Re: Problem running lynx under MacOS

Its a fine thing then that lynx is updated regularly for various systems 
then.
I admit, speaking personally, that I have no issues using https with lynx 
at  all.
And given the AI errors of late,  again speaking personally, I would not 
trust it to find the direction of a one way street lol.



On Thu, 12 Feb 2026, David Woolley wrote:

> On 11/02/2026 04:24, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>>  For the record David, this change from Google has zero to do with sight
>>  safety.
>
> I didn't introduce site safety in the context of Google's search engine.  The 
> only reason I mentioned Google is that its  AI gave me an easy way of getting 
> to relevant information in a compact form, to show what the OP should have 
> been able to find with a bit of research effort.
>
> The https everywhere initiative doesn't discriminate against Lynx, but rather 
> against old systems.  Once you make security important, you have to 
> continually update software as vulnerabilities are discovered, and that means 
> you can't use 18 year old software and expect it to be secure.
>
> Google wasn't listed as a site that was causing an issue, and the failure 
> reported was one that would mean that the  web site would not have been able 
> to identify the browser, as that would require it to have seen the plain 
> text.
>
>