My Browser Of Choice
Among the ongoing online nerd battles, none is more popular and controversial as browser choice (except Mac vs. PC). Do you use Firefox or IE or Safari or Camino or Opera or what?
I'm here to tell you today what I use, so that you may benefit from my superior computer knowledge.
My browser of choice: Lynx.
Lynx gets rid off all the crap - the images, the flash, the javascript, pretty much everything except the text. Run in full screen mode with a classic terminal emulator like GLTerminal (complete with 2400bps modem emulation and screen flicker), Lynx is about the fastest no frills browser around. I've been using it since 1992.
Here are some shots of my Macbook Pro running Lynx.
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why do you prefer it this
why do you prefer it this way? personally, i am a visual browser. i like to look at pictures of everything...if i'm attracted by the pictures or title, i read, otherwise, i tend to skip over it...and...i've always seemed to like safari...i have firefox, but for some reason i always just go with safari...seems to be faster than firefox...am i wrong? is firefox faster than safari??
As I am now employed to make
As I am now employed to make pretty intarnets, I couldn't stand to use Linux. I do use Safari though, simply because Firefox seems to like to act faulty on my Mac.
Dude, you're totally
Dude, you're totally l33t!~~~!!@!@ELEVNE!!n!!11!!! If you could bottle how cool you are, I'd buy it right now.
innocentsheep: Why wouldn't
innocentsheep: Why wouldn't you use Linux? You can run firefox in linux and get full rendered splendor for your purdy little intranets.
Oooooh, did you mean lynx? Lynx is pronounced "links" while linux is pronounced "awesome"
can you still play global
can you still play global thermal nuclear war with lynx?
Consider upgrading to ELinks
Consider upgrading to ELinks (http://elinks.or.cz/). It pretty much is a modernized Lynx. Console-based, but better rendering.
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