When I run w3m 'google.com/search?unicode+smiley' the page does load correctly, but it keeps refreshing every 0 seconds until I hit CtrlC.
I don't think I changed any of my w3m settings and this is a new behaviour.
asked May 11, 2015 at 21:30
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w3m has been known to have problems with http-equiv="refresh", which the google results page uses — the copy I see has no timeout.
Here are a few (not recent) reports mentioning w3m:
answered May 11, 2015 at 21:49
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1Thanks to the discussion in your first link (towards the bottom) I was able to edit
~/.w3m/configwhich fixed the problem. Commented May 13, 2015 at 17:09
Edit ~/.w3m/config. There is a line that says meta_refresh 1; change the 1 to a 0.
More discussion in this link which @Thomas Dickey posted: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/hpzglVb9B5M. (Skip the first 4 or 5 to get to where they're attempting to answer it.)
answered May 13, 2015 at 17:10