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Re:Show HN: Browse Hacker News from the Comfort of Your Term... by mbrock on Friday February 05, 2016 @07:33AM (#11040967)
Have you tried using any of those browsers? I don't think they're very convenient for frequent use. In Lynx, it takes 10 keystrokes to navigate to link #1 on Hacker News. 11 if you count accepting the cookie, which you have to do every time you open it, since it doesn't persist your choice. In my terminal, Lynx fits 5 stories at a time and navigating from one to the other takes 5 key strokes.
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Re:Show HN: Browse Hacker News from the Comfort of Your Term... by basscomm on Friday February 05, 2016 @08:18AM (#11041156)
I use Lynx frequently. You can, for example, press > to go to the next link in the 'same column', which cuts down the keystrokes to go to the next story to two keystrokes.
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Re:Show HN: Browse Hacker News from the Comfort of Your Term... by mbrock on Friday February 05, 2016 @08:38AM (#11041249)
Oh, that's pretty cool.
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Re:Show HN: Browse Hacker News from the Comfort of Your Term... by coroxout on Friday February 05, 2016 @08:06AM (#11041096)
If I'm browsing a site with a top menu in lynx I press the delete key to scroll down past the menu so I don't have to press down repeatedly. Then capital V at the cookie prompt rejects it "foreVer" (for the rest of the session).

My version does, however, default to nntp for news.* subdomains unless you supply the protocol, so that's annoying.

Or you can use elinks and click on the links with the mouse...

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Re:Show HN: Browse Hacker News from the Comfort of Your Term... by Derpdiherp on Friday February 05, 2016 @10:04AM (#11041824)
You can save your cookie options by setting an option in lynx:

http://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/README.cookies

As the poster below me points out, you can navigate links pretty fast in lynx when you get the hang of it and learn a few shortcuts.

I don't use it everyday, but do use it kind of frequently.

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