How To Install Emacs On Windows 10/11 and How to use Text Browser

How to install Emacs on Windows, to get a fast, reliable text browser. 

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

• Emacs is a well-known editor that comes with a little-known 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.

Choose latest installer from version directory

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

Latest as of Jan 14, 2023

♠ emacs-28.2-installer.exe - download and install   

How to get EMACS Web Browser to work

1. Search and run EMACS.  
2. In EMACS, choose Tools -> Browse the Web -> 
   
   
    
3.     Enter your URL or Keywords:
   
   
4. Surf webpage in text only!!!!!

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