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To: Cboldt

You said: “I (mostly) use a text-only browser”

You are not alone. I still use Lynx to view Drudge. Got tired of all the scripts and garbage. Works pretty well. Not modern software, but very fast.


51 posted on 10/02/2015 5:45:40 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil
-- You are not alone. I still use Lynx to view Drudge. --

I use lynx for about 90% of my browsing. Firefox for sites that depend on javascript or otherwise reject connecting with lynx. I've spoofed the "User Agent" field so sites think I'm using Firefox when I'm really using lynx, but that won't get around the javascript.

I prefer the text-only presentation. It's fast in a few ways. Websites load quicker, rendering is more or less instant, and reading is smoother without the distraction of odd paragraph layout.

I have a pseudo-tab arrangement for lynx too. I open four instances of lynx under one invocation of screen, and switch between the lynx instances with "Alt-number."

Almost a Luddite ;-)

52 posted on 10/02/2015 6:00:14 AM PDT by Cboldt
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