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No free web browsers for Linux?No free web browsers for Linux?Posted Apr 2, 2008 18:40 UTC (Wed) by dark (subscriber, #8483)In reply to: No free web browsers for Linux? by adj Parent article: WebKit rising
I think that time was not 1995-1996, but 1998-1999. This was when graphical web browsers were the norm and fewer and fewer sites were designed with text in mind. Communicator wasn't free, Mozilla wasn't usable yet, chimera and amaya were buggy and incomplete. I stuck with lynx while I searched far and wide for a graphical browser that didn't suck, but that doesn't mean lynx was usable in that year's web. Actually I'm still looking :) Suckiness may be inherent in the task. Whenever you're almost done supporting the current mess of pages, some new trend shows up that demands elevated levels of suck to support it.
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No free web browsers for Linux? Posted Apr 2, 2008 19:35 UTC (Wed) by jmm (subscriber, #34596) [Link] If you're still looking, look into elinks. I use it for 90% of my private web browser usage and in comparison to lynx it's not crippled wrt to modern web standards (it supports frames, tabbed browsing, SSL) has all the required usability features (download manager, powerful bookmark manager) and is very efficiently controlled by keyboard.
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