w3m rocks

Set dedicated to the finer parts of W3M, an commence-supply terminal web browser (and pager) available for any Unix-love OS.

While historically regarded as a ‘backup’ recourse for looking out straightforward pages in a non-graphical environment, I expend it as a essential browser on all workstations (Linux laptops and Android Tablets internal Termux).

A handful of key parts

• All HTML entities rendered via ASCII and Unicode
• No JavaScript
• No CSS; appropriate total HTML 4.0 rendering, including tables
• No photos (without terminal hacks). Photos viewable externally via keystroke.
• Uniform, total 8-color palette.
• Supports buffers and tabs for switching between loaded pages.
• Interact entirely via customizable keystrokes and even macros (also has mouse enhance)
• Mix seamlessly along with your terminal editor (ie VIM/Emacs)
• Navigation/scrolling/looking out practically instantaneous across loaded instruct material. No visible delay inherent to graphical browsers.
• Bid and without downside navigate across marks within a page
• To hand as an E-Reader

Deserves

Notion instruct material without in fashion web bloat

• No pop-up adverts (no JavaScript to render them)
• No distracting photos (without hacks in definite terminals)
• Emulate the frail, minimalist web.
• Reclaim emotional vitality and time.
• Emphasize the accurate, pertinent websites

Preserve eyesight

• No overwhelming styles or colors (or adverts or flashy pop-ups)
• One configurable color draw for all pages (ie light textual instruct material on a glum background), without external plugins or situation customizations

Extremely light-weight

• No CPU or GPU stress for graphical rendering or JavaScript calls
• Minute memory footprint dedicated predominantly to textual instruct material.
• Lighter network traffic. Again, handiest textual instruct material instruct material to house.

Prevails over any graphical browser in efficiency.

• Cycle between loaded pages instantaneously. No split-2nd (or longer) delay to refresh graphical frame-buffers.
• Efficiency merits on both ragged and in fashion hardware. (I’ve outmoded on Android pills (within Termux), Arch Linux and Debian laptops, the $5 Raspberry PI Zero and VPSs)

Where to commence

See the howto page.

For added reference,

• Official W3M handbook
• Official FAQ
• W3M history