WWW Clients

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This is a page about WWW clients, both manned and unmanned.

BrowserWatch.

Stats and reviews about different browsers.

Specific Browsers

  • Netscape Navigator/Communicator
  • Lynx

    • Netscape Navigator/Communicator

    Netscape HTML Extensions

    Remote control of Netscape Browsers

    This is an interesting concept and has certainly been the subject of some hacks as well as lively conversations dealing with ways to launch URLs from the browser.

    1. Remote Control of Unix Netscape

    Easter Eggs (or controlling the browser with a URL prefix

    about:cache gives details on your cache
about:global - gives details about global history
about:memory-cache
about:image-cache
about:document
about:hype
about:plugins
about:editfilenew

view-source:URL -  opens source window of the URL

    Lynx - a text based browser

    Lynx holds a special place among WWW browsers. It's probably the most widely accepted text-based browser available, is HTML 3.2 compliant and pretty fast. I use it for quicky page checks and to download HTML sources without going through the File Save procedure, plus you can do it from the command line like this:

    lynx -source http://yourhost.dom/file/you/want.html > save_it_here

    Here are some Lynx Links:

    Last modified: Wed Jun 30 20:50:58 EST 1999