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Please, state your reasons for your terminal browser. Why are you using Lynx or Elinks? How do they help you in programming?
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elinks is the active version of links . Its Git repo is alive (six 0.12 beta versions since July 2008) but last stable release is old (0.11. 7 in August 2009). lynx is a bit more active than elinks and last stable release is almost as old (2.8.
ELinks is a free text-based web browser for Unix-like operating systems. It began in late 2001 as an experimental fork by Petr Baudiš of the Links Web browser, hence the E in the name. Since then, the E has come to stand for Enhanced or Extended.
To use Links, simply type links <url> on the command line. Once Links is open, you can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate a page or perform operations. The up and down arrow keys move the caret from one link to the next.
If you're asking which I prefer for a more complete browsing experience, I prefer Elinks. It has tabbed browsing, download/password managing, and tabbed navigation (handy when in a terminal). It also (partially) supports CSS 2.1, (fully) supports frames. It also (partially) supports JavaScript. Not as important, but Elinks supports more protocols than Lynx (I specifically use the Bittorrent protocol).
If you're asking which is more suitable for testing text-only browsers, Lynx is probably more popular, but Elinks is still a great choice here as well.
For comparision look here.
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Quoting from A comparison of text-based browsers. This text contains reviews and screen shots of six text-based browsers.
Lynx does a lot of the things elinks does, and does a fairly quick and clean job doing it.
I found only one options page and it is very easy to navigate. In fact, one of the things I liked best about lynx was it’s flat approach to configuration. Everything is right there, and easy to control.
That being said, lynx probably has the most configuration options at the command line of all the six listed here. Looking over the --help list, it seems like just about anything can be turned on or off … even turning things on or off.
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