What does HackerNews think of otter-browser?

Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5

Language: C++

#22 in C++
#87 in Linux
#60 in macOS
#5 in Qt
#38 in Windows
Ask HN: Is there a web browser, that's just a browser? | May 2023
Otter browser

https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser

Ungoogled Chromium

The Android version https://github.com/macchrome/droidchrome/releases comes with customizable adblock filters e.g. easylist, I don't care about cookies, EasyPrivacy etc. that I'm no longer forced to put up with Firefox's jank just for some decent adblocking on my phone anymore.

WebKit Quirks | Feb 2021
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>Especially since it cannot be tested without owning an Apple device.

Yes very annoying. They dont have to bring Safari on Windows, but at least WebKit on Windows would be nice for testing. In the mean time, Otter for Cross Platform Browser [1], or you could do Gnome Web with Windows WSL2.

[1] https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser
Firefox nightlies for Linux are now using Gtk+3 | Jul 2015
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Otter looks like an active project https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser

Ubuntu (mainly phone, coming soon to desktop) has these:

https://launchpad.net/webbrowser-app https://launchpad.net/oxide

It's based on Chromium/Blink.

And Qt itself switched from QtWebkit to Chromium with QtWebEngine - https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine
Vivaldi Is Quickly Becoming the Alternative Browser to Beat | Mar 2015
I'm fairly impressed with Vivaldi and I appreciate its roots greatly. I'm just a bit uncomfortable with its proprietary nature. I'm not a free software zealot, but I do make the effort to use free software when I can.

Not quite the same category, but if anyone is interested in a modern Opera-alike browser check out Otter : https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser

Their main website isn't loading for me at the moment (edit: must have been the network I was on, I'm connected to a different one now and it loads fine), but you can get a good deal of info from the Github. It's under active development and while I wouldn't replace Firefox with it yet I may very well at some point.