internet software

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Sylpheed logo

Linux email clients >

(on Wikipedia)
https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/

An email client.

POP3, APOP, IMAP4rev1, mh, SMTP, SMTP AUTH, NNTP, SSL/TLS, OpenPGP, external editors, filtering, muliple identities. Good multilanguage and character set support.

Sylpheed is bafflingly bad in places, and Claws Mail was a welcome improvement. This relationship reminds me a lot of PCManFM versus PCManFM-mod (which later became SpaceFM).



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Software >
Firefox > Firefox add-ons and extensions >
Chrome > Chromium extensions >

(on Wikipedia)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-%E2%80%94-best-ad-blocker/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom
https://getadblock.com/en/

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GNU logo

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

A commandline file fetching and Mirroring program.

A core part of every Linux distribution. Essential, for when Lynx is just too terrible to use, and there’s nothing else.

  • curl is a solid alternative.
  • You can also use Links or Lynx to download a page.



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Dillo icon

Software > Web browsers >

(on Wikipedia)
was dillo.org

A lightweight web browser.

I thought it had hope but needed significant work.

  • 2022-07-12 – Apparently abandoned

    • The website is down
    • the source code archive as of 202201280 shows the last activity at 2021-02-09. It was a small change and the update previous to that was 2018-10-05.
    • The mailing list archive doesn’t tell me enough because it’s an old snapshot.



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