A Qt5 Opera-Inspired Browser To Ring In The New Year

[teresaejunior]

hellofu, it is planned too (it is listed as grouping in TODO), but almost for sure will require custom drawing of tab bar widget which is pretty complex (at least when tab rearranging is enabled), but I have few ideas how to implement it (the only hard part is to properly draw grouped tabs) while not reimplementing whole drawing procedure. ;-)

This is awesome news! One of the main reasons I didn't leave Opera 12 yet was the poor tab management all other browsers offer.

Tab stacks are mostly useful with the extensions AutoStack and Tab Accordion, though.

AutoStack for grouping tabs automatically by opening all child tabs on the same stack: https://addons.opera.com/extensions/details/autostack/
Tab Accordion for automatically expanding the active stack and contracting all others: https://addons.opera.com/extensions/...tab-accordion/
I really hope such features may be implemented as well!

[Emdek]

The Solutor, yeah, both advanced Opera features and these developed by others since it regressed. Also I have few aces in my sleeve, in private TODOs. ;-)
All that makes sense for power users (but not all enabled by default).

BTW, am I correctly assuming that this was your comment (I'm tracking comments scattered over Internet ;-))?

Happy new year.

2014 starts with a little hope from an unespected direction.

http://otter-browser.org

Looks like there is still intelligent life on the earth

New "Opera" versions are really so bad? I haven't tried to install them when I've seen initial news (I was following desktop team blog, and was already annoyed by long battles to regain such small but nice features like favicons in drop down menu of address field), also they no longer support my platform. :-P

And note for those experiencing crashes, please refer to this ticket, this might be upstream Flash issue plaguing some users. You can try to disable plugins for now, that comment describes how to do that.

And again big thanks for Phoronix for covering this, I've sent note only here and it propagated very nicely. :-)

[The Solutor]

Phoronix: A Qt5 Opera-Inspired Browser To Ring In The New Year

Launching on 1 January 2014 to kick-off the new year is yet another open-source web-browser. What this latest open-source browser is about is having a new Qt5-based web-browser for power users that's inspired by the old Opera browser...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTU1NjU

Hi.

After being a long time lurker here on phoronix, I finally decided to jump in just to say thank You for this project.

I believe I can speak in the name of any user disgusted by the U turn made from the actual Opera management, and in the name of anyone still believes in a free Internet, managed by the user's needs and not from the ones of few big brothers.

I hope in a fast development, in a great support to the project, in short in a great success.

I hope you will prioritize the development of the functions missing in any other browser aside the real good old Opera, Mail/Rss client above anything else.

Have a nice and productive 2014 !

The Solutor

[Saverios]

Yes that's flash's problem, as I said in the parenthesis in my last reply, but I haven't encountered it for months.

It may be flash's problem, but the same videos played fine in opera with the same flash library, so chromium must have something to do with it as well!

After saving the file, you can just press the file's box on the download bar, and chrome will open your file with the default application you set. You don't really have to locate it manually. Also beside the box of the file there is a dropdown menu, in it there are "Open file" "Show in folder"(which opens the folder it's located with your default file explorer) and an option to automatically open any file of its MIME type as download completes (which is unrecommended due to security reasons). If you happen to close the download bar, then just press Ctrl+J to open the download page in a new tab. In the download page, clicking the file opens it, and there's also a "show in folder" button below each item.

I know it is easy to locate the file, but you still have to go through the process of cleaning up your downloads folder in order to get rid of the temporary files I opened that would otherwise be automatically stored in my ram-assigned /tmp or whatnot. It's driving my OCD nuts!

Extensions are better in that each extension can have its very specific job and thus do things better, and they're modular too. However since they rely on third-party extensions, it might not be as good as browser-integrated features. IMHO it's a pro as well as a con so there's no saying if it's better or worse to use extensions. Do mind that Google does release official extensions though. They even released an input method extension.

I don't mind having extensions around, although there is always the security risk, and modularity is a big plus in order to keep the browser light and fast. I am merely pointing out that many of the features present in opera by default were implemented in other browsers as extensions because they were so useful. To me, that is a sign that Opera was ahead of its time in terms of user friendliness.

And please keep in mind that I have nothing against Chromium per se, I think it's way better than Firefox in Linux. It's just that I was using Opera for many years and I was a big fan of all the cool features that Opera introduced and others copied.

[Emdek]

hellofu, it is planned too (it is listed as grouping in TODO), but almost for sure will require custom drawing of tab bar widget which is pretty complex (at least when tab rearranging is enabled), but I have few ideas how to implement it (the only hard part is to properly draw grouped tabs) while not reimplementing whole drawing procedure. ;-)

[hellofu]

Tab stacking please. i have not seen any one do tab stacking/management like opera 12.

[kokoko3k]

Firefox is my main browser, but it lacks the smoothness given by mobile browsers or steam in big picture mode or opera mobile emulator, when zooming and scrolling the pages.
That smooth feeling is missing on any desktop browser i tried by now.

[liam]

it would be *REALLY* cool if it could render the page into an opengl surface, just like the mobile browsers out there (opera mobile for desktop did it) or steam browser in big picture mode

Epiphany uses ogl surfaces via clutter iirc.
Also ff can perform accelerated compositing via ogl by toggling the layers key.
Frankly I don't see what problems people are having with ff. From what I've been told by packagers chromium is a mess so I can understand avoiding that.

[curaga]

Heh, someone beat me to it. Good luck to the project Emdek.

I'm a lost Opera user too, abandoned in the Blink move. No other browser can match it: Chrom* have privacy, UI and behavior issues, Firefox UI and behavior, smaller alternatives don't really work out for me.

I think I'll still be doing my own clone, if for nothing else just because I haven't hacked webkit yet

[tom.higgy]

This is easily the best thing I've read about today. I've stuck with Opera 12.1 and started using Chromium more frequently. No browser quite suits my needs like O12 but there's a good reason why they decided to use a different engine.

Good luck with the project, Emdek.