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Qutebrowser uses webengine.

by Evidlo 6y ago

curlypaul924 6y ago
Am I misunderstanding what webkit is? QtWebEngine uses chromium, but I thought that necessarily implied a webkit derivative (blink).
- cxr 6y ago
  > Am I misunderstanding what webkit is? Yes.
- toyg 6y ago
  blink is basically a fork of a fork of webkit (which is itself a fork of KHTML). It's in the same family, but different.
  - abrowne 6y ago
    An ostrich and a woodpecker are similar in a lot of ways, both birds descending from a common ancestor. But I don't think you'd confuse them.
    - curlypaul924 6y ago
      My question still stands. If webkit is a bird and gecko is a reptile, then why are there (relatively) so few reptile browsers? Is it easier to embed engines from the webkit family, or are they popular because chrome and safari are popular?
      - toyg 6y ago
        Largely the former. The efforts to make Gecko easily embeddable, started some 15 years ago, have long floundered.
pbronez 6y ago
The Qutebrowser dependency list says it can use either QtWebEngine (Chromium) or QtWebKit (WebKit): > QtWebEngine, or alternatively QtWebKit (5.212) - This is not recommended due to known security issues in QtWebKit, you most likely want to use qutebrowser with the default QtWebEngine backend (based on Chromium) instead. Quoting the QtWebKit releases page: [The latest QtWebKit] release is based on [an] old WebKit revision with known unpatched vulnerabilities. Please use it carefully and avoid visiting untrusted websites and using it for transmission of sensitive data. https://www.qutebrowser.org/ https://www.qutebrowser.org/ To use Geko (or hopefully Quantum) with Qutebrowser you would need a nice QT integration. Poking around a bit, it looks like Mozilla and Nokia did some work on this in 2008, but it doesn’t seem it ever got out of beta: http://browser.garage.maemo.org/news/10/ http://browser.garage.maemo.org/news/10/
- The-Compiler 6y ago
  I had hoped for Servo to fill that gap at some point, but so far that hasn't happened yet: https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/27579 https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/27579 Another possibility is for Geckoview to be ported to Desktop platforms some day: https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/ https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/ - something the people behind Tridactyl would like to happen: https://tridactyl.xyz/ideas/#port-geckoview-to-x86_64 https://tridactyl.xyz/ideas/#port-geckoview-to-x86_64

Qutebrowser uses webengine.

by Evidlo 6y ago

Qutebrowser uses webengine.

Am I misunderstanding what webkit is? QtWebEngine uses chromium, but I thought that necessarily implied a webkit derivative (blink).

cxr 6y ago
> Am I misunderstanding what webkit is? Yes.
toyg 6y ago
blink is basically a fork of a fork of webkit (which is itself a fork of KHTML). It's in the same family, but different.
- abrowne 6y ago
  An ostrich and a woodpecker are similar in a lot of ways, both birds descending from a common ancestor. But I don't think you'd confuse them.
  - curlypaul924 6y ago
    My question still stands. If webkit is a bird and gecko is a reptile, then why are there (relatively) so few reptile browsers? Is it easier to embed engines from the webkit family, or are they popular because chrome and safari are popular?
    - toyg 6y ago
      Largely the former. The efforts to make Gecko easily embeddable, started some 15 years ago, have long floundered.

pbronez 6y ago

The Qutebrowser dependency list says it can use either QtWebEngine (Chromium) or QtWebKit (WebKit): > QtWebEngine, or alternatively QtWebKit (5.212) - This is not recommended due to known security issues in QtWebKit, you most likely want to use qutebrowser with the default QtWebEngine backend (based on Chromium) instead. Quoting the QtWebKit releases page: [The latest QtWebKit] release is based on [an] old WebKit revision with known unpatched vulnerabilities. Please use it carefully and avoid visiting untrusted websites and using it for transmission of sensitive data. https://www.qutebrowser.org/ https://www.qutebrowser.org/ To use Geko (or hopefully Quantum) with Qutebrowser you would need a nice QT integration. Poking around a bit, it looks like Mozilla and Nokia did some work on this in 2008, but it doesn’t seem it ever got out of beta: http://browser.garage.maemo.org/news/10/ http://browser.garage.maemo.org/news/10/

The-Compiler 6y ago
I had hoped for Servo to fill that gap at some point, but so far that hasn't happened yet: https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/27579 https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/27579 Another possibility is for Geckoview to be ported to Desktop platforms some day: https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/ https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/ - something the people behind Tridactyl would like to happen: https://tridactyl.xyz/ideas/#port-geckoview-to-x86_64 https://tridactyl.xyz/ideas/#port-geckoview-to-x86_64