On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 03:12:25PM EDT, Miciah Dashiel Butler Masters wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 07:09:18PM +0000, Miciah Dashiel Butler Masters wrote: > [...] > >The general reasons I use ELinks, most of which others have touched > >upon, are > [...] > > Oh, and one other pet peeve I forgot to mention: Unlike Chrome and > Firefox, ELinks doesn't burn CPU (and thus generate heat and waste > battery) when it's idle.
Looks like I missed out on this one. I fully agree with the above - having had to kill idle Firefox sessions on a number of occasions because it was using some 30% CPU _and_ causing X to do likewise, nicely giving the fan on my laptop a nice prolonged workout in the process. System's temperature in such circumstances is somewhere in the vicinity of 78°C. While I'm at it, I thought I'd mention an additional reason why I use ELinks: For mutt users like myself, ELinks is great for displaying email messages because (obviously) http links are directly accessible by just tabbing to them and hitting enter. Considerably more user-friendly than urlview/urlscan and in essence, nicely emulates what you get in GUI style mail readers, but especially on slower machines, it is considerably faster. in $HOME/.muttrc: macro index \cv |elinks\n' macro pager \cv |elinks\n' And whenever I see an http link in an email message in mutt's default pager, I just hit CTRL-V and voilà, I'm in web browsing mode. cj -- Lads whose job is still to do Shall whet their knives and think of you. - Hugh Kingsmill _______________________________________________ elinks-users mailing list elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users