Lynx
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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- PortableApps.com
- Xfce
Lynx News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
K0RR added Lynx as alternative to qutebrowser, Vimb, uweb Browser and Surf
K0RR added Lynx as alternative to Rose Browser
K0RR added Lynx as alternative to FixBrowser and uzbl
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What is Lynx?
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.
Lynx information
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Open Source and Free product.Alternatives
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- English
Comments and Reviews
Lynx has two advantages: • it runs in terminal, even when no graphic desktop environment is available; • it displays sites in the way search engines see them, it is useful for web developers.
Open sourced. light-weight, minimalistic.
It has uses outside of a command-line browser. For example with the -dump option you can write quick Python scripts to crawl through the web that you will only use once or twice.
[Edited by dadoomer, March 31]
Lightweight and great for reading text without distraction!
Lynx has saved me many times when I lose my desktop. It was also a great help when I was running FreeBSD and I wanted to see the FreeBSD manual.