Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx 220
Jibbler writes "Following the recent Pwn2Own competition, in which Firefox, IE8 and Safari all fell quickly to exploits, Netcraft has observed a surge in popularity of the text-based Lynx browser. Netcraft points out that Lynx supports the latest cryptographic ciphers, and at least one online banking site has seen Lynx usage overtake that of Internet Explorer and Firefox. To boost Lynx's excellent security history, Netcraft has even developed a version of its anti-phishing toolbar for Lynx."
Re:My ASCII Art Collection is back in vogue (Score:2, Informative)
Sorry, that looks like shit in Lynx. Try again?
Re:Oh dear... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Why not? Ascii is everything. (Score:5, Informative)
How the hell are you supposed to see the ponies if you don't have a graphical browser? ASCII art? There aren't any ASCII ponies, and if I have my way there never will be.
DOWN WITH ASCII PONIES!!!
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/farm.htm#horse [geocities.com]
Re:Is this it? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Is this it? (Score:5, Informative)
Psh...that achievement is just a myth. No one has ever actually achieved it.
Wamu's site works in Lynx (Score:2, Informative)
I hope that Chase doesn't change that on me.
Though I normally, just use it on my phone, it's quite nice having access to my accounts from any browser.
Re:Is this it? (Score:5, Informative)
The one saying "2009 will be Year of the Linux Desktop."
How about seeing long-time Microsoft shill John C. Dvorak penning a column titled "Dvorak likes Linux"? You wouldn't fall for that, would you?
It actually happened back on March 9: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2342703,00.asp [pcmag.com]
Dvorak wrote: "I cannot wean myself off Windows altogether because, well, I write about Windows. But for ancillary machines that I put together where I need reliability and low price, I'm always going to see whether Ubuntu works. And if it does, that's what gets installed. "
Re:-5 troll (Score:3, Informative)
In a vaguely related manner, does it still count as a april fools story if it's a story linking to a april fools story on another site? We're at one level of indirection here.
Re:The biggest problem with Lynx... (Score:3, Informative)
You can download the CAPTCHA images and view them externally, for example in fbi: http://linux.die.net/man/1/fbi [die.net]
Re:Frist prost (Score:3, Informative)
True, but even though it's April 1 I was being truthful. Derek's native port of Lynx:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/browser/os2lynx2_8.zip [nmsu.edu]
is a rather different code base from the traditional POSIX port:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/browser/lx287d9.zip [nmsu.edu]
Another source of Lynx for OS/2 for completeness:
http://www.os2site.com/sw/internet/browser/lynx/index.html [os2site.com]
and of course the versions of Links which are available are well-documented here:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/browser/links-2.1pre14.zip [nmsu.edu]
http://www.os2site.com/sw/internet/browser/links/index.html [os2site.com]
I've not actually used any eLinks port under OS/2, though.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/browser/elinks03pre3.zip [nmsu.edu]
Oh yeah, and there's w3m as well:
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA000199/os2/w3m.html [vector.co.jp]
I'm not a fan of w3m, though. :-)