Lynx
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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...
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
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- Xfce
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Free lightweight web browsers that may speed up your web navigation
Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, Microsoft Edge, these are probably browsers the majority of you use. Indeed, these browsers are probably the best ones on the market right now, we can’t argue with that. However, as the industry is massive, there are a lot of lightweight, fast and minimal lesser-known options, that some users might consider using.
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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.