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NetSurf: A Graphical Web Browser for Command Line (+ CSS 2.0 Support)

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 18, 2010

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“To be honest, Modern web pages ain’t look pretty in
CLI web browsers. Up until yesterday, the most kick-ass web
browsing experience I had in Console was w3m with image viewing
enabled. I was under the impression that this is best that CLI web
browsers could do. However, all that changed when I stumbled upon
NetSurf; a venerable independent web browser that has been around
for nearly a decade and is available for many Platforms such as
RISC OS, Amiga, BeOS, and UNIX-like systems (For both GTK and
Framebuffer front-ends). Below is a screenshot of NetSurf
FrameBuffer front-end in Debian on my Asus EeePC:”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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