Most of what I want to do on the web is read text, and while I love Firefox it’s a bit of a resource hog for quick browsing. I’ve therefore been using links2 for a while. There is also Lynx, and Elinks and probably many more I’m not aware of.
links2 was somewhat of an arbitrary choice for me, so I was wondering if any comrades used terminal-based browsers and which ones they preferred? I’d value the feature of highlighting and copying text, but maybe that’s a concern for the terminal emulator itself? links2 is fine so far but wondering if anyone was particularly passionate about their browser choice on the terminal.
(Note: I’m aware of Kristall, for Gemini/HTTP/Gopher but I’m specifically interested in a terminal-based web browser)
elinks is my favorite since it can handle CSS better than any other terminal browser I’ve tried. It’s like a more advanced links2.
Thanks. That’s interesting about the CSS. Is this more for replicating the layout and positions of elements, rather than styling?
Yes. It at least tries to follow a page’s CSS color scheme which may end up looking weird (given the limited space and color palette of a terminal) but it may also end up looking quite alright. It depends on the page. Simple HTML pages with a few CSS colored elements are usually fine.
for an unusual suggestion (which probably won’t be a solution for you since it uses Firefox in the background), there’s Browsh:
I have no idea if it’s any good, though
That is super cool, but alas not what I’m looking for! I’ve bookmarked that, though, for any potential future use-cases. Thanks for the find, comrade :-)
This is incredibly interesting!
I use w3m to read some pages that seem to have too many things blocking the text. It has it’s limitations, but it is fun to read on CoolRetroTerm.
Amazing thank you. w3m seems to be a relatively popular tool so I’ll give it a go. Thanks comrade.
links2 is a good choice imo.
emacs users have a couple different options like ewwww
Good to know! I’ve certainly not had any explicit issue with links2, but I like exploring new ways of doing things occasionally.
Alas on the emacs front I’m firmly entrenched in Vim but if I ever make the change then I’ll keep ewwww in mind :-)
W3m has long been my favorite do to it’s ease of use. However I’ve never actually actually used any of the other terminal browsers.
Ah cheers, I’ll give W3m a shot, as it’s been suggested multiple times in this thread. Thank you, comrade.
Your welcome!
