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Links vs Carboxyl: catalog facts
Links	Carboxyl
Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…	Free Free and open source under the BSD-3-Clause licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux	macOS, Linux, Command line
It renders tables and frames in text mode, and the graphics mode draws images without needing X, which…	Renders modern sites with JavaScript, WebGL and video in a terminal Works over SSH and without a graphical desktop
There is no JavaScript engine, so most modern sites either fail or degrade to unusable.	Fullscreen mode is not supported yet On Linux without Docker it needs the same dependencies as Chromium
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0	License: BSD-3-Clause
Not stated if an account is needed	No account 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 October 2, 2026

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