Please don't top post on the debian-user mailing list. On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 01:57:11PM -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > El 11/10/15 a las 13:13, moxalt escribió: > >Seriously, though, as much as you dread returning to lynx, it is the most > >bandwith-friendly option on the table. If you don't want videos of any kind, > >and are content with just plaintext (and separately downloadable images) you > >should be safe. What's so bad about lynx?
> Last time I checked, most sites don't display properly with lynx > because > they are not designed for text-based browses. All on the contrary, > most web > sites are full of useless images, but nonetheless, not displaying them > breaks those sites. I haven't found that at all. In fact pressing the '*' key loads all images, which you could download if you wanted. > There may be application for those browsers (like reading HTML manuals > that > have minimal formatting), but obviously they are not suitable for > ordinary > browsing. au contraire, I find lynx good for the majority of the sites that I visit. It's only on the rare occasion I do need to use iceweasel. I even use it for youtube to get the link then use cclive to download the video, of course I have to change to the GUI to watch it though. :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X