Comments on: A comparison of text-based browsers

By: Lazy Reading – DragonFly BSD Digest

Lazy Reading – DragonFly BSD Digest — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:54:38 +0000

[...] Also stolen from the same place: A comparison of text-based browsers. [...]

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:50:48 +0000

Hey, next time, please have a paragraph at the end with a clear conclusion of the winner. I skimmed the article and didn’t glean anything from it. The last sentence “And now, purely as torture for anyone who has read this far, I give you the obvious and clear winner over all others in this category:” ironically featured an image which wouldn’t have been viewable in any of the browsers mentioned, not to mention the actual image didn’t seem to contain any useful information that the sentence promised.

By: Effe

Effe — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:02:51 +0000

mmm… wordpress is eating up my regex

http://pastebin.de/14640

And I’m sure there is a way to make even harder to use.

By: Effe

Effe — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:59:16 +0000

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present the worst possible browsing experience with a minimum of resources:

curl kmandla.wordpress.com | sed s// /g | less

By: rejistania

rejistania — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:35:10 +0000

Wow! Awesome article! I personally am partial to elinks but will look at retawq now.

By: … zu guter Letzt » F!XMBR

… zu guter Letzt » F!XMBR — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:00:50 +0000

[...] A comparison of text-based browsers «I’m going to borrow an idea for a post from persea, who suggested taking a look at the running weight of several browsers — specifically text-only browsers — for a comparison.» [...]

By: Going Old School « Freed Up Thoughts

Going Old School « Freed Up Thoughts — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:17:20 +0000

[...] a week ago K. Mandla wrote a post on his blog about textual web browsers. It sparked some inspiration in me to see what it was like to view a few webpages in the [...]

By: technologyunit

technologyunit — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:56:11 +0000

After you wrote this I when and installed links. (I had used it in the past) and found that it is actually a lot of fun to just browse the internet with out distractions. Thanks for bringing something back from my youth.

By: mulenmar

mulenmar — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:27:55 +0000

I remember one or two sites being slow to load in Elinks, but the one I remember is the Ubuntu forums. Worked fine when I changed the user agent string, and slightly better when I blacklisted the ipv6 module.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:20:54 +0000

Out of curiosity do you have CSS enabled on elinks?

I found that it causes some pages to load very slowly.
I just enabled it to test and it seems to only cause a problem on bigger pages (I couldn’t find a wikipidia page that would load slowly but engadget.com (a very large site) was slow but near instant with CSS disabled).

This is on a wired broadband connection and a 2.5 Ghz dual core machine with Arch and no X (so I’m guessing it’s not my system resources).