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| 8 | <chapter id="basicnet-textweb">
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="textweb.html"?>
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| 11 | <title>Text Web Browsers</title>
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| 13 | <para>
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| 14 | People who are new to Unix-based systems tend to ask the question "Why on
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| 15 | earth would I want a text-mode browser? I'm going to compile
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| 16 | <application>X</application> and use <application>
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| 17 | Firefox</application>/<application>Falkon</application>/Whatever!".
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| 18 | Those who have been around systems for a while know that when (not if)
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| 19 | you manage to mess up your graphical browser install and you need to
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| 20 | look up some information on the web, a console based browser will save
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| 21 | you. Also, there are quite a few people who prefer to use one of these
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| 22 | browsers as their primary method of browsing; either to avoid the clutter
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| 23 | and bandwidth which accompanies images or because they may use a
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| 24 | text-to-speech synthesizer which can read the page to them (of use for
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| 25 | instance to partially sighted or blind users). In this chapter you will
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| 26 | find installation instructions for two console web browsers:
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| 27 | </para>
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