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patrickkidger | 1 year ago

So why this over qutebrowser [1] ? (Which has been my go-to keyboard-first browser for a long time.) This isn't mentioned in the FAQ despite I think being the natural comparison.

[1] https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser

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BoingBoomTschak|1 year ago

As someone who used Qute for a long time:

* Python is much slower than SBCL (yes, even if rendering is done by Blink); including the lack of threading

* Bookmarks are pure crap, they don't have tags nor directories to sort them better

* Less hackable (e.g. something that should be possible in Nyxt: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/3933)

* Massive gaps: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/2328 https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/2492 https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/5731 (!!!)

* Per domain/URL settings never progressed further than the initial batch of properties: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/3636

* Adblocking is better than hostfile but still missing a lot compared to uBlock (https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/6480). No script blocking matrix like uBlock "advanced mode" at all.

My impression is that it has been stuck in bug fixing/dependency churn for a long time now. Switched to Firefox while waiting for Nyxt to be usable (apparently, Nyxt 4 will be it).

rnhmjoj|1 year ago

> My impression is that it has been stuck in bug fixing/dependency churn for a long time now

I don't think it's just your impression: it's exactly what happened. Depending on Qt for the rendering engine means the browser has been tied to the painfully long release cycle of the whole of Qt. Quickly fixing bugs or implementing new features is hard, they have to hack around limited APIs, beg for more and continually fix new bugs introduced by upstream (both Qt and google).

wkat4242|1 year ago

Nyxt does have ublock origin? It would be a must have for me too.

treeshateorcs|1 year ago

you can redirect in QB. this is how i do it (from my config):

    def redirect(info: interceptor.Request):
        if info.request_url.host() == "en.m.wikipedia.org":
            new_url = QUrl(info.request_url)
            new_url.setHost("en.wikipedia.org")
            try:
                info.redirect(new_url)
            except interceptors.RedirectFailedException:
                pass

anonzzzies|1 year ago

For me; CL/SBCL. It is more fun for me.

manx|1 year ago

I loved qutebrowser, but many pages didn't work because of the rendering engine. That made me go back to Firefox.

rnhmjoj|1 year ago

The engine is QtWebEngine, which is essentially Chromium without the proprietary stuff. It may a be a bit outdated, but I've never seen a page not being rendered properly. Maybe you used it way back when the default engine was QtWebKit.

rgreekguy|1 year ago

Also no Python, all Common Lisp.