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The browser who says "ni"

Sunday 16 August 2009, by Toots

In the quest for the minimal functional browser, my friend MrPingouin pointed me to the test-browser from the libwebkit-dev package.

Just run /usr/lib/webkit-1.0-2/libexec/GtkLauncher and you will see.. It actually render much better than arora in the (few) places where arora fails, and includes javascript and flash !

I love the minimality, although there are no tabs, perhaps the only missing feature.. Anyone knows about a browser made from this one ???

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  • The browser who says "ni" Le 16 August 2009 à 20:21 , by azhag

    Anyone knows about a browser made from this one ???

    How about Midori?

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  • The browser who says "ni" Le 16 August 2009 à 20:26 , by plaes

    You can check out either Epiphany or Midori...

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  • The browser who says "ni" Le 16 August 2009 à 20:31 , by davrieb

    Are you aware of uzbl http://www.uzbl.org/? I haven’t tried it yet, but I remember reading an article about it. Maybe this comes close to what you are looking for.

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  • The browser who says "ni" Le 16 August 2009 à 22:37 , by Benjamin Meyer

    Do you happen to have a list of the pages that Arora was rendering incorrectly so that we can look at fixing them?

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    • The browser who says "ni" Le 17 August 2009 à 02:05 , by Toots

      Hi !

      Well there are not so many of them. I had several issues with facebook, un particular the chat has a strange artifact (two time the input field).

      Also noticable is the fact that the street view in google map claims that flash is not the correct version while it is.

      Eventually, my friend had an issue using his mail box in hotmail.

      The two first (facebook and google map) are working with the minimal browser. The last one doesn’t works in any of them. I don’t know if we should care, anyway...

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      • The browser who says "ni" Le 17 August 2009 à 05:10 , by Benjamin Meyer

        Thanks for letting me know

        1) There is work underway to cleanup the Layout and Rendering test failures in QtWebKit. This should hopefully fix it. And if it doesn’t several QtWebKit devs have grumbled about it so I would not be surprised if it was fixed sooner rather then later.

        2) The flash version issue has been fixed and in 0.9 the website will see the flash you have installed.

        3) Hotmail is detecting the user agent and will not work unless you send I.E. In 0.9 you can set userAgent=Foo in the [general] group of Arora’s settings to specify any user agent you want.

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    • The browser who says "ni" Le 24 August 2009 à 09:05 , by david

      I tried arora 0.8.0 and it renders netvibes.com really strangely (both before and after you manage to find the login link), which for me is a showstopper. Note that the raw webkit launcher renders it OK.

      BTW, I just noticed that the "preview message" button on this very blog makes arora hang quite badly for 20s or so...

      — 
      David, looking forward to switch to a lighter browser than firefox

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  • The browser who says "ni" Le 17 August 2009 à 00:44 , by sime

    This is great for front end web developers working on Linux desktops.

    I managed to install it via libwebkit-1.0 package (rather then dev).

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  • The browser who says "ni" Le 17 August 2009 à 02:30 , by taziden

    You can try uzbl or!
    - Surf : http://wiki.github.com/sr/surf
    - Cream-brower: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cre...

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