Comments on: User-agent swap boosts elinks speed

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:43:21 +0000

You’re welcome.

By: colonelcrayon

colonelcrayon — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:26:27 +0000

Thank you! This is wonderful.

By: martintxo

martintxo — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:29:49 +0000

I have made some test with wikipedia and ubuntuforums, with the standar user agent, whit no user agent, and with the one of this seamonkey browser (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090913 SeaMonkey/1.1.18).

For me the time to load this 2 pages are the same with these user agents:
- http://ubuntuforums.org/: 1-2 sec more or less
- http://es.wikipedia.org/: 8-9 seconds

This machine: Pentium III at 531.521 Mhz, 500 Mb of RAM.

By: mulenmar

mulenmar — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:05:46 +0000

I’ve done that before, it’s a cool trick. I don’t understand why the “Javascript disabled” warning would come up in Elinks, though — I thought Elinks used Spidermonkey for that?

By: evidex

evidex — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:33:35 +0000

Can I ask, how do you get your elinks to display Ubuntu Forums like is does in your second desktop shot? I’d like to try and wean my older computer off Firefox or Epiphany, but the formatting in elinks is easy to put off someone

By: n2j3

n2j3 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:55:43 +0000

cheers, nice trick in w3m you issue the following

w3m -o user_agent=”Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5″

By: Sertse

Sertse — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:46:52 +0000

Another cool feature of using a firefox user agent on elinks is that even site like facebook now work with it.

Instead of telling you that your browser is incompatible, which would prevent logging in at all, you only get the javascript disabled warning and it works!

It’s even better using “facebook lite”, since regular facebook depends a lot on javascipt so you can’t do much even when logged in, while lite doesn’t.

Needless to say, I was quite surprised by that. Social networking in the console