16GB of RAM

Right, Lynx doesn't display images at all. It can't. But you can tell it to show all image links on a page (with the * toggle key) and then you can follow one of those links. If you didn't configure anything it'll probably just try to download the image to your disk. But you can also set an image viewer program in /etc/lynx.cfg or just edit your ~/.mailcap file with entries like these:
image/png; feh -FZ %s
image/gif; feh -FZ %s
image/jpeg; feh -FZ %s
application/pdf; xpdf -q %s


In theory, even Lynx should work, but it brings up a "(D)ownload or (C)ancel" dialog when the captcha page is invoked. So I use "Links -g" just for that purpose.

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Yeah 100 is crazy. I usually only have about 20 open.

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They most hilarious irony I've encountered was when I finally upgraded from 2GB to 8GB RAM several months ago. GNU/Linux Firefox never gave me trouble before even with ~400 tabs, but now I run into its memory leak sucking up all my RAM all the fucking time. What in the actual fuck? Do I have to run this in a virtual machine to protect my memory from being gobbled up entirely?

palemoon doesn't suffer this

That's an amazing story. I wish I could find out the truth of what's happening here.

Well I kind of have peace of mind because I have no choice of browser. With 3000+ tabs open, Palemoon is the only viable browser.

What the fuck are you doing? You're doing it wrong.

what is bookmarking? what are RSS feeds? what is 'saving to mhtml/arc/maff? what is time management? what are native applications?