Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:15:01 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> Cc: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "Smartness-free" web browser? Message-ID: <44k1i1q8h6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <a0b2524b-1e89-ab28-97a6-d6e8cb6cbdca@qeng-ho.org> (Arthur Chance's message of "Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:19:53 %2B0000") References: <bf2c4cc6-20a4-311d-4911-d8e06250e8ba@kicp.uchicago.edu> <bbce43b3-74ca-9787-a11a-b75f7091c7dd@qeng-ho.org> <4fc0f22a-c901-aa8c-e083-adbeef12a525@kicp.uchicago.edu> <a0b2524b-1e89-ab28-97a6-d6e8cb6cbdca@qeng-ho.org>
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Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> writes: > On 15/02/2019 15:36, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> >> On 2/15/19 9:23 AM, Arthur Chance wrote: >>> On 15/02/2019 15:18, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >>>> Dear Experts, >>>> >>>> I am looking for "Smartness-free" web browser. In the past I was using >>>> midori, but today I was bitten in my backside by "smartness" introduced >>>> into latest midori. >>>> >>>> Why. I have a bunch of machines with older 3ware RAIDs. The last I loved >>>> for having web interface. To the contrary to command line, especially in >>>> case of hardware RAID management, it is much more difficult to screw up >>>> when using GUI. >>>> >>>> In the past, when firefox went all the way about SSL certificates, >>>> midori was my life preserver. I do access these RAID web interfaces >>>> locally, and I do know what's going on inside these machines... I can >>>> disable SSL in 3ware RAID daemon (this time it just doesn't accept >>>> certificates 3ware daemon presents - to way for me to affect that that I >>>> can find) but... I just don't like some piece of software thinking it is >>>> smarter than I am when I use it. Dough. >>>> >>>> Any suggestions, anybody? >>> >>> Depending on how much graphic decoration the GUI uses, maybe a text >>> based browser like lynx might serve your needs? >>> >> >> Thanks for suggestion! >> >> Alas, 3ware uses frames which lunx doesn't support... > > In which case, maybe links (www/links). From its features list > >> Tables, frames in both graphics and text mode, built-in image display > in graphics mode. > > Please note, I haven't used it, I'm just going by its documentation. It does okay. www/w3m sometimes does better.
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