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Yet another Text browsing experience.
Q: How Was It?
A: Mindblowing !

Let me proceed with the screenshots.

The first thing I want to remind here is that this is the second review I have been doing related to text based browsers. The first was one for Lynx – Commandline browser

However, the Lynx definitely disappionted some of its users, due to many limitations it had. Now, I am pretty much sure, this review will answer some questions that are prevailing in your mind regarding text based web browsing.

The name I want to mention here is “ELinks – the Text Based WWW Browser”.

Let me mention first the great features in this browser other than the previous such browser mentioned.

1. This review is made based on the 0.11.1 version of the browser, released 3rd May 2007
2. Address Bar (g)
3. Menu Bar (ESC)
4. Add Bookmarks (a)
5. Bookmarks Manager (s)
6. Download Manager (d)
7. Browsing History Record (h)
8. Searching (/)
9. Mark the Hyperlinks (.)
10. Horizontal Page Scrolling ([,])
11. Column layouts (Default)
12. Mouse Supports (Right Click, Left click, etc…)
13. Plain/HTML view (Right Click to toggle)
14. UNICODE Support reserved, read this post in Elinks
15. and a lot more…

And the most important is the TABBED Browsing.’>’ to move to next tab, ‘<’ for previous tab and ‘t’ to open new tab, AMAZING)

Besides, the sites I could not visit in Lynx are viewed with best results in ELinks. Better give a try.
And to mention you all , this post is also made from Elinks Browser.

However, let me pick out some limitations,

1. Cut/Copy/Paste does not work
2. Right Click does not work at the form fields

And last but not the least, all images are toggled to links (Press ‘*’) It opens an external viewer to show the image, and presents every image as a link. This wasn’t in the Lynx.

To Install ELinks :
Linux:sudo aptitude install elinks
i do not know if it has a version for windows and other platforms.

Disclaimer
This article is an original article and does not cite any references. The findings and all presented here are based upon the author’s experience.

ACP Masquerade
Deployed For Computing

This article was first published at www.ioelive.com

Hey,
IE (Internet Explorer) is one of the most famous browsers known to all. But why is it famous ? There may be many reasons . One of them may be that it is bundled with the version of Windows Operating Systems. However, there are many other browsers that have replaced the IE Experience and are really ahead in many features that the IE browsers do not provide.

Some of the most famous and favourites browsers are Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Navigator, Opera, and so on.

Today we are going to review one of the new generation browsers which is the MAXTHON Browser.

MAXTHON Browser is not a new browser for today because its first version was release on 11th of July 2002. Till today (18th May 2007) it has reported 87,389,848 downloads of the browser, which is around 17,477,969 average downloads per year. It was developed by Maxthon International Limited.

History and the Leap
Maxthon has been developed over the IE Engine. So some of its features resemble IE still now. It was first just the replacement to IE with some additional features and the most important among all was the Tabbed Browsing. However, till today 52 versions (1.5.9 is the latest till today) have been released including the major and minor bug fixes. Versions History here .

Features Today
Although Maxthon has been developed using the IE Engine, it makes really forget the IE Experience. Some of the major features as included in the latest version 1.5.9 build 80 [2007-02-11]. are as follows:

1. Tabbed Browsing Interface
2. Mouse Gestures
3. Super Drag&Drop
4. Privacy Protection
5. AD Hunter
6. RSS Reader
7. IE Extensions Support
8. External Utility Bar
9. Skinning
10. And Much More to Explore…

Among all these mentioned and un-mentioned features, some of the following are really impressive and likely to appreciate.
a) Tabbed Browsing
First of all, when you just install and start the browser, its sleek design and the cool and relaxing view attracts the first jealous impression.
a) Ad Hunter
Maxthon has a default Ad Blocker installed within. The ad blocker can even notify the places where ads should be with the iframes displayed at the locations.
c) IE Extension Support
Since it is developed ove IE, all the IE Extensions are supported and if you have installed IE and then installed Maxthon, the extensions to IE previously installed will all be intact even in Maxthon.
d) Enhanced Sidebar

e) Personalised Browser Accounts
This is one of the strong features in Maxthon. Maxthon supports the personalised Browsing Experiences by creating different users and personalising the browser for each user independently.

f) Zooming
The features are not all finished. You can zoom the whole website starting from 30% to 400%. Unlike just increasing the text size as in other browsers, it even zooms the images and all other contents in the particular website. The zooming remains intact and only for the specific website viewed.

g) Last But not the Lease
Last but not the least, Maxthon is free to download and use. It is claimed to be the whole new FREE Service.

Besides, one of the major feature and I really liked was that you do not have to leave any page while browsing. All the pages and history remain same whatever link you click even by mistakely. More on this, when I had opened 10 tabs and in the 2nd tab I clicked a link in the website, in many of the cases the link just opens in a new tab and the tab is just alongside the original 2nd tab.

Also, the drag and drop of tabs are worth friendlier then even in some other famous browsers.

Links
Maxthon Official Website
Maxthion Tabbed browser screenshot
Version History
Free Browser Download
Author’s

Disclaimer
The article above is totally based upon the experiences of the author and hence may not resemble the truth in some cases. So it is requested to post comment to the author here or post comments directly at ioelive.com .

By,
ACP Masquerade
Deployed for Computing…