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mahdi1234
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 Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 3:53 pm Post subject: Arora web browser replacement |
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hi there,
since Arora's development seems to be dead now for year and a half I'm looking for replacement i.e. webkit based browser with NO dependency on either KDE or Gnome which compilation is fast (no chromium please it takes hour to compile on my machine). Would you suggest some alternatives?
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thanks guys, for the moment luakit seems to be my favorite, but would check the others as well.
Is there any project based off qt (all those mentioned are gtk ones)? |
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http://www.qtweb.net/ - is the only other I know of, didn't use it as of yet, though.
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Hello,
I am also looking for a replacement of firefox, too heavy to compile for only a web browser.
As I have the full QT development suite, I was also looking on a qt-webkit based browser.
Arora crashes when I tries to load many tabs, even the git version. I will try to find some other solution.
Midori is an alternative, but I need to compile webkit-gtk.
Do there have usable, light, modern HTML / JavaScript / Flash browsers that work ?
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| www-client/rekonq is another non-arora qt-webkit based browser. i have no experience with it personally though. |
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XavierMiller
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Yep, but rekonq pushes a lot of KDE dependencies...
Arora depends on vanilla QT packages.
I am compiling midori, will see if it is more stable than arora.
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XavierMiller
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Midori is nice, I can live without Flash for some days 
But it uses 100% CPU when there is javascript...
It is thus useless 
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You can always use firefox-bin. If you don't want that either, then opera 
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| XavierMiller wrote: | | Is Opera Free and Open Source ? |
Nope, it's proprietary. It's still pretty good, though. |
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| If you don't need flash, there's always Dillo. |
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| There's another person still maintaining Arora here: https://github.com/mariuz/arora. Have you tried that? Doesn't really seem that active, but it's at least a bit newer than the main Arora code. |
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| XavierMiller wrote: | | Is Opera Free and Open Source ? |
It's free, not open source. It can use either of qt or gtk or their own toolkit for managing the browser and all the dialogs. It is fast, very feature-full, and is probably the most configurable browser around (that is, without needing 100s of addons).
And yes, I use opera (if it wasn't already obvious) 
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There is a new Qt WebKit browser: qupzilla. There is an ebuild in the qt overlay. Use gitorious to get it while overlays.gentoo.org is down.
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| yngwin wrote: | | There is a new Qt WebKit browser: qupzilla. There is an ebuild in the qt overlay. Use gitorious to get it while overlays.gentoo.org is down. |
OK, I will take a look. I am beginning to like WebKit, and QT-WebKit applications should be simple. This one is recent, I will test it
I tested dillo. OMG, NCSA Mosaic was better in 1992 !
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:35 pm Post subject: Re: Arora web browser replacement |
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| mahdi1234 wrote: | | (no chromium please it takes hour to compile on my machine). |
Admittedly, it takes a very long time, & gobbles up insane amounts of disk space and RAM during the compile, but if you can live with not rebuilding it every couple of days (well, yes, get used to not setting ~x86, or running emerge --sync every 20 minutes. The peace you reap is worth it), it is quite light-weight when running: it uses about ¼-½ the RAM of Opera, and an order of magnitude less CPU time. And Opera is already significantly lighter than firefox (though by no means lightweight, anymore). |
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| Gotta keep things in perspective here when considering all these "lightweight" browsers using webkit-gtk or qt-webkit, those libs themselves aren't exactly slim |
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