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		andai on May 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (... I actually used text based browsers as my main thing for a few weeks, when I had really bad internet. Ran it thru ssh on a VPS, much faster that way. I found the w3m browser gave the best formatting and mouse support.

augustk on May 28, 2019 [–]

When I have a slow internet connection I use the Dillo browser with CSS and image loading disabled. Dillo is also really snappy even on an old computer.

https://www.dillo.org/

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