W3M Browser

The news (old news), say that this awesome web browser was discontinued as a development project. Very old project indeed. As I like to call it, Shell User Interface, the w3m is a web explorer and it is one of the best terminal text only web browser that I love, with Image compatibility.

Using Vim keys, the j and the k are often used, like the Shift+g and the gg too, to navigate the web page. To open new links on a new Tab, you type Shift+t which will open a new tab within the same page you have in the older tab, and then you hit enter to enter the new site that is in the new tab. Use { and } to change tabs. You may wish to go back to an previous page that you didn't open in a new tab, using Shift+b. Check w3m options using o of 'Options' to change the default options that w3m gives you.

Not only for SysAdmins that don't wish to spend too much resources on their machines, without installing a web browser like Firefox or Chromium that ask you to run the X server on your machine.

The web is mainly made of text and when I surf the web I expect to find text. Images are useful to see diagrams form example, even if w3m have compatibility with images. Without JavaScript compatibility if websites require JavaScript, you will not be able to see the site. For example GitHub.com/* not even render.

For the specific case of GitHub we can use the gh package and install some useful plugins to explore GitHub.com within the Shell. The same happen to GitLab as they have their own GitLab-Cli to explore it without opening the Browser.