Lynx

A text-based web browser.

Lynx is a text-based web browser that has been in continuous development since 1992. It renders HTML as a sequence of text paragraphs, with hyperlinks numbered or highlighted; you navigate links with arrow keys and follow them with Enter. CSS is largely ignored, JavaScript is not run.

Lou Montulli wrote the original Lynx at the University of Kansas in 1992, before going on to be one of the founding engineers at Netscape. Thomas Dickey took over maintenance in 1997 and has continued in that role since.

Lynx remains useful for accessibility (the text-only output is straightforward for screen readers), screen-reader-style testing of web pages, server administration (no graphical desktop required), reading the web over very slow connections, and as a reminder of what HTML used to look like before JavaScript-driven web design became dominant. It is preinstalled on many distributions and packaged in the others.

License: GPL-2.0-only

Category: Browser

Website: https://lynx.invisible-island.net/

Install

Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt install lynx
Fedora/RHEL:   sudo dnf install lynx
Arch:          sudo pacman -S lynx
macOS:         brew install lynx

Authors

Lou Montulli (original author)
Thomas Dickey (current maintainer)

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