 <p>Try to install <em>libmozjs</em>, then (don't forget to do a <em>sudo ldconfig</em> first) compile from the source elinks.</p> <pre><code>wget http://elinks.or.cz/download/elinks-current-0.13.tar.bz2 tar xjvf elinks-current-0.13.tar.bz2 cd elinks-0.13* ./configure make -j8 sudo make install </code></pre> <p>Check after ./configure if <em>ECMAScript</em> is flagged <em>SpiderMonkey document scripting</em>.</p> <p>p.s. Ubuntu 14.04 here.</p>