Re:Lynx Browser: The Land That Time Revived (2022)
by dredmorbius on Friday February 21, 2025 @01:21AM
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Oh, and tabs, as TFA mentions. I find this useful, and the interface is pretty manageable, though I tend to avoid the extreme tab proliferation typical of my Firefox sessions (100s or 1,000s of tabs).
- Vim-like keybindings. I've used lynx off and on for decades, but can never internalise its keybindings, and I'm constantly surprised (in a bad way) and frustrated.
- Support for table-based layout. This is less frequently encountered online these days, though some sites (HN and pg's own blog site) still use tables.
- Graphics support, should you want that.
- Extensive settings with a good management interface.
- Pretty darned good bookmarks management. My w3m bookmarks page is my default homepage for the browser, and gives ready access to a bunch of useful sites.
- Better default formatting settings, in particular concerning paragraph breaks and the like. Lynx to me is too crowded when rendering webpages.
- Most of what Lynx can do w3m does as well, in terms of basic functionality, piping input and output, etc.
I fairly regularly try out other terminal browser options (lynx, links, elinks, etc.) but w3m is my happy place.