Is there a Web browser that, like Lynx, doesn't need XFree86 and that is, like Dillo, light and that uses only the Framebuffer ?

I need a browser without installing X, able to use the POST method of a formulaire (unlike lynx) and able to use pictures...

Is that dream existing ?

Thx in adv.

w3m can show graphics in an xterm so i would have thought it could do the same in a framebuffer console but im not sure, i did read somewhere about a framebuffer webbrowser and a quick google for "framebuffer webbrowser" and a few links gave me

http://www.nocrew.org/software/zen/

i doesnt look like its very active anymore but i might be wrong.

Links2 can. It was pretty nice. I'm going to try it out again on a few older boxes.

I did have a very interesting result with one box, though. Everytime it would close, my box would hard lockup... It didn't matter if I killed the processes, exited nicely, or ctrl+c'ed out.

Thanks all !

Ok, I already tried zen and that's not probative...
It is not active at all...

I will try links (didn't heard about it), it seems to be intersting...
But I can't find anything about cbi scripts support. Javascript is OK, but CGIs ?

Links is very intersting, almost light and efficiant.

I think I will use it !

Thank you !!!

if you configure it right when you bild it you can have java script and graphics it dosent work that well with cookies but it can be used with forums that depend on cookies
do run configure --help or configure -help and get a look at the settings
best of all it is fast and at 3Meg it's the smallest graphic web browser I have ever seen
and it can work with frame buffer,svgalib and X11 but for FB and svgalibe it is best started
with a script

links -g -mode 640x480x256

will run links from console in 640 x 480 in 256 colours.

yes that's how its started but man is that alot to rember and type I'm lazy so I put that in a script or alais call it something like links1

My question didn't had an answer, can Links use the CGI scripts ?
Thx

I have my answer, shame on me, that is not links that uses CGI but Apache...
Well, can I find a documentation for this browser ?
I would like to change the color of the buttons in forms, there are black, and my background is blue, not very good to see :P

Apache is a webserver, not a browser.

Try a google search for "apache howto" or "apache tutorial"

BTW, I am using links2. Pretty neat, but I am having trouble getting the mouse to work correctly so I can paste easier.

I tried it last year on a 486 dx2 66 with 5.5 mb of ram ( 2 modules of 4 mb, one broken )

Dillo, even if under X, was a lot faster.

With this i don't want to say that links2 is bad, and in fact on my main pc i use it very often ( my opinion is that it's very good too ).

This applies to my Gentoo build on a Celeron 850 box, tinwhistle.

I have an old 8 mb Riva video card in it and I put this in my ~./.bashrc file:It's great and I love it, except for a couple of things. It messes up gpm in straight framebuffer virtual consoles, so I have to stop gpm. Restarting gpm even after exiting links2 and it still acts crazy. I can't figure out how to copy and paste using it. Perhaps it's just too new and bleeding edge to have all I want, but it is impressive in it's browsing speed.

Launch links2 -g and the resulting output should give some hints as to what size/color depth you can use.