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There is also Vimb [1], which is another keyboard-focused web browser. It also runs on GTK+ and WebKit2. How does Next compare to it? (Except for obviously bein
by gnull 8y ago
There is also Vimb [1], which is another keyboard-focused web browser. It also runs on GTK+ and WebKit2. How does Next compare to it? (Except for obviously being more suited for scripting and having Lisp support.)
When I was trying Vimb for myself it suffered from frequent WebKit («WebView crashed») crashes. And also its performance seemed to me worse than, say, latest Firefox Quantum or Chromium — it was consuming much more RAM when using many tabs or opening extremely large web pages (few megabytes of html with many pictures in it). Although it starts a lot faster than the latter two.
How does Next compare to Vimb with respect to performance and crashes?
[1]: https://fanglingsu.github.io/vimb/ https://fanglingsu.github.io/vimb/
EDIT1: minor change of wording
- jmercouris 8y agoHi, thank you for your interest! I've never used VIMB, but I guess it is subject to the webkit port, since on Linux you more or less only have Webkit2gtk+ your experience should be roughly the same. There seems to be a lot of demand for a blink/chromium port, and while I am personally strongly against blink/chromium, we may produce a port, or perhaps a quantum port if that is at all possible.