Try links. You can find it at http://links.sourceforge.net/ It is a better text only browser than Lynx. I always use it when searching things on the web. Fast (even faster with keyboard), reliable and secure!
/K --- George Shaffer skrev: > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 21:46, Tim McCormack wrote: > >> Chris Willis wrote: >> >>> NO browser (cept maybe a text browser in BSD or something) is really >>> 100% safe on its own. Firefox has lots of vulnerabilities, just like >>> IE. >>> >> . . . >> I agree about the text browser -- I should really familiarize myself >> with Lynx. >> > > Continuing now OT thread: > > Lynx has its uses, but anyone used to modern browsers is likely to find > it frustrating. Lynx is not just text only in that it does not display > graphics but is text based and runs in a text window (terminal). It does > not recognize tables, and most modern web pages are built in tables, > allowing the standard page and navigation elements, to be arranged above > or to the left of the main page content. This means as you read the > source, these come before the main text content. That is how Lynx > displays the page (as it is sequentially arranged in the source file) ; > the main page content is usually between a screenful or more of standard > items and links and more of this at the bottom. A page as simple as > Google's home page takes 13 tabs or down arrows to reach the search > field. Yahoo, on the other hand recognizes it has received a request > from a text browser, and sends a different page where the search field > is the first item on the page after "Yahoo". Lynx takes some getting > used to. > > Lynx is not simple. It's default configuration file is 140K, but mostly > explanatory comments. It has about 135 options. I don't know that you > can assume it's 100% safe. If you eliminate all active content from your > current browser, or install an alternate browser (e.g., Netscape, Opera) > and disable all active content, and severely control cookies, wouldn't > that do what Lynx is intended to do while still seeing most web pages, > more or less as intended? > > George Shaffer > > >
