A comparison of text-based browsers

I find lynx pretty much unusable with the web these days, because of the way it handles cookies, problems with rendering pages, and because of the difficulty of navigating around which is a shame because it used to be my browser of choice 15 years ago, and the key strokes are wired deep into my reflexes.

w3m works well enough.

Conversely, I use links2 (http://links.twibright.com/) which - for news based sites - is actually MORE usable than a mainstream browser. Say goodbye to adverts, Flash, javascript; and welcome ultra-fast browsing. It works well for night-time viewing (on a black terminal), or for day-to-day stuff running in graphics mode, under X.

Love it!

I hadn't heard of retawq before. I've been using w3m for a while (esp. w3m-emacs), but w3m doesn't have support for concurrently loading/rendering multiple tabs. It looks like retawq is multithreaded.

I've always preferred elinks with its support for colors, but I'll have to check out w3m and retawq.