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Lynx

Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) browser for users on Unix, VMS, and other platforms...

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Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) browser for users on Unix, VMS, and other platforms running cursor-addressable, character-cell terminals or emulators. That includes vt100 terminals, other character-cell displays, and vt100 emulators such as Kermit or Procomm running on PCs or Macs.

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Free lightweight web browsers that may speed up your web navigation

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Command line interface Minimalistic SEO Audit Terminal-based Add a feature

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OS & Utilities Web Browsers

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command-line command-line-interface gopher terminal-client usenet web-browser xfce

Lynx was added by ElectricSheep in Apr 2009 and the latest update was made in Oct 2017. The list of alternatives was updated Jul 2018 There is a history of all activites on Lynx in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Lynx or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Lynx on Windows.

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Links

Links is a graphics and text mode web browser, released under GPL. Links is free software.
- It is also a command line based web browser. Guest • Mar 2016
- Does everything that Lynx does, plus a bit more! Works better with "https" protocol and has a menu for those who prefer it! vazirified • May 2017
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Lynxlet

Lynxlet is an application for launching the text web browser Lynx in a Terminal window. Lynxlet is a Termlet - a class of...

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Browsh

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Arachne

full-screen Internet suite containing a graphical web browser, email client, and dialer.
- Lynx is a _text_ web browser, and Arachne was a _suite_ with a _graphical_ web browser. gamliel • Jan 2018
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- Discontinued Latest release in 04 March 2013 for DOS and May 24, 2008 for Linux. See http://www.glennmcc.org/

Lynx Comments

Comment by vazirified

about Lynx · May 2017 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

Lightweight and great for reading text without distraction!

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