ELinks

ELinks is an enhanced version of Links, a Lynx-like text Web browser with support for tables, frames, background downloads, SSL etc. It has a menu-fashioned user interface and is smaller and more lightweight than Lynx. ELinks adds many valuable features, like HTTP and proxy authentication, reasonable cookies support, Lua scripting, downloads resuming, very high configurability and more. ELinks has built-in support for HTTP, FTP, finger and local files; users can define their own external handlers for any other protocols.

Last updated 24 Aug, 2009


User level: Beginner

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Requirements
  • <pre> GPM (for mouse support) (Weak Prerequisite)
  • X11 (for setting x terminal emulator title) (Weak Prerequisite)
  • Lua (Weak Prerequisite)
  • Guile (Weak Prerequisite)
  • Perl (Weak Prerequisite)
  • Python (Weak Prerequisite)
  • Ruby (makes it possible to write plugins) (Weak Prerequisite)
  • zlib (for handling compressed documents both locally or from server) (Weak Prerequisite)
  • bzlib (for handling local compressed documents) (Weak Prerequisite)
  • OpenSSL (Weak Prerequisite)
  • GNU TLS (for handling HTTPS browsing) (Weak Prerequisite)
  • expat (needed for XBEL bookmarksupport) (Weak Prerequisite)
  • SpiderMonkey (ECMAScript support) </pre> (Weak Prerequisite)
Related Projects

Links, Lynx, netrik, w3m

Versions

0.11.7
0.11.6
0.11.5
0.11.3

0.11.3 stable released 2007-04-15

User Community and Support

User manpage available in HTML format from http://elinks.cz/documentation/manpages/elinks.1.html

General Resources
Announcement Resources
Support Resources

Development

Developer Resources
  • VCS Checkout Command: git http://repo.or.cz/w/elinks.git
  • Homepage
  • E-mail
  • Newsgroup
  • irc://irc.freenode.net/#ELinks
Bug Tracking Resources
 

Please send comments on these web pages to bug-directory@fsf.org, send other questions to info@fsf.org.

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