between google and firefox it's nearly impossible to get anything done!

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Try this:

url=`cat file`
lynx $url
or
lynx "$url"

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 07:01:35AM -0400, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> I have a long ugly google url stored in a file.  It's stored in a file
> so if I find a browser that works with javascript and can take an url
> from a file when the browser gets started and open that url for me I can
> maybe get this done.  The long ugly url is over 200 characters long
> which is why I would like to avoid keying it all in.
> 
> I just thought of something.  This will even work with firefox but it's
> only for us braille users who write braille on paper and have plenty of
> paper.  I could rewrite the url on paper so it's split into 5 character
> groups and have commas separating each of the groups and as I key in
> each group change the comma to a semicolon so I know that group already
> got keyed in and move along to the next group.
> 
> On Sun, 14 Apr 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 14:36:40
> > From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> > To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> > Subject: Re: between google and firefox it's nearly impossible to get anything
> >      done!
> >
> > I am unsure what you are trying to accomplish, but have you tried e-links, or
> > links the chain  instead?
> > Both browsers are included in Debian distributions of Linux.  It may still
> > require some extra compile work  for e-links to use Javascript some, links the
> > chain can do so, I am told as of about a month ago, even in DOS.
> > Generally I  have no issues using the Google services I need in lynx, but I am
> > not doing anything with YouTube.
> > Kare
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 14 Apr 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> >
> > > I found out a few minutes ago it's not possible to do something like:
> > > firefox < /home/jude/surf
> > > Where /home/jude/surf has an ugly google url in it that cannot be
> > > processed by
> > > lynx since google and so very many other web sites love blocking what
> > > doesn't use javascript.
> > > I was going to get an authentication token on this box so I could use
> > > youtube-viewer in a logged in state but that's not going to happen at all.
> > >
> > >
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