ELinks
ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode Web (HTTP, FTP, etc.) browser. It can render both frames and tables, is highly customizable, and can be extended via Lua, Guile, Perl, or Ruby scripts. It has limited support for CSS and Javascript.
| Tags | Internet Finger FTP Web Browsers Text Processing Filters Markup HTML/XHTML |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | Unix Windows Windows Mac OS X BeOS OS/2 POSIX |
| Implementation | C Other Scripting Engines |
| Translations | Bulgarian Croatian Czech Danish English French German Hungarian Italian Polish Portuguese Slovak Ukrainian |
Recent releases
- 21 Sep 2008 19:39
Changes: This release fixes a critical bug in the SMJS browser scripting module and an assertion failure in the search dialogs on systems lacking the regex.h header file. Also notable are fixes for parsing and updating of the elinks.conf file. Support for libgnutls-openssl has been disabled, as it is not GPLv2 compatible since GnuTLS 2.2.0.
- 20 Jun 2008 23:16
Changes: This release contains mostly bugfixes and translation updates. Among the changes are some critical bugfixes including the fix for CVE-2007-2027.
- 04 Mar 2008 04:56
Changes: This second release candidate mostly brings minor fixes, documentation improvements, and translation updates. The Debian package received a much needed update, and the fixed issues were identified.
- 04 Feb 2008 18:07
Changes: This release fixes a handful of critical bugs and security issues, including CVE-2007-2027, as well as some minor problems.
- 16 Apr 2007 02:17
Changes: This release merges a lot of changes from the unstable branch. It mainly focuses on bugfixes, while it also adds a few enhancements. Among the updates are various security related fixes, so people following the stable branch are advised to update.
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I can download binary files in IE or Firefox by just typing the fully qualified reference in the address bar. I can't figure out how to download binary files with elinks. Can someone help me out?
Thanks in advance.
Re: excellent software
> I do have one suggestion. I think it would be nice
> if textareas invoked an editor, in the same way
> that a mailto link invokes an email client.
You can do that. By default, it is bound to Ctrl-T ...
excellent software
I am very happy with elinks. It is my everyday
browser and I only use FireFox when I need to see
the graphics. I have not found a single thing
wrong with elinks.
I do have one suggestion. I think it would be nice
if textareas invoked an editor, in the same way
that a mailto link invokes an email client.
Thanks for your good work.
Richard Harris
excellent
Great job!
Re: Fabness
> Elinks is really pretty fantastic - my everyday browser.
Thanks :-).
> Couple of complaints though - some documentation for the config file would
> be nice, so I can get zgv working, and ps2txt, and so on.
We work intensively on this, it's getting much betters in these days in fact ;-).
> And secondly - please get the ^Xe external text editor
> function working! I still have go into klunky old Lynx occasionally so I can use vim in text boxes.
Could you elaborate, please? There should be no problem with ^E if you are using standalone ELinks instances. That can be trivially accomplished by starting elinks with -no-connect parameter (see elinks -help for full description of instances) - I agree that it is still very inconvient, though ;-(. A better solution is being prepared, some other things have higher priority now, though.