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Originally posted by peppercats View Postglad that webkit is being dropped, a lot of projects(otter, qupzilla, qutebrowser, etc) still use it as a default despite it having a ton of bugs/performance issues so hopefully they'll be forced to upgrade to webengine.
I'm simply not convinced of the value in generating a new web solution every couple of years.
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Originally posted by wizard69 View Post
The first thing that comes to mind is what software doesn't have bugs, especially complex web engines. The second thing that comes to mind if why not work to improve the WebKit derivative?
I'm simply not convinced of the value in generating a new web solution every couple of years.
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Originally posted by giucamit's basically a Blink wrapper. And the Qt Project doesn't have the manpower to maintain something as big as webkit.
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Originally posted by curaga View PostAs if there was a big difference in the amount of code in a Blink wrapper vs a Webkit wrapper. It's pure politics.
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Is Qt being sold out to chrome? I am so glad I am not a Web browser dev. Knowing how many work arounds in Web programming and how browsers are forced to read dirty code makes me not surprised how bloated the big browsers are. I am all for less bloat but it almost always means a loss somewhere else.
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Originally posted by b15hop View PostIs Qt being sold out to chrome?
Originally posted by b15hop View PostI am so glad I am not a Web browser dev. Knowing how many work arounds in Web programming and how browsers are forced to read dirty code makes me not surprised how bloated the big browsers are. I am all for less bloat but it almost always means a loss somewhere else.
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Originally posted by The Compiler View Post
What makes you think so?
I'd always take usability and stability over bloatedness. With web browsers, as you said, they have to have some level of bloat to work on today's web.
Yes features and stability are the most important. I feel that speed comes as a result of clean code anyway since you know less is more.
For me both waterfox and chrome are bloated. I see them chew up 4GB of ram and wonder how? Sure I have a lot of tabs open but 4GB for a Web browser seems excessive. I miss the days when Firefox was a fresh browser that ran on nothing. Irony is that even coming this far I find chrome will crash on webgl often. So I went back to waterfox. I will give your browser a shot and see how it goes.
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