ELinks
| ELinks | |
|---|---|
 An older version of this article rendered in ELinks | |
| Original authors | Petr Baudiš, Jonas Fonseca |
| Developer | Witold Filipczyk |
| Release | March 2, 2002 |
| Stable release | |
| Preview release | 0.19.0rc1
/ December 6, 2025 |
| Written in | C, C++ |
| Operating system | DOS, Linux, Windows |
| Available in | English, Polish, Danish, French, Serbian, Hungarian, Czech, German, |
| Type | Text-based web browser |
| License | GPL 2.0 only |
| Website | github |
| Repository | github |
ELinks is a text-based web browser for the operating systems DOS, Linux, and Windows. It is free and open-source software with a GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 only.
History
[edit]It began in late 2001 as an experimental fork by Petr Baudiš of the Links Web browser, hence the E in the name.[2] Since then, the E has come to stand for Enhanced or Extended.[3] On 1 September 2004, Baudiš handed maintainership of the project over to Danish developer Jonas Fonseca, citing a lack of time and interest and a desire to spend more time coding rather than reviewing and organising releases.[4]
On 17 March 2017, OpenBSD removed ELinks from its ports tree, citing concerns with security issues and lack of responsiveness from the developers.[5]
On 17 November 2017, ELinks was forked into another program named felinks, meaning forked elinks. On 1 December 2020, the felinks repository on GitHub was renamed to elinks, with permission from Baudiš, as the old ELinks was not being actively maintained.[6]
elinks is being actively maintained: preview version 0.18.0rc1 was released 7 December 2024,[7] while stable version 0.18.0 was released 25 December 2024.[8]
Features
[edit]- HTTP and Proxy authentication
- Persistent HTTP cookies
- Support for browser scripting in Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua and GNU Guile[9]
- Tabs (though still text mode)[9]
- HTML tables and HTML frames[9]
- Background download with queueing
- Some support for Cascading Style Sheets[9]
- Some support for ECMAScript by using Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine[9]
- Editing of text boxes in external text editor
- Mouse support, with wheel scroll
- Colour text display
- Protocols supported:
- local files, Finger, Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP, Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), File Service Protocol (FSP), Server Message Block (SMB), Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
- experimental: BitTorrent, gopher, gemini,[4] nntp
See also
[edit]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Release 0.20.0". 26 July 2026. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
- ↑ Baudiš, Petr (2001-10-28). "[Announce] Experimental Links Tree". Gmane. Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
- ↑ "The history and evolution of the Links browsers". ELinks. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2010-12-14.
- 1 2 Fonseca, Jonas (2004-12-24). "[elinks-users] [Announce] ELinks-0.10.0 (Thelma)". Linux From Scratch. Archived from the original on 2019-02-24. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
- ↑ Barrett, Edd (2017-03-17). "Remove www/elinks from the ports tree". MARC. Archived from the original on 2021-10-22. Retrieved 2024-06-07.
- ↑ Filipczyk, Witold (2017-11-11). "rkd77/elinks: Fork of elinks". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2020-12-13. Retrieved 2024-06-07.
- ↑ Filipczyk, Witold (2024-12-07). "Release v0.18.0rc1 · rkd77/elinks". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2025-02-20. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
- ↑ Filipczyk, Witold (2024-12-26). "Release v0.18.0: rkd77/elinks". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2025-02-11. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Bolso, Erik Inge (2005-03-08). "2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup". Linux Journal. Archived from the original on 2017-12-14. Retrieved 2010-08-05.