[ehw3]

I believe Lynx does have a vi mode you can enable, though I might be thinking of w3m...

But the killer app for me with web browsers is link hints, like in several browser extensions (e.g. vrome, tridactyl) and in browsers like qutebrowser. It takes a little getting used to at first to use efficiently, but I hate not having it when I use Lynx or w3m.

Slightly apropos, and for what it's worth, I've noticed that 99% of my browsing seems to be or start from maybe 20 or so web sites. I've started creating shell aliases to open those sites and there is no reason not to use the best browser for the site for each one. It works well with a philosophy like seems to be the one behind the surf browser, where you open each thing in its own window and use your window manager to deal with it, instead of using tabs.

[paulryanrogers]

Different browsers for different stuff is why I made a 'router' of sorts for my browsers. Hoping to product-ize it someday, but so many browser quirks! (There are actually many of these switchers but none which try to transparently intercept navigation in browser.)

[leanuser83]

you might like elinks as alternative to lynx, but with link hints.

and those shell aliases sound very similar to surfraw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfraw

[pojntfx]

As someone who uses Elinks/Links a lot, I'd highly recommend switching out Elinks with Links as the former is a now-deprecated fork of the latter [0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELinks#cite_note-2 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(web_browser)#cite_note-...

[profsnuggles]

I'm using felinks https://github.com/rkd77/elinks which recently renamed itself to elinks with the permission of one of the original developers apparently. I can't live without the scripting ability of elinks. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9901932

[Fnoord]

Elinks contains a SpiderMonkey fork which is unpatched and contains known vulnerabilities.

Quite interesting to read Assange wrote Surfraw in 2000.