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by kronos29296 3177 days ago
An incredible project considering the average longevity of other vim key browsers and their limited communities. This one is loads better with a good renderer unlike most light weight browsers. (Qtwebengine which is just qt for blink because webkit is old now). It even has adblock.
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Note that QtWebKit is still being developed (and supported by qutebrowser), just not by the Qt project anymore: https://github.com/annulen/webkit/wiki

Also, QtWebEngine isn't just Blink. It's basically a stripped down version of Chromium as a library, also containing things like the network stack, the JS engine (V8), etc.

Not all systems support qtwebengine (by support I mean: have the current version of qt), and the developer still has qtwebkit as a fallback. Both implementations differ a lot, and I'm happily impressed to see support for both at the same time!
FWIW you'd still need Qt 5.7.1 and an updated fork of QtWebKit: https://github.com/annulen/webkit/wiki

However, there's usually an easy way to get an up to date Qt with QtWebEngine if you're on Python 3.5/3.6: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/blob/master/doc/i...

Yea! (typing this extremely helpful comment from qutebrowser now, as I have with 100% of my HN comments)