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Ray MK · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 773 Location: UK

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.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 04 Apr 2011, 20:16 Post subject:

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

Geoffrey · Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2349 Location: Queensland

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

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 04 Apr 2011, 22:32 Post subject:

here's a pet for it http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/2.14X/Software/QtWeb-elf-i386.pet (13.4 MB download)
ttuuxxx

capoverde · Posted: Thu 14 Apr 2011, 01:51 Post subject:

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.

Dingo · Posted: Thu 14 Apr 2011, 04:53 Post subject:

capoverde · Posted: Sun 17 Apr 2011, 04:25 Post subject:

Yes, this morning I tried QtWeb on another box with LuPu5.2.5 and it played YouTube videos perfectly! Very Happy

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 · Joined: 14 Apr 2011 Posts: 3

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..

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3794

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

Makoto · Posted: Sun 01 May 2011, 23:17 Post subject:

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?

harii4 · Posted: Sun 23 Oct 2011, 15:35 Post subject:

Seems lighter than opera and works with 3.01.
its an keeper Very Happy

Dean · Joined: 03 Dec 2009 Posts: 47 Location: UK

QtWeb runs smoother than Seamonkey on Wary 5.2 Very Happy

umair · Posted: Wed 28 Dec 2011, 06:31 Post subject:

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

tallboy · Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 1009 Location: Oslo, Norway

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 · Posted: Sat 31 Dec 2011, 13:53 Post subject: