Text Mode Web Browsers

Lynx

Lynx is a text browser for the World Wide Web.

• Homepage: http://lynx.browser.org/
• Supports: Tables, SSL
• Maintained: Yes
• Operating Systems: Un*x, VMS, Windows 95/98/NT, DOS386+ but not 3.1, 3.11, or OS/2 EMX.

Links

• Homepage: http://links.sourceforge.net/
• Supports: Tables, Frames, SSL
• Maintained: Yes
• Operating Systems: MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP), POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), OS X, BeOS, IBM OS/2

ELinks

ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web (HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables, is highly customizable and can be extended via Lua or Guile scripts. It is very portable and runs on a variety of platforms.

• Homepage: http://elinks.or.cz/
• Maintained: Yes
• Supports: Tables, Frames, SSL, CSS, JavaScript
• Operating Systems:

W3M

w3m is a text-based web browser as well as a pager like `more' or `less'. With w3m you can browse web pages through a terminal emulator window (xterm, rxvt or something like that). Moreover, w3m can be used as a text formatting tool which typesets HTML into plain text.

• Homepage: http://w3m.sourceforge.net/
• Maintained: Yes
• Supports: Tables, Frames, SSL
• Operating Systems: MS-Windows with Cygwin32, Solaris 2.5, SunOs 4.1.x, HP-UX 9.x and 10.x, Linux 2.0.30 and 2.2.9 with glibc 2.1, FreeBSD 2.2.8 and 3.1, EWS4800 Release 12.2 Rev.A

Emacs/W3

• Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/w3/
• Maintained: No
• Supports: Tables, SSL, CSS
• Operating Systems: