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The-Compiler

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About The-Compiler

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #42385754

    Ah, Verso looks nice and active, that wasn't on my radar. I kind of lost hope after a lot of embedding tracking issues and meta-issues over the years (the ones you linked is the th…

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    Comment #42381752

    I had no idea that existed, that's pretty cool!

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    Comment #42375775

    I might experiment with it if they improve their embedding story, and if someone (not me) makes it work with Python and Qt. Sadly, https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/27579 has b…

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    Comment #42374564

    Huh‽ While running with QtWebKit still happens to work, qutebrowser has supported QtWebEngine (based on Chromium) since 2016 or so, and it's been the default since v1.0.0 in 2017. …

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    Comment #42365074

    RTL support should be as good as Chromium's for web contents (as QtWebEngine is based on Chromium), and as good as Qt's for the UI. Admittedly I never tested, but if you notice som…

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    Comment #42365069

    Note that on Linux, the browser engine (QtWebEngine) is installed/updated separately from qutebrowser. They have a new feature release (updating to a new Chromium baseline) every 6…

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    Comment #42365020

    Thanks for the nice words! :)

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    Comment #42365014

    Ah, I see. That's not due to the Chromium version though, it's because the Chromium that comes with Qt releases (which is what's shipped in qutebrowser releases) is built without p…

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    Comment #42361407

    > I’ve stopped using qutebrowser because it has some limitations due to be a bit behind on the web engine, which leads to problems with some sites. Assuming you're on Linux, that's…

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    Comment #42361393

    FWIW there are Windows/macOS builds too.

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    Comment #42361388

    The devtools let you do that FWIW.

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    Comment #42361383

    See https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/8389 - unfortunately there's a lot of stupid false-positives especially with PyInstaller (packaging a Python application into …

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    Comment #41915901

    You might like Firenvim or Wasavi: https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi qutebrowser (and some others) also allow spawning vim from inside a text …

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    Comment #41915848

    Nyxt[1] caters to emacs people (being extensible in Lisp and all that), but personally I'm somewhat wary of it: They handled a critical security vulnerability[2] quite badly a few …

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    Comment #41913371

    DRM should work just fine via Widevine if you have a Qt build with proprietary codec support, and you have an appropriate version of Widevine available. See https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/…

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    Comment #41913289

    The majority of security issues in browsers is in the more low-level components (rendering engine, sandbox, network stack, JS runtime, etc.). None of those small browsers implement…

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    Comment #41327891

    qutebrowser author here, use Dodo and can confirm it's basically the qutebrowser of mail clients :) Development is slow but not unmaintained. The author comes back every month or s…

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    Comment #37645502

    Chromium-based (QtWebEngine) would probably be more accurate. While Blink technically was WebKit at some point, it's been quite a while. (Also you can still technically run qutebro…

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    Comment #32106534

    qutebrowser used to use QtWebKit back in 2013, but doesn't use it anymore by default ever since its v1.0.0 release in 2017. Ever since then, it uses QtWebEngine, which is based on …

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    Comment #32106518

    FWIW qutebrowser can disable JS (and also many other settings) per domain, though not on an as finegrained level as uMatrix. However, there is this: https://gitlab.com/jgkamat/jmat…

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    Comment #30847001

    See https://www.reddit.com/r/qutebrowser/comments/tpuqj5/qutebro... - it seems to be, unfortunately.

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    Comment #30846993

    See https://www.reddit.com/r/qutebrowser/comments/tpuqj5/qutebro... - it seems to be, unfortunately.

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    Comment #30377801

    > Qutebrowser would become my daily driver whenever they implement extension support. If you're thinking of WebExtensions (i.e. Chrome/Firefox/... extensions), that's unlikely to h…

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    Comment #28785988

    FWIW you can donate (via my GitHub Sponsors profile), I'd rather not force people to pay for it, though ;) One thing I would perhaps consider is having more "proper" releases for m…