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If you want fast and minimal, give Lynx a try. The original fast, minimal, privacy protected browser: https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/ https://lynx.in

If you want fast and minimal, give Lynx a try. The original fast, minimal, privacy protected browser: https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/ https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/

tomrod 4y ago
Yes! CLI based browsers are awesome.
- rollcat 4y ago
  Apologies for nitpicking, but Lynx is not a CLI program. CLI programs are non-interactive, composable via stdio / shell scripting, designed to do their one task and return you to your shell prompt. Lynx is an interactive, terminal-based (character cell grid) program, that takes over your shell session - it has every quality of a GUI program, except it's using a terminal emulator as its toolkit. But of course - it's still awesome, it's just not CLI.
  - jefftk 4y ago
    Often people distinguish between "command-line interfaces" (CLI) and "text user interfaces" (TUI). So "sed" is a CLI program, while vim is a TUI program. But it's also common to use "CLI" to include "TUI" programs, so I don't think your parent is wrong.
    - rollcat 4y ago
      > But it's also common to use "CLI" to include "TUI" programs [...]. It is indeed common, and (IMO) it is harmful, as TUI programs are just GUI programs in disguise. They do have two unique strengths: readily accessible over a serial console or an SSH session; and being the lowest common denominator of GUI programming. But they don't share any of the typical (desirable) qualities of CLI programs; typically, any CLI features (if present at all) are an afterthought. $ ls | vim Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal
      - deleted 4y ago
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      - tomrod 4y ago
        Denotatively, you're 100% correct. Connotatively, I have no concerns and won't revisit the comment, but will keep the distinction in mind when addressing a technical audience.
      - bee_rider 4y ago
        The other way around, vim | ls Is a 100% foolproof and very “loud” sign that today is a scatterbrained day and I should write off the idea of being productive. Or I should have another cup of coffee.
      - ajolly 4y ago
        Thank you for drawing this distinction. I had not mentally realized the difference before, this makes me interested in trying TUI programs. Will go check lynx out today.
  - jayknight 4y ago
    It's a "TUI." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface
  - tomrod 4y ago
    I greatly appreciate the correction and feedback.
avian 4y ago
Lynx won't load Google Analytics scripts for sure. On the other hand your user agent string will be pretty much unique on the web. Partly because approximately no one is using Lynx and partly because Lynx leaks the versions of itself and just about every related library on your system in the UA string.
- rexreed 4y ago
  Fortunately you can easily override the UA string in Lynx: https://electrictoolbox.com/lynx-user-agent/ https://electrictoolbox.com/lynx-user-agent/ lynx -useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html http://www.google.com/bot.html)" -head -dump http://www.example.com/ http://www.example.com/
duffyjp 4y ago
w3m is my go to console browser. It does a better job displaying a site in a coherent way than lynx (IMO). I should add a lynx/w3m useragent test to my site and display images in AAlib for text browsers, that'd be a funny easter-egg.
- aliqot 4y ago
  > I should add a lynx/w3m useragent test to my site and display images in AAlib for text browsers, that'd be a funny easter-egg. well there goes my weekend :) I didn't know this was possible, thank you
x98asfd 4y ago
Also netsurf is a good one, if you don't really care about using js. And google seems to still work on it.

If you want fast and minimal, give Lynx a try. The original fast, minimal, privacy protected browser: https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/ https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/

tomrod 4y ago

Yes! CLI based browsers are awesome.

rollcat 4y ago
Apologies for nitpicking, but Lynx is not a CLI program. CLI programs are non-interactive, composable via stdio / shell scripting, designed to do their one task and return you to your shell prompt. Lynx is an interactive, terminal-based (character cell grid) program, that takes over your shell session - it has every quality of a GUI program, except it's using a terminal emulator as its toolkit. But of course - it's still awesome, it's just not CLI.
- jefftk 4y ago
  Often people distinguish between "command-line interfaces" (CLI) and "text user interfaces" (TUI). So "sed" is a CLI program, while vim is a TUI program. But it's also common to use "CLI" to include "TUI" programs, so I don't think your parent is wrong.
  - rollcat 4y ago
    > But it's also common to use "CLI" to include "TUI" programs [...]. It is indeed common, and (IMO) it is harmful, as TUI programs are just GUI programs in disguise. They do have two unique strengths: readily accessible over a serial console or an SSH session; and being the lowest common denominator of GUI programming. But they don't share any of the typical (desirable) qualities of CLI programs; typically, any CLI features (if present at all) are an afterthought. $ ls | vim Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal
    - deleted 4y ago
      [deleted]
    - tomrod 4y ago
      Denotatively, you're 100% correct. Connotatively, I have no concerns and won't revisit the comment, but will keep the distinction in mind when addressing a technical audience.
    - bee_rider 4y ago
      The other way around, vim | ls Is a 100% foolproof and very “loud” sign that today is a scatterbrained day and I should write off the idea of being productive. Or I should have another cup of coffee.
    - ajolly 4y ago
      Thank you for drawing this distinction. I had not mentally realized the difference before, this makes me interested in trying TUI programs. Will go check lynx out today.
- jayknight 4y ago
  It's a "TUI." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface
- tomrod 4y ago
  I greatly appreciate the correction and feedback.

avian 4y ago

Lynx won't load Google Analytics scripts for sure. On the other hand your user agent string will be pretty much unique on the web. Partly because approximately no one is using Lynx and partly because Lynx leaks the versions of itself and just about every related library on your system in the UA string.

rexreed 4y ago
Fortunately you can easily override the UA string in Lynx: https://electrictoolbox.com/lynx-user-agent/ https://electrictoolbox.com/lynx-user-agent/ lynx -useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html http://www.google.com/bot.html)" -head -dump http://www.example.com/ http://www.example.com/

duffyjp 4y ago

w3m is my go to console browser. It does a better job displaying a site in a coherent way than lynx (IMO). I should add a lynx/w3m useragent test to my site and display images in AAlib for text browsers, that'd be a funny easter-egg.

aliqot 4y ago
> I should add a lynx/w3m useragent test to my site and display images in AAlib for text browsers, that'd be a funny easter-egg. well there goes my weekend :) I didn't know this was possible, thank you

x98asfd 4y ago

Also netsurf is a good one, if you don't really care about using js. And google seems to still work on it.