Today is the day of web browsers. Viewing comments in my previous article about Leon, the project's new web browser evolve OS, I started looking for a web browser that was not GTK, and that it was not Arora, Qupzilla o rekonq. These are the results:
Otter Browser, Opera on Qt5
Under the slogan Web browser controlled by the user, not vice-versa (A web browser controlled by the user and not vice versa) I found OtterBrowser, whose main characteristic is that copy the old Opera interface perfectly.
I must say before proceeding that it still has a lot of work ahead, because in the short time that I have tried it I have come across some things, such as that it does not detect the accents after a while and that it was not able to load the data in the files window when trying to upload an image for this article, as it returned the error:
I will try to report it although you can still give it a eye to all from your developer to see what's new that you have included or will include in future releases. This application receives regular updates, so improvements will be added at a rapid pace.
Otter Browser Features
Well, let's get to the heart of the matter and see some screenshots of what it looks like. Otter installed and running. The first thing you will see is that when you put the cursor over a tab, it shows us a preview of its content.
The download manager is identical to the old Opera:
The preferences are also identical:
As you can see, just like the old man Opera, we can have Otter minimized to the system tray and enable or disable this option in the Preferences.
The package is available from AUR in ArchLinux, and for openSUSE. Official packages are available for Ubuntu at Launchpad. So to those who miss the old Opera, they already have one more alternative 😀
The alternative is very interesting. Hopefully he will mature a lot and not stay on a promise like Rekonq, Arora, or Qupzilla.
I like the idea of them making a clone of the old Opera.
Development is quite active, so if we are lucky we can count on Otter for a good time.
Really unknown to me.
Thanks for the input, elav.
And there is more, just that I could not install them to test them hehe
hello, could you tell how to install it in detail in elementary os, thank you very much !.
To install it in elementary os, it is very simple. You just have to uninstall elementary os, and install debian or ubuntu or archlinux. Then you can install the browser. 🙂
The tab preview thing can be achieved in Firefox with the Tab Scope plugin. Will Firefox one day stop relying on GTK? it would be great 😛.
By the way, the browsers that you show are very cool, but no matter how much I try them, I can't divorce my Firefox.
Firefox is much more complete, you have many years of development, but Otter is not bad at all.
Hello,
A few questions:
1- What typeface do you use in your KDE and how do you make it look so sharp? I can't do something that good on Xubuntu.
2- What set of icons do you use in KDE?
3- How did you manage to have the panel below integrated to Winbugs 7 / Unity?
Thank you!!
Hello Rafael:
1- Normally I use Droid Sans or Aller, but in this case it is Tahoma (yes, Tahoma). To change the smoothing of fonts we have several posts in DesdeLinux. But this should help you:
https://blog.desdelinux.net/suavizado-de-fuentes-en-kde-xfce-y-otros/
2- A theme called Emerald
3- It is the KDE panel of all the life, what happens that you remove the List of Windows and you put: List of Windows only Icons.
regards