What does Zig Forums think about qutebrowser and QtWebEngine?
I started using qutebrowser a couple of days ago, and it's so much nicer than Firefox and forks. It uses QtWebEngine in the back end, it's much more responsive and with the Vi-like keybinds, it's such a pleasure to use. It uses less RAM as well (with the same 8ch tabs open at least).
The only problem is the lack of a proper ad blocker (it uses a hosts file like method atm) and umatrix/noscript like functionality atm. Suppose we'll have to wait until the extension API is done github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/30
What are your thoughts on security and privacy of qutebrowser/QtWebEngine?
QtWebEngine is ripped from Chromium after all. wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine says Is that enough for it to be trustworthy? Web engines are huge, surely there's a chance that within millions upon millions of lines of code, some malicious Google code remains in the web engine? And why the fuck does it depend on dbus ffs?
In any case, qutebrowser really does seem like the only fine browser out there. How come it's not talked about more?
I use it. The bad are Python (the parts made with it can be slow), tranny CoCk, lack of folders in bookmarks, Qtwebengine being the most horrible package to compile and developement being quite dead. I used to think the same thing, but it works. Well, there's per-domain settings, but it's not the same, I agree. >Suppose we'll have to wait until the extension API is done github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/30 Good luck. >wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine says Use netstat. Because they didn't strip it out. At least, it doesn't depend on it at runtime.
If only netsurf wasn't dead.
Charles Gray
I thought as much after seeing the name. I started learning QT recently. looks interesting, will check it out.
Jordan Morris
I have ran netstat while qutebrowser was running and I only found some amazon aws adresses that redirect to DuckDuckGo, qutebrowser's default search engine. Pic related
It's better than pozfox and jewgle chrome it's best to roll your own using these massive libraries, either with C++/QT if you love bloat and the inferior C++ language, or GNU C/webkit if you prefer slightly less bloat and a programming language for white people.
Blake Thompson
so qutebrowser, more like cuckbrowser
Xavier Rodriguez
It has a lot of crappy dependencies. It crashes all the time and has zero security. There are crash reports sending a lot of information about you. The author is a student developing it during holidays and will most probably abandon the whole thing when the real life starts happen to him. German guys can do things, but they always add some weird unnecessary shit in addition.
The only browser with real privacy is Tor Browser.
Christian Powell
Everything
said. I use it as my default browser. This is particularly noticeable whenever you try to use hints on a large page (some API docs I've read are just dumped into a single file and everything is hyperlinked. If I try to use hints on these pages that particular tab just freezes and dies). Also as far as I've seen the python configuration thing is a meme and it doesn't really give you that much control over the browser anyways. I have to make modifications to my make.conf to actually get this horrifying thing to compile; as a result I put updating it off as long as possible.
nice bait
Oliver Price
If you use your tabs like they're bookmarks, you best hope you have over 8 gigs of RAM. Also, compiling the fucking engine is a fucking disaster if you have less than 16 gigs. It's a fucking shame the browser itself is so nice to use.
