elinks
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Nov 5, 2025first mention
Jul 23, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“initially lynx but I quickly switched to links/elinks”
“I used elinks once to find a solution to an issue where the login screen was broken after an upgrade”
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“ELinks is the TUI browser I've used since .... forever.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Also written as ELinks. Data: elinks.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“elinks -dump -no-references -dump-width 79”
“I used to mostly use Dillo and elinks”
“initially lynx but I quickly switched to links/elinks”
“I used elinks once to find a solution to an issue where the login screen was broken after an upgrade”
“Terminal emulators and lynx/elinks/links/w3c work, too.”
“ELinks is the TUI browser I've used since .... forever.”