Lynx Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Lynx for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Ladybird, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Lynx and 11 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Lynx are Links, Dillo, W3M and Browsh.

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  1. Links icon
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    Links is a text mode web browser, released under GPL. Links2 has the ability to display graphics.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
     
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  2. Dillo icon
     36 likes

    Dillo is a multi-platform graphical web browser, known for its speed and small footprint, that is developed with a focus on personal security and privacy.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Oracle Solaris
     
  3.  27 likes

    w3m is a text-based web browser as well as a pager like ' more ' or ' less '. With w3m you can browse web pages through a terminal emulator window (xterm, rxvt or something like that).

    7 W3M alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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  4. Browsh icon
     9 likes

    A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers.

    8 Browsh alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  5. Nyxt browser icon
     10 likes

    Nyxt is a new type of web browser for power users. It's built from the ground-up to be completely customizable. Out of the box Nyxt ships with tens of features that allow you to quickly analayze, navigate, and extract information from the Internet.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  6. uzbl icon
     31 likes

    Uzbl is a lightweight webkit browser following the UNIX philosophy - to do one thing and do it well.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  7. luakit icon
     10 likes

    luakit is a fast, light and simple to use micro-browser framework exensible by Lua using the WebKit web content engine and the GTK+ toolkit.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. Surfraw icon
     2 likes

    Surfraw - Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. Carbonyl icon
     4 likes

    Carbonyl is a Chromium based browser built to run in a terminal.

    46 Carbonyl alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  10.  1 like

    full-screen Internet suite containing a graphical web browser, email client, and dialer.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
    • DOSBox
    • MS-DOS
     
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