Sunday, August 28, 2016

Elinks - free text-based console web browser - Archlinux

ELinks is a free text-based web browser for Unix-like operating systems. Elinks was forked from Links.


Elinks Official sites:
http://www.elinks.cz/

Elinks Features:
    • Lots of protocols (local files, finger, http, https, ftp, smb, ipv4, ipv6)
    • Authentication (HTTP authentication, Proxy authentication)
    • Persistent cookies
    • Cute menus and dialogs
    • Tabbed browsing
    • Support for browser scripting (Perl, Lua, Guile)
    • Tables and frames rendering
    • Colors
    • Background (non-blocking) downloads
      More features can be read on their sites:
      http://www.elinks.cz/features.html

      Installation on archlinux:
      $sudo pacman -S elinks
      To run Elinks, you can open on start menu, or by typing "elinks" on terminal. Here's the welcome menu of Elinks.
      Elinks - free text-based console web browser - Archlinux

      Press ok, then open the url that you want to browser:
      Elinks - free text-based console web browser - Archlinux

      Here's this sites look a like:
      Elinks - free text-based console web browser - Archlinux

      Well if you want to read sites with a simply way, maybe you can try Elinks. For navigating here's quick tips for using Elinks

      Keyboard button
      G - to open new URL
      E - To Show menu
      Elinks - free text-based console web browser - Archlinux

      Left button - Go Back
      U - Go Forward
      A - Bookmark
      CTRL-R - reload
      C - Close tab
      Q - To quit Elinks
      X - To reload
      O - Option

      That's the default key, but if you want to edit by your self you can press "K" button to setup the key binding.
      Elinks - free text-based console web browser - Archlinux

      Ok that's it, you can explore Elinks browser by yourself, enjoy.
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