Is Lynx the fastest browser? Is Lynx any good?
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Is Lynx the fastest browser? Is Lynx any good?
Has anyone used Lynx ? Can you recommend something smaller/faster that you've used? Thanks.
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kmeleon is fastest browser I ever used.
Its also a Gecko like Mozilla and Firefox.
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Its also a Gecko like Mozilla and Firefox.
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
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Lynx is a really good and fast browser. Of course, it's text only.
It's amazing how much faster things are when you don't need to load pictures or flash or anything.
It's amazing how much faster things are when you don't need to load pictures or flash or anything.
The most important thing is getting newbies to use Thunderbird and Firefox.
Otherwise they'll be using Outlook and Internet Explorer and clogging up our bandwidth with their virii.
Otherwise they'll be using Outlook and Internet Explorer and clogging up our bandwidth with their virii.
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Caetck wrote:kmeleon is fastest browser I ever used.
Its also a Gecko like Mozilla and Firefox.
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
try lynx. it's loads faster.
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Lin X. wrote:Has anyone used Lynx ? Can you recommend something smaller/faster that you've used? Thanks.
scratch wrote:Caetck wrote:kmeleon is fastest browser I ever used.
Its also a Gecko like Mozilla and Firefox.
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
try lynx. it's loads faster.
Very interesting =P
On a different note, what does "text-based browser" mean? I've only used IE and Firefox to a great degree, although I have tried Opera and a few other leading browsers before. Are Lynx, Kmeleon, w3m, and similar browsers better than Firefox in any way at all?
Thanks,
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A "text-based" browser is one that doesn't need a graphical environment to run. Hence, it can't display images or other media embedded in pages. The three most common text-based browsers are Lynx, Links and w3m.
The key point about them is that they don't run in a GUI environment (like IE, Firefox, Opera et al), they use a console to display text in web pages. They typically can't display images without some sort of external helper app. The Links screenshot page shows Links running in a Unix terminal, but it could just as easily run without X.
Whether Lynx (or any other text browser) is better than Firefox is a matter of opinion really. The package size of Lynx is very small, it does run lightning-fast, but it has no mouse support (Links does, just fyi), and you won't get "rich" displays of content as you will in Firefox or any other modern graphical browser. That said, Lynx is a very useful tool for web designers, as it allows you to quickly test the accessibility of your site.
The key point about them is that they don't run in a GUI environment (like IE, Firefox, Opera et al), they use a console to display text in web pages. They typically can't display images without some sort of external helper app. The Links screenshot page shows Links running in a Unix terminal, but it could just as easily run without X.
Whether Lynx (or any other text browser) is better than Firefox is a matter of opinion really. The package size of Lynx is very small, it does run lightning-fast, but it has no mouse support (Links does, just fyi), and you won't get "rich" displays of content as you will in Firefox or any other modern graphical browser. That said, Lynx is a very useful tool for web designers, as it allows you to quickly test the accessibility of your site.
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MaStAViC wrote:Very interesting =P
On a different note, what does "text-based browser" mean? I've only used IE and Firefox to a great degree, although I have tried Opera and a few other leading browsers before. Are Lynx, Kmeleon, w3m, and similar browsers better than Firefox in any way at all?
Thanks,
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Kmeleon isn't like the Lynx or w3m. It is not text-based. <a href="http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/">K-Meleon</a> is a Mozilla-based (it uses Gecko for layout) browser only for Windows that's much more light-weight than Firefox even, and is also faster from using a native GUI, instead of Firefox/Mozilla's cross-platform GUI.
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Thanks a LOT to Budrick and jrduncans for all the info! I can definitely see how text-based browsers can be useful for certain people, and now I understand why a computer user like me, the type that only uses computers for "regular" activities and not actually program and such, would have never heard of these types of browsers before: for one, they are not as mainstream as IE and, heck, Firefox (less than 5% of my friends have actually heard of Firefox - the only Web browsers most of my friends have heard of are IE and Netscape).
REALLY appreciate the help,
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REALLY appreciate the help,
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