qtwebengine based browser

potuz · Guru Joined: 30 Jan 2010 Posts: 378

One of the few "bad" experiences I have with Gentoo is with compiling webengines. They are all monstruous beasts that take over my laptop for a few hours. I am forced to compile webkit-gtk because of gnucash and qtwebengine because of GoldenCheetah. My webbrowser of choice has been Firefox which uses yet another webengine. I've tried for a while to replace Firefox with another web-browser because of this. A webkit-gtk-browser is a no-go cause this will require webkit2 (which is different than the engine I am forced to have because of gnucash).

Now that I have qtwebengine in my system, I might as well use it to power my browser. I have found qupzilla, is there any other browser out there based on qtwebengine?

roki942 · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2016 8:02 pm Post subject:

Yesterday I came across qutebrowser which is in portage.

white_tiger · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2011 Posts: 40

If you are in the unstable tree you can try Otter, (aka otter-browser).

But did you tried Qupzilla, because you ask for another one and I am currious why that is. Since I am also looking for a qtwebengine based browser and Qupzilla lookes okay to me at first glance and it is in the stable tree.

potuz · Guru Joined: 30 Jan 2010 Posts: 378

both qutebrowser and otter were based on qtwebkit, I didn't know that they had been already ported to qtwebengine. It seems otter has a backend ready, it's not clear to me how experimental is qutebrowser, I'll try them, thanks for the feedback.

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8935

It seems to me that qupzilla is the most straightforward qtwebengine browser at this point.