why lynx browser sometimes can open a page that normal browser can not

Posted by Salvador Dali on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Salvador Dali
Published on 2012-12-07T01:50:01Z Indexed on 2012/12/07 5:09 UTC
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I found a really interesting peculiarity of Lynx while trying to write an application using bitcoin. The problem is that although the bitcoin site does not always open with modern browsers like Google Chrome or Firefox, it always opens using the Lynx browser.

The same peculiarity appears with some other web-sites. I was wondering what the reason could be for this but was not able to come up with any.

Any ideas, or this is just coincidence?

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