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I'm looking for one that is frequently updated and full-featured.

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  • Per FAQ, avoid questions underlying subjective answers. Commented Jun 10, 2012 at 20:55
  • Produced in 1992, stable (Libwww) since 1997 and updated all years including 2016, 2017... lynx, reliable, most cited... the best. Commented Aug 23, 2017 at 20:51
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    there is also new browser browsh that renders images and process JavaScript. Commented Sep 10, 2018 at 8:26
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    I prefer Browsh brow.sh Commented Sep 15, 2018 at 10:00
  • // , Would you be willing to post this in softwarerecs.stackexchange.com ? It looks like no one has asked this yet: softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/… Commented Oct 22, 2018 at 19:51

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There are many text web browsers, as there are many graphical web browsers, so it really depends on what you're looking for. lynx is a common slim choice, Elinks has many features. Both of these support other protocols, such as ftp and gopher (Elinks even supports bittorrent). Elinks may also be built with support for JavaScript, using Mozilla's former JavaScript implementation, Spidermonkey.

There is also w3m, which can also be used through Emacs.

If you want to try one at random, Wikipedia has a list of text based browsers.

How to install these has more to do with how your distribution manages packages than with the browsers themselves. Some of them are probably in the package repositories for your distribution.

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As of November 2015, the actively maintained browsers are links and lynx. Many of the changes in both relate to TLS and security. Here is the current state of progress:

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  • I did not find your first line clear, so edited it, trying to improve it. Please verify. Commented Jun 10, 2012 at 20:44
  • Elinks had an unstable release shortly after this post was made. Unfortunately for me, that was three years ago! Links seems to have had an update in December 2014, and lynx had a development release in March 2014. My favorite of the three, w3m, is still without any type of release for four years. Commented Mar 20, 2015 at 0:30
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    I tried lynx, w3m and elinks. My vote is for elinks. Commented Jul 9, 2015 at 13:16
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    Well, I am currently running w3m/0.5.3+git2016041. Which has a notably fix for 32-bit true color images support which makes it work better in vte based terminals for instance. Commented Jun 28, 2016 at 4:47
  • @AlMehdi Where did you get this version from? Commented Mar 8, 2017 at 7:51
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I like links2, but primarily because it has a cool, lightweight 'graphical' mode. It's similar to just plain 'links', but you can invoke it with -g to get a display that renders images. It's very easily X-forwardable, too. But, when you don't want the HTML image rendering, it works just fine in the native ncurses interface as well.

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  • Links and Links2 are (at least on Debian) the same program. The difference is that Links was compiled without support for graphical mode. Commented May 30, 2018 at 15:56

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