Few days ago the release of the new version was announced from the web browser "Links 2.26" which comes with some new changes and bug fixes.
For those who are unaware of Links, they should know that this is a minimalistic web browser that supports graphical and console modes. When working in console mode, it is possible to display colors and control the mouse if it is supported by the terminal used (eg xterm).
In graphics mode it supports image output and font smoothing. In all modes, the display of tables and frames is provided. The Navigator supports the HTML 4.0 specification but ignores CSS and JavaScript. There's also support for bookmarks, SSL/TLS, background downloads, and menu system control. When running, Links consumes around 5 MB of RAM in text mode and 20 MB in graphic mode.
As of version 2 of the Links browser, graphics are displayed, it renders fonts at different sizes (with spatial anti-aliasing), but it no longer supports JavaScript (it used to, until version 2.1pre28).
The Navigator as such it is very fast, but it does not display many pages as expected. Graphics mode works even on Unix systems without the X Window System or any other windowing environment, using SVGALib or the system's graphics card framebuffer.
Main novelties of Links 2.26
In this new version of the browser, it was added andl support for “DNS over HTTPS” mode (DoH, DNS over HTTPS), as well as highlighting that the support for images in WEBP format.
Another change that stands out in this new version is that the ability to call an external handler for the "gopher://" protocol«.
In addition to this, it is also highlighted that the handling of the situation when the «TD» tag in the tables is not specified within the «TR» tag was added.
We can also find that the ability to connect a socket to a network interface to bind requests to an IP address selected by the user.
On the other hand, it is also highlighted that default bookmarks have been updated, as well as improved performance on systems without the getaddrinfo function.
finally if you are interested in knowing more about it, you can check the details in the following link
How to install Links web browser on Linux?
For those who are interested in being able to install this web browser on their system They can do so by following the instructions we share below.
The new version of Links 2.26 at the moment it can only be obtained by downloading the source code of this and making the compilation.
For it only we have to open terminal rune and we will execute the following commands, the first thing will be to download the new version with:
wget http://links.twibright.com/download/links-2.26.tar.gz
After We are going to unzip the downloaded package with the following command:
tar xzvf links-2.26.tar.gz
We enter the directory that was created with:
cd links-2.26
Now we are going to proceed with the compilation executing the following command:
./configure --enable-graphics
After finishing the configuration in the terminal we type:
make
And we carry out the installation with the command:
sudo make install
And ready with it, they will already have this new version installed.
Now, in case you don't want to install using this method, you can wait a few days to install from your distribution's repositories.
So for the case of Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives just have to type in a terminal the following command:
sudo apt install links
While for those who are users of Arch Linux, Manjaro, Arco Linux and other Arch Linux based distributions:
sudo pacman -S links
For those who are openSUSE users installed with the following command:
sudo zypper in links
Finally, another method to be able to install this web browser on your system is with the help of the snap packages and the only requirement is that you have support for these types of packages installed on your system. The installation can be done by typing:
sudo snap install links