qtwebkit
otter-browser
qtwebkit | otter-browser | |
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12 | 15 | |
462 | 1,765 | |
- | 0.1% | |
0.0 | 9.5 | |
about 1 year ago | 7 days ago | |
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- | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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qtwebkit
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30% of Firefox users have ≤4 GB of RAM in 2023 - web browsers should be more lightweight and optimize RAM usage
Not so ancient - Otter uses QtWebKit 5.212 from Mar 10, 2020.
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Browser engine in Otter
AFAIK, Otter Browser uses the latest QtWebkit-ng on Windows. It scores 341 points in HTML5Test. There is also an experimental Qt WebEngine backend.
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Making a New Browser
The main backend for Otter Browser is QtWebkit Reloaded, last updated in 2020, see the screenshot.
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Which browser is the best for my 10 year old PC?
As for Otter Browser, there is a bug in QtWebKit. Try using Otter Browser on Qt WebEngine.
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Any WebKit browsers for windows 10?
Otter Browser is based on QtWebKit-NG, which is from 2020, so still relevant. That said, you can use the nightly WebKit build from Playwright: https://i.postimg.cc/Fz7FwRQW/Playwright.png
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Which Embed Browser engine to use?
Lastly, the other webkit based project, QtWebkit. It is also very lightweight and fast, It also provides a cross-platform render and It has access to the system dialogs. The down side is that you will have to make a Qt App to use it. If you don't want to implement it, then you cannot use It
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Qutebrowser v2.0.0 released (with better adblocker)
> I hate that it's based on Chromium though
There aren't really many alternatives. The main one is WebKitGTK, but that comes with its own set of issues (mostly performance/compatibility). You can use qutebrowser with QtWebKit as well, but I wouldn't recommend it - it's based on a 2018 WebKit with many known security issues: https://github.com/qtwebkit/qtwebkit/releases
I had hoped for Servo to fill that gap at some point, but so far that hasn't happened yet: https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/27579
Another possibility is for Geckoview to be ported to Desktop platforms some day: https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/ - something the people behind Tridactyl would like to happen: https://tridactyl.xyz/ideas/#port-geckoview-to-x86_64
> and Qutebrowser privacy related settings also seem quite limited compared to Firefox... (and even compared to Chromium.)
Can you be more specific? Pretty much anything that's possible to expose (either via a QtWebEngine API or via Chromium commandline arguments) is exposed. Certain things (like deleting cookies belonging to a tab when it's closed) just aren't possible without implementing them in QtWebEngine first unfortunately.
FWIW there's an overview here: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/4045
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Multiple distros considering removal of Chromium
and Qt has mostly moved to qtwebengine/blink. qt-webkit is sort-of-not-really maintained by very few volunteers. https://github.com/qtwebkit/qtwebkit/releases
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[CENSORSHIP] Mozilla goes all-in on deplatforming
While you can still use it with QtWebKit instead, I wouldn't recommend doing so, as that's still based on a 2018 WebKit with no process isolation or sandboxing.
otter-browser
- Ask HN: Is there a web browser, that's just a browser?
- After googling all these terms, the directions to build and install Otter Browser are still NONSENSE
- hese directions to build and install Otter Browser are NONSENSE
- These directions to build and install Otter Browser are NONSENSE
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Otter browser appimage does not open, already followed directions from similar threads with no luck
What is more expected is to read instructions: https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser/blob/master/INSTALL.md
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30% of Firefox users have ≤4 GB of RAM in 2023 - web browsers should be more lightweight and optimize RAM usage
Ah, I see. I didn't realize it wasn't the Master. https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser/tree/master/src/modules/backends/web Does indeed show that it's using both.
- what browser do you use?
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Midori Browser completely based on Gecko
No, but they are planned and the ad blocker is built-in.
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Vivaldi 4.0: Vivaldi Translate and Vivaldi Mail, Calendar and Feed Reader
Thanks for the link! Browsing the source code, I love the author's devotion to make a code commit every single day: https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser/commits/170f36...
What are some alternatives?
qtwebengine - Qt WebEngine
WebKit - Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.
wry - Cross-platform WebView library in Rust for Tauri.
qtwebflix - A qt webengine program for netflix
adblock-rust - Brave's Rust-based adblock engine
stellarium - Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and macOS. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
kristall - Graphical small-internet client for windows, linux, MacOS X and BSDs. Supports gemini, http, https, gopher, finger.
falkon - Cross-platform Qt-based web browser
qt-tf-lite-example - Qt TensorFlow Lite example
qutebrowser - A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt.
crow-translate - A simple and lightweight translator that allows you to translate and speak text using Google, Yandex Bing, LibreTranslate and Lingva.