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Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx

Posted by Soulskill on from the browsers-with-character dept.

Jibbler writes "Following the recent Pwn2Own competition, in which Firefox, IE8 and Safari all fell quickly to exploits, Netcraft has observed a surge in popularity of the text-based Lynx browser. Netcraft points out that Lynx supports the latest cryptographic ciphers, and at least one online banking site has seen Lynx usage overtake that of Internet Explorer and Firefox. To boost Lynx's excellent security history, Netcraft has even developed a version of its anti-phishing toolbar for Lynx."

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  1. Re:Oh dear... by 0racle · · Score: 4, Informative

    At least the screenshot of the toolbar is worth a chuckle.

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    "I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
  2. Re:Why not? Ascii is everything. by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Informative

    How the hell are you supposed to see the ponies if you don't have a graphical browser? ASCII art? There aren't any ASCII ponies, and if I have my way there never will be.

    DOWN WITH ASCII PONIES!!!

    http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/farm.htm#horse

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  3. Re:Is this it? by Ghost+Hedgehog · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'll doubt it is this one. Lynx is a pretty safe browser you know.

  4. Re:Is this it? by eln · · Score: 5, Informative

    Psh...that achievement is just a myth. No one has ever actually achieved it.

  5. Re:Is this it? by McGruber · · Score: 5, Informative

    The one saying "2009 will be Year of the Linux Desktop."

    How about seeing long-time Microsoft shill John C. Dvorak penning a column titled "Dvorak likes Linux"? You wouldn't fall for that, would you?

    It actually happened back on March 9: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2342703,00.asp

    Dvorak wrote: "I cannot wean myself off Windows altogether because, well, I write about Windows. But for ancillary machines that I put together where I need reliability and low price, I'm always going to see whether Ubuntu works. And if it does, that's what gets installed. "

  6. Re:The biggest problem with Lynx... by xororand · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can download the CAPTCHA images and view them externally, for example in fbi: http://linux.die.net/man/1/fbi