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elinks is a text based web-browser

elinks a text browser for the command line users .

we can access the web-pages from terminal with simply 

elinks <URL>

you can install it in Ubuntu with 

sudo apt-get install elinks

you can find more information here : ELinks

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How do I restrict access to certain web sites?

I have installed elinks and squid and I need to restrict access to yahoo.com(including subdomains. for example, fr.yahoo.com). How do I permanently configure elinks(or squid) to forbid access to yahoo.com?
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How do I periodically reload a web page in a Terminal web browser?

How do I schedule the reloading of a page when using a terminal browser? using any of: Elinks, w3m etc
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Restricting access to sites

I'm having some problems configuring my local proxy server so that it would restrict access to certain websites. The proxy server I'm using is Squid; I edited its configuration file found in /etc/squid/squid.conf to include the following: acl…
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How to extract a table from links dump?

The following is a links -dump of which I want to extract the table with all the columns in all the file... I tried using awk but failed * Home * Frontpage * Continents * Africa * The Americas *…
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Does using terminal-based text browsers provide significant improvements in browsing speed?

I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I know two methods to access the web-pages through terminal. They are lynx and elinks. When I tried to use them to access web-pages from terminal, I didn't seem to get any improvements on browsing speed. I am not sure…
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How can I add a menu item to the right click menu?

In Terminal, if I right-click over a URL, a little menu pops up. The first option is "Open Link". Is there any way to add an option to this menu called "Open Link in Elinks"? I'd like to be able to choose that open and then either launch a new…
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Why do I get "Host not found" when using a restricted Squid proxy in Elinks?

I want to block in elinks the Yahoo sites (www.yahoo.com and all its subdomains fr.yahoo.com, etc). I tried with Squid (squid.conf): acl Badsites dstdomain .yahoo.com http_acces deny Badsites and in elinks.conf: set.protocol.http.proxy.host =…
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Restricting access to yahoo.com with squid and elinks

Possible Duplicate: Restricting access to sites I need to restrict the access to yahoo.com and fr.yahoo.com in elinks using squid. Can everyoane help me
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elinks or w3m command line browser - How to use vpn

I am using elinks and w3m for command line browsing and it works great. How do I use vpn or browse without using my ip address using elinks or w3m?
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Google Chrome won't open .URL extension files Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS

I recently tried to open a URL link I saved onto my desktop by double-clicking it, but it will not open correctly. If I DRAG & DROP the file into chrome works fine. The file is saved with a ".url" extension.
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