Lynx
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Lynx, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
The facts
Each one read from Lynx's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Automation
- The manual documents command-line options to dump formatted pages, traverse links, and output pages for indexing.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Built-in ad blocking
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- Cookies
- Lynx supports Version 0 and Version 1 cookie exchanges, and cookie handling can be disabled or configured.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Current development
- The official development page says work is underway on Lynx 2.9.4 and links to current source archives.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Downloads
- The stable release page offers Lynx 2.9.3 as ZIP, gzip tar, and bzip2 tar distribution files.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Extension support
- nonechecked 23 Sep 2026
- Forms
- Lynx supports HTML forms with buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, selection fields, and text-entry fields.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Help and support
- The site provides an online user guide and directs questions or comments to the lynx-dev mailing list.checked 11 Oct 2026
- HTML support
- The user guide lists support for HTML forms, images, tables, frames, and other HTML features.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Images
- Lynx does not display images as images; its guide describes options to show image presence as labels or links.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Language support
- The development page says Lynx supports multiple languages through gettext and that message catalogs are bundled with the source distribution.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Local files
- Lynx can display local HTML files and other files supplied at startup.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Local use
- Lynx can open local files and can be used to build information systems for local access or a single LAN.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Maintainer
- The current development page identifies Thomas E. Dickey as the page updater and provides his email address.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Navigation
- The guide describes navigating links with arrow keys or the numeric keypad, with a history page and visited links page.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Open source
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Product
- Lynx is a text web browser for character-cell displays and terminal emulators.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Secure connections
- The current README says the SSL configure option enables HTTPS and SNEWS access using OpenSSL, and describes experimental GnuTLS support.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The development page directs questions or comments to the lynx-dev mailing list, whose archive is linked there.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Browser actions
- The user guide documents printing, mailing, saving rendered files, viewing source, and downloading or saving source files.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Browser engine
- otherchecked 23 Sep 2026
- Cross-device sync
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- Supported platforms
- desktopchecked 23 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
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