 As you know if you've been watching the channel for any amount of time you know that I've been on a browser journey of sorts for the last Two years. It's been a long journey, and it's been a harrowing journey I've tried all the browsers at this point. I mean, it's been kind of crazy I've switched browsers more than I've switched Linux distributions and That's kind of saying something For the most part most of my time over the last two years has been spent in Firefox and Firefox is great. I have problems with Firefox I've made videos about how Firefox is broken before I have issues, but for the most part Firefox has been my daily driver and despite that I still have been looking for greener pastures if you will and I've tried Microsoft Edge I pissed a lot of people off by making a video about it and you know I use it for about a week and a half, and then it you know decided to suck and You know I've used Vivaldi before I had some issues with that. I've used Brave and decided I had hated some of the things that Brave does I've used Chromium before I've used on Google Chromium. I've used LibreWolf. I've used them all I've even used Qt Browser before and I didn't have a great experience with it because Qt Browser's ad blocking is just a Trotius. It's not good at all. It exists if you count that as a win. That's great I mean it gets a certificate of participation when it comes to ad blocking You know whatever But it doesn't work. I mean I've had multiple people come up to me and tell me that Qt Browser has amazing ad blocking And it works just fine and uses Brave ad blocking, you know technology or something Sure, maybe that's true, but it it's terrible. It's not good So that turned me away from Qt Browser for the longest time But this past Sunday I decided I was going to give Qt Browser a try again And I went through and customized it and got a config going and by that I mean I took Tyler's config and made it my own That's I that's what you do, right? And I've been using it ever since today's Wednesday, and I have some thoughts So let me start off by saying that I'm going to stay with Qt Browser. I really like it There's a lot of stuff here that I really truly do enjoy and I think that if I left it behind I would miss those features So there are definitely pluses to Qt Browser that are that have made me decide to stick with it At least for quite a little bit longer or more more than three days I guess but there are also some things that are just a little bit weird and Some things that are just downright bad So I want to take a moment to talk about a few of my good experiences and a few of my bad experiences with Qt Browser So let's go ahead and jump in So this is what my Qt Browser looks like right now I've gone through and I've like I've themed it and stuff and made it look like grub box and stuff and I've added some key bindings and stuff that even Tyler didn't have and for the most part. I'm in love with it I think it's fantastic. I like that I could hide the Tabs and stuff and make them go away. So there's literally no Chrome whatsoever. That's awesome there is one feature that you can add via key binding that will allow you to open up a video from YouTube in MPV so I can just hit capital M and Let's just say I wanted to do this one here and I can it will open up after a moment. It takes a little while It will open that up inside MPV and what that does is gets me past my biggest complaint about Qt Browser Which was ad blocking because while Qt Browser will block most like Display advertising it will not block any video advertising at all like it's Kind of bad but using this workaround it'll get me past advertising on YouTube and Well as someone who makes money off from advertising on YouTube, I probably shouldn't be telling people to bypass advertising I'm one of those people. I can't stand mid-roll ads. So for the most part. I don't mind watching a pre-roll ad I'll sit through those But a lot of creators enable the mid-roll ads and they like interrupt the content. It drives me absolutely bonkers I just can't abide by it. So This gets me past that and it's awesome It's I mean it's really really good and it even works for stream So if you have a creator that you follow that is streaming you can open up open that stream up in MPV and it will actually stream in MPV You know without having to go through and deal with any of YouTube scratch You could actually close YouTube if you wanted to like I like I I had this video open up here I could close YouTube and You know the video is still there. I can still play in the background You can there's also a way you can go through and create it so that it's just audio only if you wanted to do that And you can have a key binding so that it will download the video to your your Hard drive if you wanted to save it for later. That's really really cool I also like the fact that it has a configuration file that you can mess around with so If we open up my configuration file, so if I go to cdn.config cute browser We go into config.py we can actually go through and See that this has a and you know a huge amount of options that you can mess around with and I don't even think that this is all I mean in fact, I know it's not because I've gone through and added a few things To this configuration that Tyler didn't have That makes it a little easier. So I've set the default zoom I've set this Default to save the session so that when I close cute browser and then open back up It remembers all the tabs that I had open. I love that. I also set a start page Which I actually never see because of the the save session thing, but at least it's there So I like that it has a configuration file technically I suppose Firefox has config files as well, but you never mess with them You do all the configuration for Firefox and all those other browsers Inside their their settings applications or settings pages or whatever. So I like this because I'm a terminal nerd So I like configuring stuff through the terminal and this is you know kind of awesome so Let me talk off for a minute about the key bindings that I've either inherited or Added myself. So there's a few of them here. So these are the these MPV ones Will allow me to go through and either play the video like I did before by hitting ctrl-m or not ctrl-m shift Capital M and then if I wanted to do it without any video at all If I just wanted to play in the background like say if it's just music I hit capital P and that will play a Video with just the audio that's really cool and I've also gone through and added this one here This is capital F and basically what this will do is will allow me to open up a link in Firefox And you're probably wondering why would I want that? Well? Here's where we get into the some of the things that are kind of bad about cute browser First thing there are definitely more websites that don't work in cute browser than don't work in Firefox I've always had some problems with rendering in Firefox apparently mostly. It's just me But compared to keep browser Firefox is flawless because they're definitely a lot of quite a few websites that I go to and they're big Websites that just don't work the biggest example. I have of it is tumblr now most people don't go to tumblr these days It's kind of a dying social platform, but I still use it for multiple things I've been there for years and you know, I have people that I follow over there judge me if you will but tumblr won't work For whatever reason you go to tumblr and the key bindings for keep browser just completely stopped working Tumblr will actually warn you that says this browser is not you know up compatible with our website Are you sure you want to proceed? So that's a problem There are a couple of the ones that are smaller than tumblr that I have the same problems with where things just don't work quite as well as Other websites. It's not a big deal. What I've done is I just have Firefox installed Or I've kept Firefox installed and when I need to go to tumblr or one of those other websites I go to Firefox for that thing and then I close Firefox and come back to keep browser It's not a big deal It's not the way I want to use my computer because I really prefer to have one browser But this definitely is a workable solution. It hasn't turned me away yet Honestly, the the biggest problem I've come across with keep browser isn't the functionality of some websites or anything like that It's the fact that it uses a shit ton of memory now granted my uptime right now is at a hundred and almost 170 hours and I had an incident of keep browser up and up for that almost the whole time and That's apparently not a good thing because keep browser at one point was taking 10 gigabytes of memory That's a lot of memory for a browser It reminds me of the olden days in Firefox and Firefox had that huge memory leak and it would literally Never clear itself of memory like you open up a tab it and even if you close that tab that tab would stay in memory And it would do that forever and you just it just kept ballooning and ballooning and ballooning in terms of actual memory usage and You until you actually ran out of memory Keep browser seems to do the same thing and I'm not sure why The longer you use it the more memory it's going to take now. That's not a huge deal for me I have 64 gigabytes of memory. I never used that much so it can use as much as it wants I'm probably never going to run out But it's definitely a worry something that kind of bothers me Mainly because I would like to know why right because I'm not it's not as if I If you look here, it's not as as if I have a ton of tabs open. I have three pinned and I have You know three open ones and that's about my average sometimes I'll have a couple more But it's not like I have 60 tabs open or something like that. That's I I'm not that messy I use a tab. I close a tab Every once in a while I have one that I have open for a little while like I've had this discord thing here Uh open for quite a while because I'm going to eventually try to do this So I have it just saved here instead of saving it as a bookmark But eventually that will get closed So it's not you know as if I have a ton of tabs and it just takes a ton of memory So if I open up, uh, I think I have H top open here And we do the search now It's going to be a little skewed because I have obs printing So obs is actually taking 1.5 percent right now But if we scroll down just a little bit we can see that q browser is in second place with Almost the whole percentage point of my memory And I'm not sure if this is a percentage point of the total use memory Or if it's total a percentage point of all the memory available I'm not sure how h top does that. It's not a big deal But at one point that number was at like 15 or 16 percent And at the total number of uses was at like 10 percent or something like that or 10 gigabytes or something I don't know I I freaked the fuck out and closed q browser because it's like why is it using this on my memory? Like it's it was like what's going on here. It was really weird So, uh, that's my biggest complaint about q browser so far, but Again, it's not something that I'm worried about You see I mean because I have plenty of memory I I doesn't bother me as much but I think that it would bother me if I was like on On that computer behind me that only has eight gigabytes And if that was you if q browser was using, you know a half of the memory on that computer it would be much more Uh, it would affect me much more than it would on this computer that I'm seeing in front of So that'd be a big deal on a computer that's much more memory constrained, but they're just There are way more positives for q browser for me than the negatives The I mean the two negatives that I've talked about the some of the websites that rendering and that memory problem Just aren't going to drive me away because there's so many good things So I showed you the the video thing where you can pop a video out That's one thing that's really cool another thing that I I just I don't see myself being able to leave behind Is its integration To to use a word with google docs now and it's nice. It's not actual integration with google docs But because of the way q browser works I have them keys in google locks I mean I use google docs all the time. I use it for tracking word counts for things that I write I keep I Have another spreadsheet for all the words that I write professionally, which I can't show you I have databases of You know stories that I've read or or the other things that I just use all the time I use google docs all the time and the fact that I can now use Them keys in order to navigate it is awesome Another thing that's really cool is because I'm using bin keys. I can actually go through and use insert mode So I guess insert mode and then I can type in in the the thing right And then I can get out of insert mode and go back to using them keys That's just something that I don't think I could ever live without now because I mean granted I could use in any other browser. I could use arrow keys, right? But I've gotten so used to using the vim keys in vim that I try to use them all over the place And the fact that I can now use them in google locks as well. It's just amazing. I mean, it's so so good And now I'm I know a lot of people are going to be upset because well, Matt you use google docs You're a false advocate or whatever like I have to use google docs for a lot of things for work So I a lot of that usage also tends to translate to some of the things that I use it for personally So I use google docs. I kind of can't get away from it. I know I could use something like next cloud or whatever But I don't Have a next cloud right now. So maybe someday I could do that and then Create a bridge or something between that and google docs. I don't know it doesn't matter tangent aside The vim keys in usage for not only google docs But for the rest of the browser is amazing because you use them to scroll you can use them to open links You can use it to go back and forth I mean, it's just So good I just really truly enjoy that way of navigating a browser now It's not as if it's completely new because in firefox. I had something called vimium. I think it was called or maybe it was called Zeeven See them or something. I don't know was maybe I actually I think I use vim vixen in firefox And that gives you some functionality where you can use the vim keys to scroll and all that kind of stuff But it doesn't do the other stuff like it doesn't have like insert mode and stuff like that because you You know, it just doesn't so You because it doesn't have the insert mode You can actually you can't actually use the vim keys in something like google docs because you're always if you hit jnk You're going to start typing jnk So it's not quite the same. It's so much better in cube browser one area that I've decided not to Explore at all is the the marking system So it cube browser does have like its own bookmarking system But I've decided not to use it at all And the most reason is because if I end up switching away from cube browser like in the future, which is possible I mean if I switch browsers like crazy I don't want to have bookmarks saved in cube browser And then lose them later on because it'd be much harder to get those bookmarks back into like a a normal gooey browser And I don't want to have to like I said, I don't want to lose those. So I've just I've been using my script that I have written That will allow me to have browser independent bookmarks and that seems to work just fine. So I won't be Exploring that at all. So that that is my experiences with cube browser so far and like I said, I really Really like it now I have a bet with Peter one of my Subscribers and one of the people following on twitter that I'll only be on cube browser for five days. I'm on day four right now. So Yeah, I think I'm going to make that and I don't see myself switching away from it There's the the google drive or google docs integration thing that I talk about and that popping out of Videos is just too good to not have and I think I like firefuck or I think that I like cube browser quite a lot and I don't see a need right now to switch back to firefuck So I think I'm going to win that bet. Do you use cube browser? 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