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Add to SafariWhen comparing Qutebrowser vs Basilisk, the Slant community recommends Qutebrowser for most people. In the question“What are the best desktop web browsers?” Qutebrowser is ranked 17th while Basilisk is ranked 23rd. 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 Open Source
So the source code can be verified.
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 Security risk
Con Limited WebRTC support
Con Licensed under MPL
which one of the more restrictive open source licenses.
Con Uses Goanna
A Gecko fork that is developed by mostly one developer.
Con Only available for Intel based cpu architectures
it is only available for ix86 and amd64.
Con Limited Widevine support
