Qutebrowser vs QtWeb
When comparing Qutebrowser vs QtWeb, the Slant community recommends Qutebrowser for most people. In the question“What are the best lightweight web browsers?” Qutebrowser is ranked 2nd while QtWeb is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Qutebrowser is:
With suggestions/auto-complete to reduce the learning curve.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Vim-style keyboard shortcuts and commands for rapid navigation
With suggestions/auto-complete to reduce the learning curve.
Pro Fast and light on resource usage
Pro Highly customizable
And quite easy to configure. You can even write your own config.
Pro Great for Privacy
Makes no unexpected network requests by default, unlike most other browsers (Chrome, Chromium, Brave, Firefox, etc).
Pro Userscripts
Call custom scripts on web pages or links (hinting mode).
You can use this for downloading of videos (youtube-dl, adfree), saving web pages as pdf or adding news sources to your RSS reader (newsboat).
Pro Despite its very small size, it is self-contained: it does not depend on IE
Pro Windows version available in installer and portable (zip) formats
Pro Very lightweight with minimal system requirements
Pro Very small download
Windows: installer ~8MB; portable (zip) ~7.4MB
Pro Available for different operating systems
Windows, Linux, Unix and MacOS X.
Cons
Con Software rendering only with Nouveau Drivers
Con Steep learning curve
If you're not a vim user, it will take some time to get used to the shortcuts.
Con Slow
As it is mainly written in Python, it's startup is slower than the competition.
Con Requires additional support and plugins for video playback
Con It's not in active development
Last version (3.8.5) was released on Sep 9, 2013.
