When comparing Qutebrowser vs Naver Whale, the Slant community recommends Qutebrowser for most people. In the question“What are the best desktop web browsers?” Qutebrowser is ranked 17th while Naver Whale is ranked 53rd. 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 It's a Suite
It includes a calculator, timer, calendar and unit converter and a built-in music player.
Pro Convenient sidebar
You can have a bunch of apps on the sidebar which makes accessing them more convenient.
Pro Looks cute
Has a cute aesthetic with many options for wallpapers and changing the browser design.
Pro Compatible with Chromium extensions
You can use Chromium extensions.
Pro Uses Blink
It uses Blink which is the most used rendering engine.
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 Misses translations
Since Naver is the South Korean Google it focuses mostly on Korea and some parts of the browser might miss translations.
Con Looks like an alien
It does not follow your desktop overall design.
Con Feature creep
Too much stuff.
