JAjasonjayr·Nov 6, 2025
ELinks is the TUI browser I've used since .... forever.
https://github.com/rkd77/elinks
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10 sourceselinks is another textmode web browser that supports some javascript.
https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/
In Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintainedElinks is alive, and with better support for many modern sites (no js, though).
https://github.com/rkd77/elinks
In Lynx Browser: The Land That Time Revived (2022)How about using QuickJS instead of full-blown V8? For example, Elinks has support for SpiderMonkey, QuickJS, MuJS: https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/blob/master/doc/ecmascript.t... and takes a few MB of RAM.
In Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zigand elinks as well. it had better handling of page layout.
http://elinks.cz/ + https://github.com/rkd77/elinks
In Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?Some notable ones:
There is a recent fork of elinks which includes basic gemini support https://github.com/rkd77/elinks
There is also w3m with inline image support.
https://www.howtogeek.com/103574/how-to-browse-from-the-linu...
https://github.com/tats/w3m
Using firefox or chromium as under the hood back-end headless (browsh+firefox) would of course be best, though not as lightweight
In MacLynx beta 4: now with scrollbars and dialogue boxesAbout browsing, I had difficulties with Lynx as you can't use tabs. The last versions of Elinks were broken on OS X and outdated. I found a fork of elinks (Felinks) that offers everything I want and is easy to configure.
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/network/felinks/
https://github.com/rkd77/elinks
In Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?See also: Lynx [1], w3m [2], Links [3]/Links2 [4], ELinks [5]/FELinks [6], Browsh [7]...
[1] http://lynx.browser.org/
[2] http://w3m.sourceforge.net/
[3] http://www.jikos.cz/~mikulas/links/
[4] http://links.twibright.com/
[5] http://elinks.or.cz/
[6] https://github.com/rkd77/elinks
[7] https://www.brow.sh/
In ANSi Web Browser concept (2012)Elinks looks like it hasn't had an update in years. There's a fork of it called Felinks [0] which seems pretty actively maintained. The last release was on December 24, 2021.
[0] https://github.com/rkd77/elinks
In Each Firefox download has a unique identifierI'm using felinks https://github.com/rkd77/elinks which recently renamed itself to elinks with the permission of one of the original developers apparently. I can't live without the scripting ability of elinks. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9901932
In How and why to use Lynx – the faster web browser