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Which of the following programs is not a graphical web browser?
The correct answer is C. Links. Links is a text-based web browser that renders pages in the terminal without a graphical user interface, unlike the other options which are all GUI browsers.
Question
Which of the following programs is not a graphical web browser?
Options
- AKonqueror
- BFirefox
- CLinks
- DOpera
- EChrome
How the community answered
(49 responses)- A14% (7)
- B4% (2)
- C73% (36)
- D2% (1)
- E6% (3)
Why each option
Links is a text-based web browser that renders pages in the terminal without a graphical user interface, unlike the other options which are all GUI browsers.
Konqueror is a full graphical web browser and file manager developed by the KDE project that renders pages with a complete GUI.
Firefox is a widely used open-source graphical web browser developed by Mozilla with full GUI and multimedia support.
Links (and its variant Links2) is a text-mode web browser designed to run in a terminal or console environment, displaying web content as plain text without graphics or a windowed GUI. Because it lacks a graphical interface, it does not qualify as a graphical web browser, setting it apart from all other listed options.
Opera is a graphical web browser with a full GUI, supporting modern web standards, extensions, and multimedia.
Chrome is Google's graphical web browser with a full GUI, built on the Chromium engine.
Concept tested: Identifying text-based versus graphical web browsers
Source: https://linux.die.net/man/1/links
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