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Comment by mirimir | Hacker News Reader

I have an off-topic observation ...

So I happen to be working in an old VM, and it has an old version of Firefox. And yes, I know that I ought to migrate. Anyway, this old Firefox just won't load some sites, including The New Yorker. But there's a simple workaround:

   user@host:~$ w3m -dump https://www.foo.bar/baz/ | less

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I hate to be rude but: No one cares. How is your very specific linux/firefox setup any relevant to this conversation.... ?

It is so common/cliche for the first comment to be: it wont load, too slow, i hate the fonts, etc.. etc...

It doesn't add anything relevant to the convo/topic.

Whoa, that's uncalled for.

Send me some bitcoin and I'll double it.

YMMV, but w3m is a very useful tool.

Also, given your comment history, it's disingenuous to say that you "hate to be rude".

Interesting, I didn’t know about that command. Thanks for sharing.

Wtf ? Just upgrade

It's an old #! VM, so upgrading would break too many things.

Also, I haven't made time to settle on which flavor of which Linux distro to switch to. Any suggestions, for someone who loved #!'s OpenBox desktop?

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