Unix 互換システムに不慣れな方からは、よく以下のような質問を受けます。 「テキストブラウザーって、ほんとに必要なんですか？ 私は X もビルドしたし、 Firefox/Falkon などもビルドして使っているんですよ。」 Those who have been around systems for a while know that when (not if) you manage to mess up your graphical browser install and you need to look up some information on the web, a console based browser will save you. Also, there are quite a few people who prefer to use one of these browsers as their primary method of browsing; either to avoid the clutter and bandwidth which accompanies images or because they may use a text-to-speech synthesizer which can read the page to them (of use for instance to partially sighted or blind users). In this chapter you will find installation instructions for three console web browsers: