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firefox rule (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

One could also use w3m or links. All the RAM-hungry things (such as CSS3, JavaScript APIs and heavy multimedia files) will be finally gone for good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

*lynx (links are the things that tie the www together)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(web_browser)

Best browser.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Minds are blown, thanks for the correction!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But all the ads will come back, so it's a wash

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Considering that the vast majority of the modern ads are videos or images, they won't show up in such text-browser environments. Also, they depend on JavaScript, which isn't available through such text-browser environments.