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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

text browsers:w3m, links & lynx

Text browsers have two advantages.
1. Fast. Because you needn't download images which consumes a large amount of time while you can still view images if you want. By the way, FireFox can also discard images by a simple setting.
2. Browse a web through another computer which may be conneted by an ssh connection. For example, in our univ. the connection to foreign website is usually slow and many even can't be accessed. Fortunately, unix-center provides some computer which registered users can use for free. Thus I can use remote text browsers through an ssh connection.
w3m is the default text browser of Ubuntu OSes.
links is the default text browser of Fedora Core OSes.
lynx is the default text browser of Solaris OSes.
The commands in w3m is similar to vi/vim. So it's more suitable for the one who have already been familiar with vi/vim.

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