Alternatives to edbrowse
A line-oriented command-line text editor that also works as a web browser with JavaScript support. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
edbrowse
A line-oriented command-line text editor that also works as a web browser with JavaScript support.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as edbrowse.
Lynx
Text-mode web browser for terminals and remote systems.
Lynx is a text-mode terminal browser with a full-screen keyboard interface instead of line commands, runs on Windows and macOS too, but has no JavaScript support.
w3m
A text-based web browser and pager that runs in the terminal.
w3m displays pages as full-screen text in the terminal and also works as a pager, but it drops the JavaScript support and built-in text editing of edbrowse.
Chawan
A terminal web browser with its own engine supporting CSS, JavaScript and inline images.
Chawan keeps JavaScript support in the terminal and adds CSS and inline images with a screen-based display, but building it from source needs the Nim compiler.
ELinks
A text-mode web browser for the terminal, maintained as an actively developed fork.
ELinks is a maintained text-mode terminal browser suited to SSH sessions and headless servers, offering screen-based navigation instead of line-oriented editing commands.
Links
Small browser that runs either as text in a terminal or in a basic graphics mode.
Links offers a text mode and a basic graphics mode on Windows, macOS and Linux, but it has no JavaScript engine and no editor functions.
Browsh
Browse modern web pages through a terminal interface.
Browsh displays modern pages as text in the terminal using a Firefox backend, handling current sites better but requiring Firefox and giving up the line editor.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Offpunk
An offline-first command-line browser and feed reader for Gemini, Gopher, Spartan and the web.
