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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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I can only imagine that Lynx's inherent simplicity simply ignores a lot of what modern websites do. So ergo sum, all things being equal (or simpler), it just works where others barf on themselves. :) – Ian Atkin Dec 7 '12 at 1:52
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the thing that that website is kinda simple. It is like wiki - a lot of text, few images, almost no js. Still normal browser correctly and quickly loads complicated websites like sencha tutorial or FB. – Salvador Dali Dec 7 '12 at 1:55
+1 for mentioning my employer. :) – Ian Atkin Dec 7 '12 at 1:56

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You live in a country which has censored Internet service by requiring Internet service providers to proxy all Web sites and filter out content that the government deems unsuitable.

It may be that these proxy servers are interfering with your connection to this site (and other sites as well).

In this case, try using a solution like Tor to bypass the proxy and see the Internet as the rest of the world sees it.

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-1 So how would one browser bypass the censorship and not another one? Did they forget to filter the lynx user agent perhaps? Some add pages are probably blocked resulting in timeouts while the original site is not blocked and hence works in a non-js browser. – Ярослав Рахматуллин Dec 7 '12 at 4:25
The thing that the site is not blocked. It just sometimes not working. You need to press F5 all the time and after some time you will be lucky and see it. But with lynx it is available always. – Salvador Dali Dec 7 '12 at 13:33

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