Software:W3m

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w3m
w3m running in an xterm displaying the Wikipedia main page.
Original author(s)Akinori Ito
Developer(s)Fumitoshi UKAI, Tatsuya Kinoshita, Rene Kita, et al.
Initial release1995
Stable release
Original version0.5.3 / 15 January 2011; 15 years ago (2011-01-15)[1]
Tatsuya Kinoshita versionv0.5.3+git20210102 / 2 January 2021; 5 years ago (2021-01-02)[2]
Written inC
Operating systemOS/2,[3][4] Unix & Unix-like (Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD and EWS-UX (EWS-4800),[5] Windows (with Cygwin), macOS (with Homebrew)
Available inEnglish and Japanese
TypeWeb browser, Terminal pager
LicenseMIT license

w3m is a free and open source text-based web browser licensed under the MIT license. It differs from other early text-based browsers by supporting elements such as tables, frames, and, in some distributions, images.[6][7]

History

The name "w3m" stands for "WWW wo miru (WWWを見る)", which is Japanese for "to see the WWW", and where "W3" is a numeronym of "WWW".[8] The original project is no longer active. A different developer, Tatsuya Kinoshita, was maintaining a fork until early 2024.[9] Kinoshita left the project after a few months.[10] A new fork was created as a result,[11] which continues to be developed as of 2026.[12]

Functions

w3m runs in terminal emulator programs such as xterm and GNOME Terminal.[13] The browser has tabbed browsing, right click menus, and image support,[13] along with support for tables and frames. It also functions as a terminal pager.[6] It can be navigated solely using the keyboard or with the mouse. There are two different display modes, one with colors and one that is monochrome.[14]

w3m can be used within Emacs.[15]

Some distributions require the installation of a second package, w3m-img, to render images using w3m.[16]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Browse /w3m". 15 January 2011. https://sourceforge.net/projects/w3m/files/w3m/. 
  2. ↑ "Releases". 2 January 2021. https://github.com/tats/w3m/releases. 
  3. ↑ TOKORO, Kyosuke. "w3m 0.2.1–3 for OS/2 WARP". http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA000199/os2/w3m.html. 
  4. ↑ Watson, Dave (September 2001). "Text-Mode Web Browsers for OS/2". The Southern California OS/2 User Group. http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2001/scoug009.textbrowsers.html. 
  5. ↑ w3m manual page
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Rutland, David (2022-11-02). "The 3 Best Terminal-Based Web Browsers for Linux" (in en). https://www.makeuseof.com/best-terminal-web-browsers-linux/. 
  7. ↑ Negus, Christopher (2005-01-28) (in en). Linux Bible. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-7645-8974-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=YDXlYUuIQv8C&pg=PA567. 
  8. ↑ "W3M FAQ". https://w3m.sourceforge.net/FAQ. 
  9. ↑ Das, Ankush (2020-10-20). "Best Terminal-based Web Browsers for Linux Users" (in en). https://itsfoss.com/terminal-web-browsers/. 
  10. ↑ Kita, Rene (2024-08-01). "w3m Maintenance" (in en). https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/304. 
  11. ↑ "w3m: Fork of Debian's w3m" (in en). https://sr.ht/~rkta/w3m/. 
  12. ↑ "~rkta/w3m: master log". https://git.sr.ht/~rkta/w3m/log. 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Hoffman, Chris (2012-01-23). "How to Browse From the Linux Terminal With W3M" (in en). https://www.howtogeek.com/103574/how-to-browse-from-the-linux-terminal-with-w3m/. 
  14. ↑ "How to use the W3M text-based web browser on Linux" (in en-US). AddictiveTips. 2021-04-17. https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/w3m-browser-linux/. 
  15. ↑ "EmacsWiki: w3m". https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/w3m. 
  16. ↑ Rankin, Kyle (2006) (in en). Linux Multimedia Hacks: Tips & Tools for Taming Images, Audio, and Video. O'Reilly Media, Inc.. ISBN 978-0-596-10076-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=MaebAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA275. 



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