Re: Google does not work?

To save U-A, use a shell setup file like .bashrc to get a permanent alias

alias lynx="/usr/local/bin/lynx -nopause -tna -useragent='Mozilla/5.0
(iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X)  AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e  Safari/8536.25' "

works for me, google responds with its search box

and with an alias the [O]ptions page seems to populate the User-Agent
header field (temporary solution for a single shell session)

On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM yeti <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> | "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X)
> | AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e
> | Safari/8536.25"
>
> If you set the User-Agent string to this, Lynx works with Google.
>
> I tested this with an older version I sometimes use on SDF.
>
> Unluckily I found no way to save this, as that option is one of those
> who can be changed but not saved.
>
> ... or I'm overlooking something.
>
> Has this changed in newer versions?
>
> So if I were a frequent Lynx user, I'd just replace that string in the
> source and rebuild Lynx, but there have to be better ways.
>

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