How to get a Text Browser for Windows 7,10 - Surf the web in text only, no ads

Now that you have extra time to co-read, read fast with a text browser. 

Get a super fast Text Browser for Windows 7,10 +:

• Emacs is a well know editor that comes with little know built-in browser 
• Emacs is superbly supported on all platforms, a staple on UNIX since 1976!

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.

Nov 11, 2022 : Update source, use the installer. 

emacs-28.2-installer.exe - download and use installer!   

from  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-28/emacs-28.2-installer.exe

Older Sources without an installer:

Get latest version GNU EMACS 26.3 (30-Aug-2019) for Windows:

http://mirror.rit.edu/gnu/emacs/windows/

Choose latest:
http://mirror.rit.edu/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-26/emacs-26.3-x86_64.zip

How to get EMACS Web Browser to work

1. Unzip emacs-26.3-x86_64.zip  - Compiled Emacs editor with browser
2. Run EMACS by clicking runemacs.exe in Depends bin directory
3. In EMACS, choose Tools -> Browse the Web -> 
   
   
    
4.     Enter your URL or Keywords:
   
   
5. Voila! it works!

Notes:

1. EWW, the Emacs Web Wowser, is a web browser package for Emacs. See full details here.
2. Unzipped emacs takes is 758 Mbs, but running takes a scant ~100 Mb of RAM. Unlike Google Chrome taking now a whopping 1.2Gb of RAM now, but equivalent to 1 active chrome instance.
3. Considered Lynx browser, but builds are never up to date.
4. To list cookies, Choose Eww -> List cookies

My other Emacs articles of interest: 

How to remove cookies

https://metadataconsulting.blogspot.com/2020/07/How-to-clear-cookies-from-Emacs.html

Open page from command line

Emacs - How to open a web page URL from the command line

Set font size 

How to setup font size for GNU Emacs for Windows