qutebrowser
A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt. (by qutebrowser)
gecko-dev
Read-only Git mirror of the Mercurial gecko repositories at https://hg.mozilla.org. How to contribute: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html (by mozilla)
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| qutebrowser | gecko-dev | |
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| 465 | 78 | |
| 9,344 | 3,105 | |
| 1.1% | 1.6% | |
| 9.7 | 10.0 | |
| 2 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| Python | ||
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
qutebrowser
Posts with mentions or reviews of qutebrowser.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-27.
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Rusty revenant Servo returns to render once more
I don'r know if this counts but there is also https://www.qutebrowser.org/ which uses qt webkit IIUC
- is qutebrowser compatible with ghosttext?
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Any workarounds to QtWebEngine's Not recognizing (virtual) microphones on pipewire?
I searched this issue and saw there were already open issues on github, and it is an upstream issue with QtWebEngine.
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no hint on drop down list
You can add [aria-haspopup] to your hints.selectors setting (from a config.py, see the configuration docs) to get the same effect.
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dark mode question
There is a small how-to here: Switching to Qt 6 by default · Issue #7202 · qutebrowser/qutebrowser
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How to save passwords in browser
There is a Qutebrowser user script for 1password: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/blob/master/misc/userscripts/qute-1pass. Disclaimer: I am the original author (it’s been refactored a lot by mkonig since I originally wrote it). My original version is here https://github.com/tomoakley/dotfiles/blob/master/qutebrowser/userscripts/1password
- How can I run qutebrowser with qt 6 on void linux?
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Help using qutebrowser on a mac
Glad to hear! You'd either add it to the userscripts folder in the repo, or add a link to the README about it and host it elsewhere.
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Wikipedia page previews not working with qutebrowser
It seems to work fine with Qt 6, so I guess this is just some missing feature on Qt 5. Maybe something changed on Wikipedia's side.
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Command crashed: See :process for details
Show PID in :process error message · qutebrowser/qutebrowser@c41f152
gecko-dev
Posts with mentions or reviews of gecko-dev.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-21.
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Making Web Component properties behave closer to the platform
You can see how Mozilla tests the compliance of their built-in elements in the Gecko repository (the ok and is assertions are defined in their SimpleTest testing framework). And here's the Web Platform Tests' reflection harness, with data for each built-in element in sibling files, that almost every browser pass.
- Widevine Content Decryption Module provided by Google Inc -- Never installs on any fresh Linux distro (see comments)
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Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years
The source is mirrored on GitHub here: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev
Code search is here: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/
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Firefox 113.0, New Features, Updates and Fixes
Yes. https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/tree/32c74afbb24dce4b5d...
- -moz-box and -moz-inline-box removed at v113
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Pinch Zoom with Mouse Wheel is too Slow = How to Adjust Zoom Increments?
aWheelInput.mDeltaY looks like the increment setting used for this https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/9033e3e1200acfd4b8f8ae024c215b99d12b97bdTried "mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_y" and "mousewheel.with_control.delta_multiplier_y" without much luck.It may have something to do with https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1138704 although this case is about pinch zoom emulation.
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Why does firefox (at least waterfox) not support H.265?
You could add the feature by writing code to support is - https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/index.html
- A Quarter Century of Mozilla
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Why is building a UI in Rust so hard?
I checked Firefox monorepo, it has over 4x more C++ than Rust.
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Fetched and build the code of the "release" but it's produced Nightly version
Are you leaving steps out or is your OP exhaustive? If you just straight up cloned release and that's it, start all over and follow https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/index.html for your OS
What are some alternatives?
When comparing qutebrowser and gecko-dev you can also consider the following projects:
Vieb - Vim Inspired Electron Browser - Vim bindings for the web by design
chromium - The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
python-adblock - Brave's adblock library in Python
WebKit - Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.
nyxt - Nyxt - the hacker's browser.
Skia - Skia is a complete 2D graphic library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images.
uBlock-for-firefox-legacy - uBlock Origin for Firefox legacy-based browsers.
brave-core - Core engine for the Brave browser for mobile and desktop. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues
firenvim - Embed Neovim in Chrome, Firefox & others.
ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
datastation - App to easily query, script, and visualize data from every database, file, and API.