ELinks

ELinks

Developer(s)	Petr Baudiš, Jonas Fonseca
Stable release	0.11.7^[1] (22 August 2009 (2009-08-22)) [±]
Preview release	0.12pre6^[2] (30 October 2012 (2012-10-30)) [±]
Written in	C
Operating system	Linux, Unix
Available in	English, Polish, Danish, French, Serbian, Hungarian, Czech, German
Type	Web browser
License	GPLv2
Website	www.elinks.cz (elinks.or.cz)

ELinks is a free text-based console web browser for Unix-like operating systems.

It began in late 2001 as an Experimental fork by Petr Baudiš of the Links Web browser, hence the name. Since then, the "E" has come to stand for Enhanced or Extended,^[3] and on 1 September 2004, Petr Baudiš handed maintainership of the project over to Danish developer Jonas Fonseca, citing a lack of time and interest and a desire to spend more time coding rather than reviewing and organising releases.^[4]

Features

HTTP and Proxy authentication
Persistent HTTP cookies
Support for browser scripting in Perl, Ruby, Lua and GNU Guile^[5]
Tabs (though still text mode)^[5]
HTML tables and HTML frames^[5]
Background download with queueing
Some support for Cascading Style Sheets^[5]
Some support for ECMAScript by using Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine^[5]
Editing of text boxes in external text editor
Mouse support
Colour text display
Protocols supported:
- local files, finger, http, https, ftp, fsp, smb, IPv4, IPv6
- experimentally: BitTorrent, gopher,^[4] nntp

References

↑ "ELinks - Full-Featured Text WWW Browser". elinks.or.cz. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
↑ "ELinks - Full-Featured Text WWW Browser". elinks.or.cz. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
↑ "ELinks history page". Retrieved 14 December 2010.
1 2 Fonseca, Jonas (24 December 2004). "elinks-users ANNOUNCE ELinks-0.10.0 (Thelma)". Linux From Scratch. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
1 2 3 4 5 Bolso, Erik Inge (8 March 2005). "2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup". Linux Journal. Retrieved 5 August 2010.

External links

Official website
Baudis, Petr (2001-10-28). "[ANNOUNCE] Experimental Links Tree". elinks (Mailing list).
Thomas Adam's ELinks page

Gopher

Active clients

Free/open source	Arachne Classilla Conkeror ELinks Gnuzilla K-Meleon Kazehakase Line Mode Browser Lynx Mothra W3m

Proprietary	OmniWeb Sleipnir

Discontinued clients

Previously supported

Server software

Persons

Mark P. McCahill

See also

Web browsers

Features	Ad filtering Augmented browsing Bookmarks Bookmarklet Live bookmark Smart Bookmarks Browser extension Browser security Browser synchronizer comparison Cookies Download manager Favicon Incremental search Plug-in Privacy mode Tabs Universal Edit Button

Web standards	Acid tests Cascading Style Sheets HTML HTML5 JavaScript MathML OCSP SVG WebGL XHTML

Related topics	BrowserChoice.eu CRL HTTP HTTPS iLoo Internet suite Man-in-the-browser Mobile Web Offline reader PAC Pwn2Own Rich Internet application Site-specific browser SPDY SSL/TLS WebSocket Widget World Wide Web WPAD XML

Desktop

Blink-based	Chromium Chrome Dragon Opera Slimjet SRWare Iron UC Browser Vivaldi Yandex.Browser Sputnik

WebKit-based	Arora Avant Dooble Epic Flock Fluid iCab Konqueror Lunascape Maxthon Midori OmniWeb Origyn Web Browser QtWeb QupZilla rekonq Safari Shiira Sleipnir SlimBoat surf Torch Uzbl Web WebPositive xombrero

Trident-based	AOL Explorer Avant Deepnet Explorer GreenBrowser Internet Explorer Lunascape Maxthon MediaBrowser MenuBox NeoPlanet NetCaptor SlimBrowser SpaceTime UltraBrowser WebbIE ZAC Browser

Gecko-based	AT&T Pogo Avant Camino Firefox Conkeror GNU IceCat IceDragon Swiftfox Swiftweasel TenFourFox Timberwolf Tor Browser Waterfox xB Browser Galeon Ghostzilla K-Meleon Kazehakase Kirix Strata Lotus Symphony Lunascape Mozilla Beonex Communicator Classilla Netscape SeaMonkey

Text-based	ELinks Emacs/W3 Line Mode Browser Links Lynx Net-Tamer w3m

Other	abaco Amaya Arachne Arena Charon Dillo Gazelle IBM Home Page Reader IBrowse KidZui Microsoft Edge Mosaic Mothra NetPositive NetSurf Pale Moon

Mobile

WebKit-based	Android Browser BOLT Chrome Dolphin Browser Nintendo 3DS Internet Browser Maxthon Mercury Browser Nokia Browser for Symbian Opera Mobile Rockmelt Safari Silk Steel

Gecko-based	Firefox for mobile MicroB Minimo

Presto-based	Nintendo DS & DSi Browser Opera Mini

Other	Blazer CM Browser Deepfish Galio ibisBrowser Internet Explorer Mobile Iris Browser Konqueror Embedded Microsoft Edge NetFront Nokia Xpress Obigo Browser Skweezer Skyfire Teashark ThunderHawk UC Browser Vision WinWAP

Television and video game console

WebKit-based	Google TV NetFront Steam Overlay Wii U Internet Browser

Gecko-based	Kylo

Presto-based	Internet Channel

Blink-based	Android TV Amazon Fire TV

Other	Galio MSN TV

Software no longer in development shown in italics

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