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Browsh vs Lynx: catalog facts
Browsh	Lynx
Free The open-source software is available without a license fee. Hosting, hardware and…	Free Free and open source under the GPL.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Uses Firefox to render pages before displaying them as text.	Works on any terminal, including a bare SSH session with no graphics Extremely low bandwidth and resource use
Requires a Firefox backend and does not look like a graphical browser.	No JavaScript, CSS or images, so most modern sites are unusable Keyboard-driven interface with its own conventions to learn
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: LGPL-2.1	License: GPL-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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