When comparing Qutebrowser vs Yandex, the Slant community recommends Qutebrowser for most people. In the question“What are the best lightweight web browsers?” Qutebrowser is ranked 2nd while Yandex is ranked 11th. 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 Good search
Sometimes more results than Google and DDG.
Pro Very lightweight and fast
Pro Minimalistic and beautiful
Yandex seems to get their inspiration from Chrome and Safari making this an undoubtedly beautiful browser with its unique and good looks.
Pro Quick and reliable
Pro No repeated ads
Ads of services and productions you search online keep reappearing on google searches.
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.