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   Ladybird

    72 likes

   Ladybird is an open-source web browser currently in development, with an alpha version expected to launch in 2026.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)

   Application type

   • Web Browser

   Origin

   • Sweden
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux
   • Haiku

   • Sweden
   • EU

   

   

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   Links

    94 likes

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

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   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Application type

   • Web Browser

   Origin

   • Czechia
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Snapcraft

   • Czechia
   • EU

   

   

   

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   Links vs Lynx Comments

   Positive comment by vazirified · May 24, 2017

   Does everything that Lynx does, plus a bit more! Works better with "https" protocol and has a menu for those who prefer it!

   Positive comment by Guest · Mar 14, 2016

   It is also a command line based web browser.

   Positive comment by aramparonikyan · Sep 7, 2015

   Unlike Chrome, IE etc, it is text based.

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   • Links is Free and Open SourceLynx is also Free and Open Source
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   Dillo

    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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Web Browser

   Origin

   • Spain
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD
   • Oracle Solaris

   • Spain
   • EU

   

   

   

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   W3M

    29 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).

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application typeApplication types

   • Web Browser
   • Terminal Emulator

   Origin

   • Japan

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux

   • Japan

   

   

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   W3M vs Lynx Comments

   Positive comment by Jupiter2 · Aug 17, 2016

   Terminal browser like Lynx

   Positive comment by aramparonikyan · Sep 7, 2015

   Unlike Chrome, IE etc, it is text based.

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   • W3M is Free and Open SourceLynx is also Free and Open Source
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   Browsh

    10 likes

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (LGPL-2.1)

   Application type

   • Web Browser

   Origin

   • United Kingdom

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD
   • OpenBSD

   

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   Lynxlet

    6 likes

   Lynxlet is an application for launching the text web browser Lynx in a Terminal window. Lynxlet is a Termlet - a class of applications designed to make Terminal based programs easy to use.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac

   • United States

   

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   luakit

    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

   Application type

   • Web Browser

   Origin

   • Canada

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD

   • Canada

   

   

   

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    uzbl

     30 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Web Browser

    Origin

    • International

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    • Global

    

    

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    Nyxt browser

     9 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

    Application type

    • Web Browser

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    • United States

    

    

    

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    Carbonyl

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)

    Application type

    • Web Browser

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    

    

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    Carbonyl vs Lynx Comments

    Positive comment by davidhill01 · Mar 13, 2025

    It doesn't work nicely in pure console - dumped me into a white screen with no navigation or UI. virtually no documentation on the github and no updates in ~2 years.

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    • Carbonyl is Free and Open SourceLynx is also Free and Open Source
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    Surfraw

     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

    Application type

    • Web Browser

    Origin

    • Australia

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    • Australia

    

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    Arachne

     1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Application type

    • Web Browser

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • DOSBox
    • MS-DOS

    

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    Discontinued

    Latest release in 04 March 2013 for DOS and May 24, 2008 for Linux. See http://www.glennmcc.org/

    Arachne vs Lynx Comments

    Negative comment by Gamliel Fishkin · Jan 21, 2018

    Lynx is a text web browser, and Arachne was a suite with a graphical web browser.

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    • Arachne is Free and Open SourceLynx is also Free and Open Source