Hej Donnie!

google has officially dropped support for text browsers, such as lynx. As for me, duckduckgo is the new default, including a gui browser such as firefox which happens to be the only such browser here.

As the subject implies, I won't be shedding a tear.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

o- -o -o -o -o -o o- -o -o -o o- o- o- -o -o o- /) (\ (\ (\ (\ (\ /) (\ (\ (\ /) /) /) (\ (\ /) ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ... Æfter leofan menn langað swiðost.
People long most for a loved one.
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google has officially dropped support for text browsers, such as lynx. As for

Hmm, well that is some BS. On an older machine, I am using links2 with a search called frogfind. It will (usually) translate pages into plain text
but there are some that it cannot render.

Mike


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Hej Mike!

Hmm, well that is some BS.

As google now says, "Your browser isn't supported anymore. To continue your search, upgrade to a recent version." I don't mind upgrading but in this case it isn't going to happen no matter what google thinks.

I am using links2 with a search called frogfind.

<Esc>:read !links -version
Links 2.30

That looks okay. Always nice to have choices such as;

<Esc>:read !lynx -version
Lynx Version 2.9.2 (31 May 2024)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, GNUTLS 3.8.10, ncurses 6.5.20250809(wide)
Built on linux-gnu (Sep 7 2025 02:40:40).

Copyrights held by the Lynx Developers Group,
the University of Kansas, CERN, and other contributors.
Distributed under the GNU General Public License (Version 2).
See https://lynx.invisible-island.net/ and the online help for more information.

Also lynx can handle gopher connections which links cannot. However I still prefer links for straight text browsing.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

-o o- o- -o -o o- -o -o o- -o -o o- -o -o o- o-
(\ /) /) (\ (\ /) (\ (\ /) (\ (\ /) (\ (\ /) /)
^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ... Eall þæt mon untidlice onginþ, næfþ hit no æltæþne ende.
Anything begun at the wrong time will never have a good end.
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Also lynx can handle gopher connections which links cannot. However I still prefer links for straight text browsing.

Thanks for the tip, I don't think I was aware that lynx could do gopher.

Mike


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Hej Mike!

Thanks for the tip, I don't think I was aware that lynx could do gopher.

According to './configure --help';

Other Network Services:
--disable-finger disable FINGER logic
--disable-gopher disable GOPHER logic
--disable-news disable NEWS logic
--disable-ftp disable FTP logic
--enable-wais enable WAIS logic

It looks like it is enabled by default, along with finger, news and ftp protocols. I use lynx mostly for converting html to text and in that case 'lynx -help' will give you all the gory details in order to create an excellent commandline and/or shell scripted html2text function. I can see the gopher capabilties being attractive for a minimalized, low bandwidth app on a smartphone to a properly configured gopher server tasked to provide such a desirable connection.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

o- -o -o -o o- -o -o o- o- -o -o -o -o o- o- -o /) (\ (\ (\ /) (\ (\ /) /) (\ (\ (\ (\ /) /) (\ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ... A sceal snotor hycgean ymb þysse worulde gewinn.
A wise person should always be thinking about this world's strife.
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