after the demise of XUL killed pentadactyl I really, really wanted to like qutebrowser - it gets a lot right that other keyboard focused browsers or extensions really don’t (I’m looking at you, vimium) - but as someone who frequently has hundreds of tabs open the memory and performance overhead of (I assume) python really just kills it for me.
Not really? I’ve been using qutebrowser for a long, long time and it’s never felt sluggish. Startup is not that great but that doesn’t matter since the browser is the OS these days. Most stuff is happening in the C/C++ space (QtWebEngine, Qt, SQLite) so it’s very snappy. If anything, QtWebEngine makes qutebrowser more speedy than other WebKit2GTK-based browsers
The bigger problem you may encounter is the lack of hardware accelerated video decoding, though I think there are workarounds. More is to be found in this issue and here. Not too much of a problem for me to be honest, it may eat your laptop battery though
I find learning the keybindings has sped up stuff a lot for me though, plus more control over tabs. There’s :tab-only which deletes all other tabs than the one focused, tab pinning, undoing closing tabs (more transparently than in other browsers) and a tab fuzzy finder that I have just discovered ;).
after the demise of XUL killed pentadactyl I really, really wanted to like qutebrowser - it gets a lot right that other keyboard focused browsers or extensions really don’t (I’m looking at you, vimium) - but as someone who frequently has hundreds of tabs open the memory and performance overhead of (I assume) python really just kills it for me.
Not really? I’ve been using qutebrowser for a long, long time and it’s never felt sluggish. Startup is not that great but that doesn’t matter since the browser is the OS these days. Most stuff is happening in the C/C++ space (QtWebEngine, Qt, SQLite) so it’s very snappy. If anything, QtWebEngine makes qutebrowser more speedy than other WebKit2GTK-based browsers
Maybe I’ll give it another shot! Last I used it was several years ago, so it’s possible the issues have been fixed since.
The bigger problem you may encounter is the lack of hardware accelerated video decoding, though I think there are workarounds. More is to be found in this issue and here. Not too much of a problem for me to be honest, it may eat your laptop battery though
I find learning the keybindings has sped up stuff a lot for me though, plus more control over tabs. There’s
:tab-onlywhich deletes all other tabs than the one focused, tab pinning, undoing closing tabs (more transparently than in other browsers) and a tab fuzzy finder that I have just discovered ;).