On 2025-01-30 at 08:52, Will Mengarini wrote: > w3m needs some serious maintenance. It's still my favorite browser, > but I hear Google is planning to start requiring Javascript for > searches, so somebody's going to have to step up if w3m is to remain > viable.
Planning to? They already have - except that they have a whitelist of browsers they recognize as not supporting JS at all, and they serve search results (with different formatting) to those browsers anyway. They could of course be planning to drop that whitelist too, but so far I at least haven't heard any reports about that. If you spoof your User-Agent string to google.com as being for e.g. lynx, you can get those no-JS search-results pages even in Firefox. It's just only arguably worth it. On one of my computers, I've jumped through the needed hoops to set things up (with a browser extension) to spoof the UA for google.com and nowhere else. On another, I've switched search-engine defaults from Google to (the HTML-only version of) DuckDuckGo. So far neither is giving me such an obviously superior experience for me to decide to switch the other machine over so they both match. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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