when I *do* use a console browser, I use w3m.

pauldonnelly · 2007-01-01 02:20:10

I use w3m on the rare occasions that I want to access the net from a console. I generally avoid it though... on simple HTML pages text mode is great, but in the graphical hell the web has become, I need a graphical browser to cope.

scrawler · 2007-01-01 17:34:31

w3m all day long, and twice on sunday.

the arch w3m has the mouse disabled for some reason, but I like being able to use the mouse.

w3m has tabs, multiple external editors and browsers bound to keys, and it is a better pager than less. it is also great for stripping the html out of webpages, while maintaining some formatting.

w3m h tt p : / / website.com/i ndex.html > index.txt

I also use it in with rox to browse text. (select files, send to a script, browse in w3m's tabs)

w3m is great.

chrismortimore · 2007-01-01 22:28:47

I use links quite a lot. When I can't be bothered starting X.

RevertTS · 2007-01-02 18:11:53

phrakture wrote:

What I like most about w3m is the sane navigation. elinks key navigation used to piss me off. Sure, you could change it, but that's alot to change.

That's why I started using it. It's very convenient having a text-mode browser, and I find myself using it more and more. I used Lynx for quite awhile, but I never used elinks a whole lot; planning on going back and trying them again, but w3m just seems to format stuff better.

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Which (Text|Terminal)-based Web Browser to use?

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