Update 2020: Get https://metadataconsulting.blogspot.com/2020/04/How-to-get-a-Text-Browser-for-Windows-7-10-Surf-the-web-in-text-only-no-ads.html
Goal: Surf the web with no ads.
Solution: Get a working Text Browser for Windows;
The Emacs Web Browser (Eww) is a very basic and fast text/image browser. Flash and Javascript are not supported which gets rid of ads. Emacs Web Browser original instructions here, warning very sparse.
Solution: Get a working Text Browser for Windows;
- Emacs which is well supported for all platforms comes with a web browser !
- tried Lynx browser but could not get it to work.
The Emacs Web Browser (Eww) is a very basic and fast text/image browser. Flash and Javascript are not supported which gets rid of ads. Emacs Web Browser original instructions here, warning very sparse.
Emacs Web Browser surfing http://www.google.ca/ |
Source:
Get latest version GNU EMACS 26.0.90 for Windows
http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/
How to get EMACS Web Browser to work
Get latest version GNU EMACS 26.0.90 for Windows
http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/
How to get EMACS Web Browser to work
- Unzip emacs-26.0.90-x86_64-with-deps.zip - Depends library
- Unzip emacs-26.0.90-x86_64.zip - Compiled Emacs editor with browser
- Copy Compiled sub-directories to Depends sub-directories;
bin -> bin
lib -> lib
libexe -> libexe
share -> share - you can say NO to copy overwriting info and man directories. - Run EMACS by clicking runemacs.exe in Depends bin directory
- In EMACS, choose Tools -> Browse the Web -> Enter your URL or Keywords:
- Voila! it works!
Trivia
- EWW, the Emacs Web Wowser, is a web browser package for Emacs.
- Download is huge at 716Mb combined, but running takes a scant 45 Mb of RAM.
- If you just use emacs-26.0.90-x86_64.zip it will complain about not loading LIBXML2.dll.
- You can download that here http://xmlsoft.org/sources/win32/, but then complains about gnutls not being installed, then we are into dependency hell. Hours later....
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