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For questions about the ELinks text-mode web browser.

ELinks is an open source, text-mode web browser for Unix-like operating systems.

Although the project continues to have developer activity though 2017, the most recent 'Stable' release is dated from 2009 and OpenBSD has removed ELinks from its ports tree, citing concerns with security issues and lack of responsiveness from the developers.

ELinks claims JavaScript support but may require some modernization to be compatible with Mozilla's SpiderMonkey library.

As of 2018, ELinks from the Git repository builds successfully against up-to-date OpenSSL.

Home page: http://elinks.or.cz/
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELinks

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Mutt using elinks to color html and external pager dilemma

These days more and more HTML emails are being unsed. Unfortunately making mutt render html in color via elinks works only partially due to the fact that the internal pager of mutt overwrites the color codes coming from the external tool. To…
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Is it possible to get past Google's "Our systems have detected unusual traffic" page in a text-only browser?

I like using a text-only browser (elinks) to do basic web-browsing. Unfortunately, I recently keep getting Google's "Our systems have detected unusual traffic" page, which offers a CAPTCHA to let me continue, which of course I can't view. Is there…
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How to install elinks on Windows Vista?

I am using bash-3.2 shell through cygwin to try to install elinks browser on my system. I am following this documentation to install. I am executing the following command: ./configure && make && make install The setup fails saying: error: C…
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Building elinks with JavaScript support

The elinks manual says if the SpiderMonkey library is installed then the configure script "should" recognize it and enable JavaScript support. But, it's not working for me so far. Setup I've got the latest elinks (2018-03-02) from git cloned under…
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How to download a file as executable via elinks in linux

I'd like to download a file as executable through elinks command line in linux. How to do it? by default, saved file is not executable (rw/r/r).
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Elinks and flash

is there a possibility to "use" flash based objects with elinks ? I mean, i have an online flash based multiplayer game ( http://haxball.appspot.com ) and i want to connect to game with elinks installed on my shell server to create an always-present…
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Html links in dumped formatted output from links 2.21 browser

Links 2.21 is a fantastic text based browser which is able to output formatted text from URL's. links -dump "https://example.com/page.html" > output.txt As is, output.txt contains all links as text only, so for example if there is a link in the…
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Links Browser via Tor

Is it possible to force the Links text browser to use Tor? Links itself contains only socks4a proxy options, which is no good for Tor current. Specifying Privoxy, with Privoxy forwarding to Tor, using http/s proxy Links options doesn't work.…
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How to reinitialize a CLI application between some interval (Like reinitiate elinks between some interval in the same terminal window)?

I am using Elinks for specific page where I have to reload the page between every one minute. To reload it I have to press Ctrl+R shortcut to work it out. Can I automate this procedure? I tried to change the elink.conf file with the following line…
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Why wont elinks save anything?

I have an Ubuntu pure terminal system (no GUI, just boots into terminal). But each time I close Elinks and go back, it does not save the history, bookmarks, or any personal settings! Please tell me why it does this and how to fix it. (This is also…
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