Favorite text-based browser?

pogeymanz · 2008-08-21 20:04:42

I usually like Elinks, but it isn't working well on my machine. It takes way too long to connect to each site, even after disabling ipv6. It seems to be a common bug/problem. Until it's fixed, I'll try another one.

What's your favorite?

nogoma · 2008-08-21 20:10:20

w3m is one of my first pacman -S's on a fresh install.

catwell · 2008-08-21 21:50:39

I use links2, it's enough for me and the -g switch is great...

scrawler · 2008-08-21 23:10:28

I like w3m too. I mostly use it as a pager instead of less. I like being able to use a mouse with it though, so I have to tweak the official pkgbuild a bit. I also like the way it converts html to text with the page formatting pretty much intact.
w3m http://page.html > page.txt

emacs-w3m is cool too, but I don't use it that much.

Barrucadu · 2008-08-22 16:45:53

I use w3m, mostly for the reason mentioned above - page formatting is mostly intact, which is a very nice feature.

Wintervenom · 2008-08-22 16:56:26

Elinks. BitTorrent, JavaScript, tabs, 256 colors, list continues.

Last edited by Wintervenom (2009-08-05 13:40:19)

Gullible Jones · 2008-08-22 19:04:19

links. Just works, and is a wonderful thing to have when X borks on you.

shining · 2008-08-22 20:07:20

I was surprised to only hear about links / elinks all the time. I always had a much better experience with w3m (both rendering and usability).
However w3m was already mentioned 3 times so that reassures me a bit

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