ELinks

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ELinks
Elinks-screenshot-of-elinks-page.png
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Developer(s)Petr Baudiš, Jonas Fonseca
Stable release
0.11.7[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 22 August 2009
Preview release
0.12pre6[2] Edit this on Wikidata / 30 October 2012
Repository
Written inC
Operating systemLinux, Unix
Available inEnglish, Polish, Danish, French, Serbian, Hungarian, Czech, German
TypeText-based web browser
LicenseGPL-2.0-only
Websitewww.elinks.cz (elinks.or.cz)

ELinks is a free text-based 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 E in the name. Since then, the E has come to stand for Enhanced or Extended.[3] On 1 September 2004, 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]

On 17 March 2017, OpenBSD removed ELinks from its ports tree, citing concerns with security issues and lack of responsiveness from the developers.[5]

On 17 November 2017, ELinks was forked into another program called felinks meaning forked elinks.[6] It is being actively maintained with the latest version at 0.14.3 dated 26 September 2021.[7]

Features[]

  • HTTP and Proxy authentication
  • Persistent HTTP cookies
  • Support for browser scripting in Perl, Ruby, Lua and GNU Guile[8]
  • Tabs (though still text mode)[8]
  • HTML tables and HTML frames[8]
  • Background download with queueing
  • Some support for Cascading Style Sheets[8]
  • Some support for ECMAScript by using Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine[8]
  • Editing of text boxes in external text editor
  • Mouse support (including wheel scroll)
  • Colour text display
  • Protocols supported:

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "News". Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  2. ^ http://elinks.or.cz/; retrieved: 9 January 2018.
  3. ^ "ELinks history page". Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  4. ^ a b Fonseca, Jonas (24 December 2004). "[elinks-users] [ANNOUNCE] ELinks-0.10.0 (Thelma)". Linux From Scratch. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  5. ^ Barrett, Edd (17 March 2017). "Remove www/elinks from the ports tree".
  6. ^ "felinks".
  7. ^ "v0.14.3".
  8. ^ a b c d e Bolso, Erik Inge (8 March 2005). "2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup". Linux Journal. Retrieved 5 August 2010.

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