Any lynx users still here?

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Sep 27, 2019, 3:47:15 AM9/27/19

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Sep 27, 2019, 8:45:33 PM9/27/19

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No they have all died. People are using Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome. Even Firefox has become a relic these days!!!.

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Ant

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Sep 28, 2019, 4:56:34 AM9/28/19

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Rarely, I use it. I prefer eLinks more.
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Jul 15, 2020, 7:59:30 PM7/15/20

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I prefer links+ in GUI mode, but I often use it for most news
being read from the RSS reader. Dillo is better sometimes.

Andrew T.

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Sep 14, 2020, 9:31:31 PM9/14/20

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I've recently gone back to using lynx more for browsing. It seems
good for bypassing most web annoyances and loads pages faster than any
recent graphical browser. Plus I like being able to selectively
accept cookies when I visit a site (though it can get slightly
annoying at times).

When I need a graphical/JS-enabled browser, I'm using either Pale Moon
or an ancient version of Firefox. Sites that don't play well with
these browsers are usually dead to me unless there's a very compelling
reason to accomodate them.

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Sep 16, 2020, 12:59:21 PM9/16/20

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On 2020-09-15, Andrew T. <and...@turnquist.name.invalid> wrote:
> I've recently gone back to using lynx more for browsing. It seems
> good for bypassing most web annoyances and loads pages faster than any
> recent graphical browser. Plus I like being able to selectively
> accept cookies when I visit a site (though it can get slightly
> annoying at times).

I'm not using lynx, but I'm using links2 in graphic mode on my NetBSD. I
have Seamonkey and Firefox as well, but I limit their usage and prefer
link2.

As you, I think it's super fast and much less invasive.

nico...@sdf.org

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Mar 21, 2021, 5:44:46 PM3/21/21

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Andrew T. <and...@turnquist.name.invalid> wrote:
> I've recently gone back to using lynx more for browsing. It seems
> good for bypassing most web annoyances and loads pages faster than any
> recent graphical browser.

Another happy lynx user here!

> When I need a graphical/JS-enabled browser, I'm using either Pale Moon
> or an ancient version of Firefox.

I didn't know about Pale Moon, thanks for sharing.
I like it, and seems snappier than recent versions of Firefox.
(It has a funny baseline 20% CPU usage on my system though,
even as it shouldn't be doing anything.)

Ant

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Mar 21, 2021, 6:38:53 PM3/21/21

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FYI. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=210616 for macOS users (no more Pale Moon).
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Andy Valencia

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Mar 21, 2021, 11:05:30 PM3/21/21

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nico...@sdf.org writes:

> Andrew T. <and...@turnquist.name.invalid> wrote:
> > I've recently gone back to using lynx more for browsing. It seems
> > good for bypassing most web annoyances and loads pages faster than any
> > recent graphical browser.

> Another happy lynx user here!

I've actually settled on "links", which is apparently a slimmer
version of links2, and svelter than elinks as well. Its rendering
is a little cleaner than lynx's.

Andy Valencia
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Philipp Klaus Krause

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Mar 26, 2021, 1:16:34 PM3/26/21

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Am 15.09.20 um 03:31 schrieb Andrew T.:

> I've recently gone back to using lynx more for browsing. It seems
> good for bypassing most web annoyances and loads pages faster than any
> recent graphical browser. Plus I like being able to selectively
> accept cookies when I visit a site (though it can get slightly
> annoying at times).
>
> When I need a graphical/JS-enabled browser, I'm using either Pale Moon
> or an ancient version of Firefox. Sites that don't play well with
> these browsers are usually dead to me unless there's a very compelling
> reason to accomodate them.
>
> --Andrew
>

I've just used Lynx again for the first time in years. I needed to check
the FAQ on a website with an expired certificate, and neither irefox nor
Chromium allowed to access the site. Lynx still gives me the option of
going onto the page (and fortunately, the page looks fine in Lynx).