Blogging with Elinks! : Of course it has it’s minus, but you get the ‘Geeky’ look’
This might seem odd, but yes, there are text based web browsers that are indeed faster, because they strip out all the css and the cool looking design stuffs. If it is content that you are looking for and you need the content fast then go for text based web browsers like elinks and lynx.
Why I started using elinks?
I am a member of the College (NIT Trichy) Webteam, Delta, and was provided with internet access for reading and getting information for the development of facilities in the LAN.
But now, we have been disabled internet access. No, that would be wrong to say.
Let me make it more clear. To access internet we have been provided seperate accounts. We ssh to that account and open firefox and access internet. But now X11 forwarding has been disabled and hence firefox cannot be opened. 
So instead I thought of this!
And yes! it works. Now I am happily surfing around, all thanks to elinks! The only sad part is no images, no design stuff, no css, no videos, just plain yet fast text. It’s all the information you want, with the messy flash, cool css designs stripped off.
So it’s elinks till X11 forwarding is enabled!
Before letting you off try out elinks, let me give a few useful shortcuts. If you want to open a new URL in the same tab, (yes you have tabbed browsing in elinks!) use the shortcut key ‘g’. Pressing the key g when the cursor is not focussing anywhere will open a dialog box asking for URL.
And now for tabbed browsing, use the key ‘t’ which will open a new tab and ask you for the URL to be opened! Cool huh?
And of course to close a tab, use the key ‘c’ and to quit elinks, use ‘q’.
Well that’s pretty much what’s needed if you are directly connected to the Internet.
If behind a proxy you will have to edit the ‘~/.elinks/elinks_config’ file.
More about that in my next post!
