On 7 August 2016 at 08:35, Rex Dieter wrote:
In my prior post, I included chromium in the list of browser
candidates. If
you're not familiar with it, it is essentially a free version of google
chrome that recently made it's way into fedora package repositories.
Advantages and features include:
* based on same rendering engine as qtwebengine (that qupzilla uses)
* has active, well-supported upstream
* some kde integration: kde file dialogs, kwallet for secrets
* supports most chrome addons/extensions
Disadvantages include:
* pretty new to fedora (only a few weeks)
* packaging/buildsystem is... messy and fragile (not unique here,
qtwebengine suffers similarly but less so)
* not 100% native (like qupzilla)
Sorry for being so late into the discussion. I have been using
Chromium and Firefox regularly (but I didn't try anything else
lately).
I find the default settings of most software suboptimal, so I care
mostly about configuration options.
The biggest disadvantage of Chromium to me is, it is not as
configurable as Firefox. I have a feeling that the lack of
configurability of Chromium makes it orthogonal to the KDE philosophy,
e.g.
- one cannot move the navigation icons
- one cannot add a search bar, or
- one cannot even make the tabs go below the address bar (The times we
need vertical estate with 800x600 screens is way over)
That said I would be happy to try other alternatives, as long as they
are configurable.
Thanks,
Orcan