OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)

[Randy Kramer <rhkramer@gmail.com>]

Hijacking this thread thinking I might have a good audience for my question:

Is there a text based browser that makes it easy to copy a URL (with, e.g.,  
the middle mouse button) to paste it in another (graphical) browser?

I have lynx installed on my machine, and tried a quick look at it, but is not 
immediately obvious how to get the URL for a link.

Maybe it can be done readily in lynx and I just haven't spotted how to do it?

Background: Because some pages (for example, the yahoo home page (yahoo.com) 
make both Iceweasel and konqueror use a very high percentage of the CPU, I 
thought I might try to load pages like that in a text browser, then copy the 
URLs of any links that I want to follow into Iceweasel to view them with 
pictures and such.

Thanks!

Randy Kramer

On Wednesday 29 February 2012 12:17:44 pm Julien Claassen wrote:
>    I have tried lynx, links, links2, elinks and w3m. I work with those
> exclusively. I still mostly stick by lynx, but that is just laziness, since
> it really doesn't do a few things.
>    I have found, that from the above collection elinks is the best. It can
> be customised to meet almost all your needs. I don't get it to play
> youtube-videos (as audio) directly yet and I suppose, that might be out of
> the question.
>    These browsers are all rather comfortable, once you get to know them and
> they all have a lot of similarities, which is good, as consistency always
> is. I have only heard about edbrowse, but I think it is really the best
> solution, if you think, you might encounter a lot of NECESSARY javascript.
> Necessary opposd to beautifying or slightly helpful javascript.