What text Web browsers are available?
Most of our systems have elinks, links, lynx, netrik, and w3m text browsers. While less convenient to use than GUI browsers, because they work in an ordinary terminal window, text browsers can be used when a window system is not available, and they cannot display images, sound, or popups. This makes them ideal for viewing Web pages at sites that are riddled with advertising and other unwanted distractions. Because they do not support client-side program execution with Java, JavaScript and others languages, text browsers are much safer than GUI browsers. In addition, most can dump the contents of a Web page in plain text, with or without links to URLs. This makes them very useful for batch processing, such as in shell scripts. Despite working in a terminal window, elinks and links recognize the mouse for link selection. lynx and w3m make extensive use of color to making browsing easier.
