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@ -28,16 +28,20 @@ What's wrong with link:http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/[dwb]/link:http://sourcef
https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-gtk/2014-March/001821.html[deprecated], https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-gtk/2014-March/001821.html[deprecated],
these bugs are never going to be fixed. these bugs are never going to be fixed.
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The newer http://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkit2gtk/stable/index.html[WebKit2 When qutebrowser was created, the newer
API] seems to lack basic features like proxy support, and almost no projects http://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkit2gtk/stable/index.html[WebKit2 API] lacked
seem to have started porting to WebKit2 (I only know of basic features like proxy support, and almost no projects have started porting
http://www.uzbl.org/[uzbl]). to WebKit2. In the meantime, this situation has improved a bit, but there are
stil only a few project which have some kind of WebKit2 support (see the
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser#similar-projects[list of
alternatives]).
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qutebrowser uses http://qt.io/[Qt] and http://wiki.qt.io/QtWebKit[QtWebKit] qutebrowser uses http://qt.io/[Qt] and
instead, which suffers from far less such crashes. It might switch to http://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine[QtWebEngine] by default (and supports
http://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine[QtWebEngine] in the future, which is based on http://wiki.qt.io/QtWebKit[QtWebKit] optionally). QtWebEngine is based on
Google's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(layout_engine)[Blink] rendering Google's https://www.chromium.org/Home[Chromium]. With an up-to-date Qt, it has
engine. much more man-power behind it than WebKitGTK+ has, and thus supports more modern
web features - it's also arguably more secure.
What's wrong with https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/[Firefox] and link:http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/[Pentadactyl]/link:http://www.vimperator.org/vimperator[Vimperator]?:: What's wrong with https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/[Firefox] and link:http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/[Pentadactyl]/link:http://www.vimperator.org/vimperator[Vimperator]?::
Firefox likes to break compatibility with addons on each upgrade, gets Firefox likes to break compatibility with addons on each upgrade, gets