w3m

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

nvi2 [0]: I got to like the simplicity of nvi when installing Void Linux on my laptop, but it had some annoying bugs that made me switch to nvi2. In general, it feels like `good' software; powerful enough by virtue of being a 1:1 vi clone with a few crucial improvements (multibyte, multi-undo, etc.), but simple enough to hack on if I miss some feature. Though no autocomplete means it's not suitable for more verbose languages, like Java. QuickJS [1]: qjscalc is my go-to scientific calculator, and qjs my go-to JavaScript implementation for simple programs. The C interface is very nice to use, too. All in all, it feels very much like a "complete" engine, even if not quite as fast as one with JIT. w3m [2]: Somewhat lacking as a web browser, but a very good pager. Would take it over less any day. Also has the best table display of any text-mod

> I've been noodling about the implementation of adding functionality to w3m and lynx so there is a separate fetch-page func but report a different User-Agent header (eg, "Mozilla"). I've encountered many pages that don't allow access until I change the "lynx-*" header (bastards). Wouldn't this feature suffice? https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/doc/README.siteconf

While the sourceforge project is staled, there is an active fork maintained by the Debian maintainer at [0]. [0]: https://github.com/tats/w3m

w3m indents stuff correctly for me, using the version maintained for Debian: http://github.com/tats/w3m

Lynx is great, but I personally prefer w3m[1]. Of course it's still quite limited without css/js, but it renders websites way nicer (with shiny html features like frames, tables, etc.), and even supports displaying images. With the right configuration, it can also do stuff like automatically replacing urls, or youtube-dl'ing a page and piping its output to mpv. [1] https://github.com/tats/w3m

It's still doing good: https://github.com/tats/w3m I am a very happy using w3m every day. Just occasionally there is a need to use a graphical browser. There is no JS support though. Don't think there ever was.

Yes, and I feel like the internet is no longer a place I can visit without some form of protection. Things got so bad recently, that I had to switch from GNOME Web to Firefox, because I simply needed more protection than the default GNOME Web blocker could offer. Right now I run a Pi-Hole[1] for my entire network, and on Firefox I use Clear URL[2], Decentraleyes[3], HTTPS Everywhere[4], Old Reddit Redirect[5], Privacy Redirect[6], and uBlock Origin[7], configured to block third-party fonts, and JS as well — which I whitelist when needed. When I just want to read something, without having any form of interaction with the page, and I know it works well, I usually just use w3m[8] on the terminal, which I found out because of aerc[9]. Pretty cool browser for the terminal. Am I super duper secure because of all these hoops I jump through? No.

It doesn't work for me for quite a while now (for up to a year), even with recent versions from git [0]. My preliminary guess is that's because Google renders each result with <div> (block element) inside an <a> tag. I didn't have any extra spare time to test that further (and report) though, so I simply ditched Google and just went with duck.com from that point. [0] https://github.com/tats/w3m