Otter Browser

I&#x27;m not well versed enough in the Browser Wars to say one thing or another about except this:<p>I like the name.<p>It lends it self to saying &quot;I use the <i>Otter</i> browser&quot; which is not just a great pun but the pun on &#x27;other&#x27; defines what Otter is, the &quot;other&quot; browser. The web needs independent browsers. We need to get rid of the idea that websites are designed to work on any one technology. They should work on any browser that supports the standards.

Really disappointed by the marketing of these projects. No information whatsoever regarding why I should both download and use the browser. I understand that&#x27;s something related to Opera revamping, but I just don&#x27;t understand why such projects don&#x27;t invest 5 minutes of time explaining features in plain English, and relegate everything to a niche. What a pity.

Past related threads:<p><i>Otter Browser – Aims to recreate the best aspects of classic Opera UI using Qt5</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18830430" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18830430</a> - Jan 2019 (47 comments)<p><i>Opera 12.15 source code</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13417307" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13417307</a> - Jan 2017 (86 comments)

This seems actually viable. And those weekly updates let us know &quot;It&#x27;s Alive!!&quot; not some zombie. I&#x27;m going to make an effort on using this.<p>I&#x27;m currently using a Firefox fork but the maintenance is a little rough and I get conflicts with upstream sometimes that are hard (for me) to resolve.

It&#x27;s in the Homebrew repo, so installing is as easy as<p><pre><code> $ brew install otter-browser </code></pre> What&#x27;s also interesting, is that the tab-close button is on the <i>left</i> of the tab, like every other macOS application. Other browsers (Chrome, Firefox) put it stubbornly on the right.

I&#x27;m all for unmonopolising the web browser but Otter seems to have major stability issues. I&#x27;m on macOS 10.15.7. Doing a DDG search consistently crashes Otter. Would liked to have given it a go but I&#x27;ll stick with Firefox.

Seems to be a nice UI around QtWebEngine which is based on WebKit or blink (chromium), with quite a solid effort through the years.

Is it safe to trust binaries hosted from sourceforge? Didn&#x27;t they used to host modified binaries &#x2F; packages with malware?

Man, those 7 bugs must be tough. ;)

It seems pretty similar to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.falkon.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.falkon.org&#x2F;</a> (which is the successor of Qupzilla, i.e. a lightweight browser based on QT5+Blink, already natively integrating an ad-blocker, vertical tabs, and a lot of useful stuffs)

Logo could do with a makeover. Possibility of a really nice cute graphic. Firefox seem to have repeatedly missed that opportunity.<p>And the O is a bit reminiscent of Opera. ( I read it hopes to ape some of the better bits of Opera&#x27;s past.)<p>Certainly space for an innovative - I&#x27;m in the driving seat type browser. The space is really lack-lustre, and not in a good way.

If I were building a new browser, priority 0 would be uBlock Origin support with a front-page guarantee it will never be neutered by any future &quot;standards&quot;.

I like this browser because it&#x27;s one of the better options that runs on Haiku OS!

Gotta love the webpage with the commit&#x2F;issues updates every week.<p>Well done boys.

Welcome to the otter side

So does this still use Presto, and is there any forward movement on it?