in a way it's kind of pitiful
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| tuxchick Apr 24, 2008 8:53 AM EDT |
I like Links and Elinks- they're great when I'm in a hurry, and they're immune to ads and pop-ups and that new extreme annoyance, the Intel ads that pop up on a mouseover. How evil is that? Combine that with the stupid double-underlined words that do popups too, it's getting so I don't even want to look at most Web sites because they're full of booby-traps. Most folks are visual, and absorb information better when it's nicely-formatted, and when it uses colors and images. Unfortunately, like so many good things, the graphical Web has been perverted (by design) and ruined (by incompetence). 24 years after the release of Netscape 1.0 the Web is shoddier than ever. Now that's progress! |
| bigg Apr 24, 2008 9:39 AM EDT |
When I'm on an older machine, the only "real" browser I can use is Opera. Everything else is just too heavy. If I want to check the news, why the heck is my browser eating up 90 MB of RAM? I've really come to like the links gui browser. Works great and it's easy to read because I never have to worry about weird, particularly small, fonts. |
| Steven_Rosenber Apr 24, 2008 1:02 PM EDT |
Dillo! |
| techiem2 Apr 24, 2008 1:27 PM EDT |
hehe. I use links to login to our wireless authentication system at work every day.
fire up laptop (no X starting by default of course), login as root and wait for wireless to connect (can take a few min as wpa_supplicant seems to like trying to connect to the APs using A before it tries G), fire up links to login (faster and less annoying than loading the auth page in a gui browser and the closing the silly popup).
Now if I could just figure out how to save the actual full url that's posted from the login form...then maybe I could just write a script to hit it instead of having to login manually...mwahaha. |
| tracyanne Apr 24, 2008 3:01 PM EDT |
Carla I just install Adblock, NoScript and FlashBlock, I am rarely bothered by such ads. |
| techiem2 Apr 24, 2008 3:13 PM EDT |
Yeah, the web is soo much friendlier with those extensions running. I also use Cookie Monster and have cookies denied by default so I don't get tracked everywhere by everyone... |
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