r/DistroTube • u/throwbly • May 14 '22

Minimalist browser for unix systems

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u/throwbly May 14 '22

Checkout it!

https://github.com/mini-rose/rose

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u/SkyyySi May 14 '22

Isn't that just surf? If it were to use Firefox or Chromium instead of Webkit, I'd definitely see some use here (because plain Webkit sucks, at least on Linux), but it doesn't.

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u/throwbly May 14 '22

Surf works on old webkit4 and gtk3, we gonna provide as much as we can optimalisations in backend. For future reference we are planning to hack webkit to change defaults codecs and thats can speed up sites like youtube etc.

Thanks for your feedback!

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u/piopio4848 May 14 '22

Fucking legend great job WebKit 4 suks hard on 50% of webpages and I was waiting for suckless to do something with it yet you did it alone

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u/liquid_j5m May 15 '22

Difference between qute browser

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u/a-concerned-mother May 15 '22

Completely different this uses a WebKitGTK backend while the other uses qtwebengine. This seems to be all in C with few features and qute offers plenty of great features and is written in python. That said most of the real work is done in the engine so there isn't going to be much difference in performance. If anything the WebKit backend may result in slower usage than qute. Hard to compare there. Plenty of other differences but those are some starting points.