Following are user contributed tips and tricks: Poor Man's screen(1) ~or~ "relinks": This will start ELinks on a *new* console if it is not already running, or open the specified URL (if any) in a new tab in the running instance. Save this script as "relinks" or something. Written by Russ, quoting fixed by Miciah. #!/bin/sh elinks -remote ping\(\) 2>/dev/null \ && elinks -remote openURL\(${1:+"${1}"},new-tab\) \ && exit 0 openvt -sw -- elinks ${1:+"${1}"} & deallocvt