When comparing Mypal vs w3m, the Slant community recommends w3m for most people. In the question“What are the best browsers not based on Chromium?” w3m is ranked 6th while Mypal is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose w3m is:
Although w3m is primarily a text-based web browser which runs inside the terminal, it supports and renders several elements which other terminal-based browsers cannot like images, tables, tabs or frames.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Customizable with Pale Moon and some Firefox addons
Supports add-ons from PM, Firefox and other Mozilla add-ons websites (xpi).
Pro All video formats supported
Does better than Firefox 52 in that regard.
Pro Supports Windows Vista
Pro Now supports pdf inside browser
Pro Support for several elements not found in terminal browsers
Although w3m is primarily a text-based web browser which runs inside the terminal, it supports and renders several elements which other terminal-based browsers cannot like images, tables, tabs or frames.
Pro Available as emacs plugin
W3m can also be downloaded as an emacs plugins to be used as a fast web browser that runs inside emacs.
Cons
Con Intermittent text distortion problem
Con Outdated
Becomes sluggish when surfing lots of hours, lacks compatibility with Firefox quantum add-ons.
Con Steep learning curve
Being a terminal web browser w3m has a certain learning curve because you need to learn the keystrokes and different commands.