Elinks is a feature-rich program for browsing the web in text mode. it is like enhanced lynx and links. the most noteworthy features of elinks are:

* lots of protocols (local files, finger, http(s), ftp, ipv4/6 etc.)
* internationalized domain names
* persistent cookies, http authentication and proxy authentication
* tabbed browsing, good looking menus and dialogs, and key-binding manager
* history browsing and typeahead searches
* forms history and completion, and history in commonly used input dialogs
* css support and support for browser scripting (perl, lua, guile etc.)
* tables and frames rendering, and configurable color support
* compressed and background (non-blocking) downloads, and download resuming
this package contains the data files that are necessary to use elinks.