What is Lynx?
Lynxis a text-only surfing app that is designed to allow terminal-based systems to access web pages on the Internet.
As it relates to Linux, Lynx is a web web app that runs in the Terminal.
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Why Should You Use Lynx?
Since Lynx only loads text, it has some key advantages over other web browsers.
Since it is text-only and key-command driven, you’re experiencing the internet in a whole new way.
Keep in mind that Lynx has some limitations.
It cannot load anything that cannot be rendered as text.
Lynx cannot loadJavascript, which is essential code for some websites to load.
As such, some sites might be inaccessible or have certain parts broken.
This may prevent you from using email or logging onto certain websites.
Open a terminal and throw in the following commands for your respective distribution.
To go to a specific URL at any time, hit the G key and aURLprompt will open.
(We can automate this prompt in the Options discussed below.)
To scroll down a web page, press the Space bar or Page Down.
Press Page Up to scroll up a web page.
Pressing the Right Arrow key or Enter acts the same as clicking a highlighted link.
Along the bottom of the Terminal window is a list of hotkeys.
One of these is how Lynx handles cookies.
(I suggest checking the box to reject all cookies to simplify web browsing.)
won’t be saved between sessions.
Give it a try and enjoy the Internet like never before!
