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I used to use Firefox for Tree Style Tabs and Pentadactyl, but I recently switched over to Qutebrowser[0] and I'm loving it. It has Pentadactyl-inspired keybind
by mafuyu 10y ago
I used to use Firefox for Tree Style Tabs and Pentadactyl, but I recently switched over to Qutebrowser[0] and I'm loving it. It has Pentadactyl-inspired keybinds, vertical tabs (no tree-style just yet, though), and it's _way_ snappier than FF. It's refreshing to use after all the bloat that Firefox has acquired and the slow-to-nonexistent development of Pentadactyl. (Not to mention the existential crisis of the FF WebExtensions switch.)
There are some sore points revolving around the use of QtWebKit engine, but they're mostly workable. I set the user-agent to either FF or Chrome to get some sites to not redirect me to their compatibility site, and YouTube support isn't great (no fullscreen). I just set up a keybind to send the current url to youtube-dl/MPC-HC and it works fine.
[0] https://qutebrowser.org/index.html https://qutebrowser.org/index.html
- lucb1e 10y agoI tried Qute in the early, early days, then happened to sit in on a CCC lightning talk (completely coincidental) a few days later where the creator spoke about it. I really liked the concept but it wasn't quite there yet, and I didn't have the means (time, skill) to help. Checking, it still doesn't seem to be in the Debian Stretch repositories (which is a major indicator of maturity and support to me). Is the project active or is it still a hobby project from one core developer? There are recent releases but it's hard to tell how significant releases are when almost every change log line is something like "New :debug-log-filter command".
- mafuyu 10y agoIt's still mainly the core developer, with PRs and issues coming in from other contributors. Development seems to be pretty active and responsive, though. I think it's in a very usable form at this point.