QtWeb - fast portable browser

Browsers, email, chat, etc.
Message
Author
User avatar
Ray MK
Posts: 774
Joined: Tue 05 Feb 2008, 09:10
Location: UK

QtWeb - fast portable browser

#1 Post by Ray MK »

Hi

found this and have been using it for a few weeks.

http://www.qtweb.net/

Lightweight very fast portable web browser.

Just thought it may be of some interest.

Works well in all 4.xx and 5.xx puppy's that I've used it with.

Just download to a suitable folder (ie. browser) outside of your
save_file if running frugal.
Expand the zip and then make the resulting QtWeb file executable.

Click on it and - go.

Enjoy - very best regards - Ray.

User avatar
ttuuxxx
Posts: 11171
Joined: Sat 05 May 2007, 10:00
Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia
Contact:

#2 Post by ttuuxxx »

Yes I tried that about a month back, Its not bad for a static qt browser. I've seen worse qt browsers, really the static ones usually are better than then puppy compiled ones due to the fact usually we have an outdated qt version.
ttuuxxx
http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)

User avatar
Geoffrey
Posts: 2355
Joined: Sun 30 May 2010, 08:42
Location: Queensland

#3 Post by Geoffrey »

Now thats not bad at all, fast and looks good, heaps of features, thats a keeper for sure.
Edit: I just made a pet for this, don't worry if if the page gives a error, the site hasn't updated it's certificate, https://wfurl.com/1223256

User avatar
ttuuxxx
Posts: 11171
Joined: Sat 05 May 2007, 10:00
Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia
Contact:

#4 Post by ttuuxxx »

here's a pet for it http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/2.14X/S ... f-i386.pet (13.4 MB download)
ttuuxxx
http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)

User avatar
capoverde
Posts: 232
Joined: Wed 28 Jun 2006, 21:36
Location: Sanremo (Italy) with fine seaview

#5 Post by capoverde »

Yes, very nice indeed: found it on my own about a week ago, before spotting Ray's post.
It works without fuss both in the Linux and the Win$ version (under Wine) with Puppy 4.3.1, Lucid 5.2.5 and probably Quirky and Wary (not yet tested here).

My Puppies all boot from CD; as suggested, I unzipped QtWeb-elf386.zip in a folder out of the savefile and set the QtWeb binary to executable. The Win$ installer does it all by itself with a click, of course.
It's quite astonishing to see both versions (which I copied on the same SD card) start in a couple seconds and run smoothly on the same Puppy box.

Only hitch for me now is how to have Flashplayer for Youtube etc., which isn't included and is not found automatically in the system files (with my setup, at least); a simple symlink should suffice, will try.

User avatar
Dingo
Posts: 1437
Joined: Tue 11 Dec 2007, 17:48
Location: somewhere at the end of rainbow...
Contact:

#6 Post by Dingo »

capoverde wrote:Only hitch for me now is how to have Flashplayer for Youtube etc., which isn't included and is not found automatically in the system files (with my setup, at least); a simple symlink should suffice, will try.
qtweb only does not support latest flashplayer 12, in fact it works fine with 10.x series. you can download from adobe site
replace .co.cc with .info to get access to stuff I posted in forum
dropbox 2GB free
OpenOffice for Puppy Linux

User avatar
capoverde
Posts: 232
Joined: Wed 28 Jun 2006, 21:36
Location: Sanremo (Italy) with fine seaview

#7 Post by capoverde »

Yes, this morning I tried QtWeb on another box with LuPu5.2.5 and it played YouTube videos perfectly! :D
Using it to post this, too.

Previously, however, my testing conditions with YouTube were actually different: QtWeb had been ported on an SD memory card and started from there, while this time it is in the same partition with Puppy's savefile - seems the only possible difference.
If this is correct, when YouTube is the target it should suffice to copy QtWeb from the card to the savefile partition and, if space is critical, delete it after use.

tomypuppy
Posts: 3
Joined: Thu 14 Apr 2011, 10:44

#8 Post by tomypuppy »

this is a great browser for the likes of mine..
i am currently postin this from a pc with no hdd and just 2gb pendrive to work in an old pc with 128mb ram...lupu5.2.5
the only browser with javascript support that seems to give me multitab browsing without crashing is qtweb.(tried opera,seamonkey,chromium,iron,firefox-2.0 and 4 ).
and i m able to run im pidgin and qtweb together even in this minimal pc..
thank u for this great browser..

User avatar
playdayz
Posts: 3799
Joined: Fri 25 Apr 2008, 18:57

#9 Post by playdayz »

I like it too. I will include it in the Puppy Package Manager lucid-repo. Thanks.

User avatar
Makoto
Posts: 1665
Joined: Fri 04 Sep 2009, 01:30
Location: Out wandering... maybe.

#10 Post by Makoto »

I've been experimenting with it since more or less when this topic was created, but for some reason, on my Puppy system, it'll seemingly just sit there/take a long time during page loads (even to the QTWeb homepage), at some point. Anything I could be missing? This is the first Webkit browser I've tried on this system; no such problems in Seamonkey, Puppy Browser, Firefox or Opera. I haven't tried the Windows version under Wine, though.

Any ideas what I could be missing - or is my 11-year old system just not up to the task of running a Webkit-based browser properly?
[ Puppy 4.3.1 JP, Frugal install ] * [ XenialPup 7.5, Frugal install ] * [XenialPup 64 7.5, Frugal install] * [ 4GB RAM | 512MB swap ]
In memory of our beloved American Eskimo puppy (1995-2010) and black Lab puppy (1997-2011).

User avatar
harii4
Posts: 448
Joined: Fri 30 Jan 2009, 04:08
Location: La Porte City, IA , U.S.A.
Contact:

#11 Post by harii4 »

Seems lighter than opera and works with 3.01.
its an keeper :D
3.01 Fat Free / Fire Hydrant featherweight/ TXZ_pup / 431JP2012
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Peace and Justice are two sides of the same coin.

User avatar
Dean
Posts: 46
Joined: Thu 03 Dec 2009, 13:15
Location: UK

#12 Post by Dean »

QtWeb runs smoother than Seamonkey on Wary 5.2 :D
------------
[b]HP 510 Notebook[/b] CPU 1.4 GHz Pentium M / RAM 2GB / 15.4" WXGA BrightView 1280 x 800 / 40GB HD / OS Manjaro 0.8.8

umair
Posts: 245
Joined: Sat 25 Dec 2010, 11:09
Location: KUST Kohat, Pakistan
Contact:

#13 Post by umair »

hello every one:
I installed Wary 5.2 and QTWebBrowser, all works perfectly but I m not able to sign in any of my email account as qtweb gives the error that cookies are not enabled, I checked from the privacy setting.All looks fine. I m posting the screenshots of error and privacy setting of qtweb: It is to mention that I am able to open my email account from other default web browser i.e. seamonkey.
My PC specification is : very old P-III 733 Celerone with 128 MB RAM and 20 GB HDD with around 256 MB of SWAP Partion and I m using FRUGAL Installation. (I m surffing the web from proxy)
Any Idea ........?
Thnx in advance
Attachments
2.png
(59.4 KiB) Downloaded 2058 times
1.png
(41.95 KiB) Downloaded 2120 times

User avatar
tallboy
Posts: 1760
Joined: Tue 21 Sep 2010, 21:56
Location: Drøbak, Norway

#14 Post by tallboy »

Hi umair, could lack of support for Java have anything to do with you not being able to open your email account? I have not used the QTWebBrowser yet, but I read the specifications, see http://qtweb.net/compare.php. Some login services require Java to work. I have a net bank that specifically says they require Java to be able to login, I'll report back on the result.

Javascript=yes, Java=no.

Just my 2¢.

Tallboy

Edit: Silly me forgot to read their FAQ, login problems are discussed there.

umair
Posts: 245
Joined: Sat 25 Dec 2010, 11:09
Location: KUST Kohat, Pakistan
Contact:

#15 Post by umair »

tallboy wrote:Hi umair, could lack of support for Java have anything to do with you not being able to open your email account? I have not used the QTWebBrowser yet, but I read the specifications, see http://qtweb.net/compare.php. Some login services require Java to work. I have a net bank that specifically says they require Java to be able to login, I'll report back on the result.

Javascript=yes, Java=no.

Just my 2¢.

Tallboy

Edit: Silly me forgot to read their FAQ, login problems are discussed there.
Hi Tallboy:
Thnx for the reply, want to tell you that no problem with qtweb login to any account at home with direct Internet connection, I want to use it in my work place as there is net available through proxy Server.
Any idea..
Umair

starhawk
Posts: 4906
Joined: Mon 22 Nov 2010, 06:04
Location: Everybody knows this is nowhere...

#16 Post by starhawk »

Tried on Akita Linux beta6, does not appear to load plugins of any kind -- flash included!

alphamale
Posts: 18
Joined: Mon 28 Nov 2011, 18:54

problems with flash being recognized

#17 Post by alphamale »

i have qtweb working very well except for flash.

i'm on slacko, qt-all sfs, latest flashplayer is installed, but qtweb is not seeing it. i made a subdirectory called plugins and symlinked libflashplayer.so but it still isn't seeing it.

does it not work with flash 11.x?

where should libflashplayer.so go for qtweb to see it?

User avatar
sc0ttman
Posts: 2812
Joined: Wed 16 Sep 2009, 05:44
Location: UK

#18 Post by sc0ttman »

You might need some extra libs for Flash to work: http://akita.scottjarvis.com/browserlibs.pet
[b][url=https://bit.ly/2KjtxoD]Pkg[/url], [url=https://bit.ly/2U6dzxV]mdsh[/url], [url=https://bit.ly/2G49OE8]Woofy[/url], [url=http://goo.gl/bzBU1]Akita[/url], [url=http://goo.gl/SO5ug]VLC-GTK[/url], [url=https://tiny.cc/c2hnfz]Search[/url][/b]

joagan
Posts: 2
Joined: Thu 22 Mar 2012, 00:17

#19 Post by joagan »

Get a strange problem, if I disable javascript forums work and when I enable it for sites that need it/or not just load the header?

On lupu 528 - live cd

ahoppin
Posts: 172
Joined: Mon 16 May 2011, 04:13

#20 Post by ahoppin »

Nice browser, very snappy!

One little oddity, on the preferences / privacy tab, hovering the cursor over the left side tickboxes causes them to become corrupted. This can be avoided by moving mouse very slowly. It might be a qt quirk, or might be caused by my machine being an older and slower one (Athlon XP 2700).

I miss only a couple of Seamonkey features. First, the ability to save passwords for only some sites. With qtweb it seems to be all or nothing. And second, Flashblock - though I have a version of that for Midori, and it might work for Qtweb, haven't tried yet.

Thanks for tipping me off to this!

Post Reply