Posting using Lynx (the browser, not the site scheme)

[afuna]

Interesting. It is very very clean.

(I keep accidentally losing data when I accidentally visit a link, though. How do you go back?)

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[snakeling]

If you find out, let me know :D

[afuna]

Don't think I can recover my data, but hitting the "delete" key shows me my visited history, so that works :D

[soph.livejournal.com]

To go back, you hit the left arrow key on a non-textbox thingy.

Oh, and if you click a link and want to cancel the load, press Z.

[afuna]

Yay! I knew you'd pull through :DD

I've hit the left arrow key before, but I didn't notice it do anything. I think I was confused. I'll have to experiment more with it.

And thank you so much for explaining the z part! I was hitting escape, which did nothing, and it frustrated me so much.

[ivles.livejournal.com]

LOL, you finally found the magic of lynx. At my first year at university, the internet was so slow, we end up using telnet or putty to check emails, IRC-ing, and lynx-ing to browse the WWW. XDDD

I second ciaran_h, use the left arrow button under the group of middle buttons (insert, print screen, home, end and 5 other buttons)

[afuna]

I did! XD I've known about it for a while, but I just never really started using it until now.

I don't know why, but it fascinates me. It's so clean and neat. No images, just text. No clutter! (Well maybe a bit of clutter, but...)

[ivles.livejournal.com]

Did you read somewhere about the April Fool's joke with lynx being Google Browser?

It's super fast! --> that was the tagline.

I still use it from time to time, to test on my websites and if the visual browsers failed to connect.

[afuna]

Hee! No I didn't!

Hmmm, now I wonder. Just how much faster would certain sites be if I visited them using lynx instead of firefox? I shall have to experiment and see, ohoho.

[ivles.livejournal.com]

It's super fast, since it only loads text. :D
However for sites with sidebar first-content later, it's a bit annoying since you have to Ctrl+V (Page Down) a couple of times.

[afuna]

Good point. And thanks for the tip with page down as well XD

[ripps818.livejournal.com]

Lynx? The command-line browser?
I only use that when I get Xorg working in my Linux OS.

[afuna]

Yes! I haven't used it that much, but I can see it being useful for when I'm in a certain mood.