@Zachary: On my desktop, I use a script provided by Knoppix's Adriane
accessibility suite to launch a stripped down x-session just for
Firefox and make heavy use of switching ttys to go back and forth
between the GUI and the command line.
@Kperry: I imagine much of it comes down to what one is used to. For
people who have been using links the chain, lynx the cat, or another
text-mode browser since the days when command lines were the dominant
interface, it probably made more sense for many of them to learn those
external tools than to learn a whole new paradigm by switching to the
GUI. For those of us whose first exposure to the Internet was via
graphical web browser, what's been a gradual accumulation of tricks
for the long time text-browser user appears as a sheer climb to learn
for the new comer.
That said, I consider myself lucky that I was already progressively
favoring the command-line over GUI applications long before my vision
started failing and was already comfortable with the use of keyboard
shortcuts instead of being completely reliant on a mouse.
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