#w3m — Public Fediverse posts
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Servo 2025 Stats
https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-2025-stats/On this curve we clearly see the drop in contributions following the abandon by Mozilla and the incredible rise since.
2023 was already a better year than 2020, and it was x3 in 2025 compared to Mozilla's period. A beautiful square-root shaped curve : √
Ok it's not ready yet, but a lot of people are rushing toward this goal.
#Servo #webbrowser #browser #firefox #chrome #chromium #mozilla #GoodByMozilla #librewolf #zenbrowser #falkon #waterfox #TorBrowser #vanadium #thorium #vivaldi #helium #brave #edge #opera #safari #orion #ladybird #angelfish #netsurf #dillo #iridium #lynx #w3m
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Servo 2025 Stats
https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-2025-stats/On this curve we clearly see the drop in contributions following the abandon by Mozilla and the incredible rise since.
2023 was already a better year than 2020, and it was x3 in 2025 compared to Mozilla's period. A beautiful square-root shaped curve : √
Ok it's not ready yet, but a lot of people are rushing toward this goal.
#Servo #webbrowser #browser #firefox #chrome #chromium #mozilla #GoodByMozilla #librewolf #zenbrowser #falkon #waterfox #TorBrowser #vanadium #thorium #vivaldi #helium #brave #edge #opera #safari #orion #ladybird #angelfish #netsurf #dillo #iridium #lynx #w3m
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Okay...how do other folks decide between different terminal-based web browsers?
Lynx is the one that gets mentioned the most on fedi. It also has by far the highest popcon on Debian.
It seems Lynx is part of the same family tree as links, links2, and elinks. Trying all of them, I really don't see much difference between Lynx and Links: the only differences I notice are that they use different default colors for text, and links has a smaller file size.
Links2 can run in either graphical or terminal mode. I can't use the graphical mode due to a lack of dark mode. The terminal version of link2 seems identical to links: is there even a difference?
Elinks, when used as a web browser, seems nearly identical to the other three, aside from a different color scheme. Its website claims it supports CSS and JS, but I haven't seen those actually make a difference on a real website. Elinks can also work as a gemini and gopher browser, which is a nice perk.
Outside of the links/lynx/elinks family, Debian has a few more terminal browsers.
Edbrowse can let you load the text of a website and then edit it? It also works with geminispace.
Netrik does not appear to work with https: it works fine with plain http.
w3m, with the image extension, can display images inline in the terminal, which looks weird. Without the image extension, I don't notice much difference between w3m any the links family, aside from again a different color scheme.
Overall, I don't see what makes Lynx stand out from all the other terminal browsers. Yet both fedi and Debian users seem to strongly prefer it. What criteria are other fedicreatures using to compare terminal web browsers?
#WebBrowsers #TerminalBrowsers #Lynx #Links #Links2 #Elinks #Netrik #Edbrowse #W3m #geminiprotocol #gopher -
Okay...how do other folks decide between different terminal-based web browsers?
Lynx is the one that gets mentioned the most on fedi. It also has by far the highest popcon on Debian.
It seems Lynx is part of the same family tree as links, links2, and elinks. Trying all of them, I really don't see much difference between Lynx and Links: the only differences I notice are that they use different default colors for text, and links has a smaller file size.
Links2 can run in either graphical or terminal mode. I can't use the graphical mode due to a lack of dark mode. The terminal version of link2 seems identical to links: is there even a difference?
Elinks, when used as a web browser, seems nearly identical to the other three, aside from a different color scheme. Its website claims it supports CSS and JS, but I haven't seen those actually make a difference on a real website. Elinks can also work as a gemini and gopher browser, which is a nice perk.
Outside of the links/lynx/elinks family, Debian has a few more terminal browsers.
Edbrowse can let you load the text of a website and then edit it? It also works with geminispace.
Netrik does not appear to work with https: it works fine with plain http.
w3m, with the image extension, can display images inline in the terminal, which looks weird. Without the image extension, I don't notice much difference between w3m any the links family, aside from again a different color scheme.
Overall, I don't see what makes Lynx stand out from all the other terminal browsers. Yet both fedi and Debian users seem to strongly prefer it. What criteria are other fedicreatures using to compare terminal web browsers?
#WebBrowsers #TerminalBrowsers #Lynx #Links #Links2 #Elinks #Netrik #Edbrowse #W3m #geminiprotocol #gopher -
#ELinks with `-dump-color-mode 2 -colors 1` has colors and numbered links
#links2 with `-html-numbered-links 1` is monochrome, but has numbered links
#Lynx too, but its output looks more messy to me.
#w3m doesn't highlight links and doesn't output link URLs at all.
#Pandoc can't handle table layouts, which unfortunately are still very common in commercial emails.
#HTML2Text (the C++ tool, https://gitlab.com/grobian/html2text) does a decent job and supports bold & underline in `less` and NeoMutt's pager.
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#ELinks with `-dump-color-mode 2 -colors 1` has colors and numbered links
#links2 with `-html-numbered-links 1` is monochrome, but has numbered links
#Lynx too, but its output looks more messy to me.
#w3m doesn't highlight links and doesn't output link URLs at all.
#Pandoc can't handle table layouts, which unfortunately are still very common in commercial emails.
#HTML2Text (the C++ tool, https://gitlab.com/grobian/html2text) does a decent job and supports bold & underline in `less` and NeoMutt's pager.
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@tedu
For some reason I ended up with elinks as my fav txt-browser. Don't know if the same problems occur there.With a server Browsh rules the modern world. Try ssh'ing into brow.sh for a test ride!
