Is Falkon the best Web browser in haiku?

mmmm, how to edit the title?
maybe it should be “which is the best web browser in haiku?”
flash ,video, some kind of complicated website are very important.
by the way ,becjk also is important for me.

if just text, i think w3m or links is the best.

How is flash relevant in 2023?

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I fixed the title for you. If you want to change it again, there is a pencil icon next to the title when you scroll to the top.

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we used to say flash instead of playing video with web browser in chinese main land.
i just found that webpositive is much better than before.

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I installed falkon today
(with the pkgman install falkon command
on the terminal)
and everything works.
youtube, video streaming,
sound also is loud and clear.
Some sites may crash.
No big deal, because falkon is super fast.

Concerning gnome web (epiphany):
it’s also fairly good, it plays videos on you tube,
but not the video streaming site I’ve tried
(ertflix.gr)
it opens it, but when I click the film
it freezes.
Other live tv channels though work very well.

Unfortunately, WebPositive
doesn’t play any kind of video,
nor the pronunciation on dictionary sites
(e.g. integrity - Αγγλοελληνικό Λεξικό WordReference.com)
because the MP3 playback is not supported.
it is also a little slower than falkon or web.
I hope these issues will be solved soon,
as WEbPositive is Haiku’s native web browser.

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Good to know. Will try it. :slight_smile: The Haiku user experience is getting better and better.

Would be the best web browser for Haiku if it didn’t crash every 30 seconds. There is some issue in QtWebEngine that no one ever had the interest or time to debug that causes the browser to crash on any Javascript heavy website. Usually it crashes immediately on load of the page.

epiphany > webposite > otter

use the three application.

I’m sure you are right. But my experience is better. It (Web and Web+) doesn’t crash every 30 second for me. And it works on JS heavy sites for me. Haven’t tested Falkon yet, but it should be good, too. Don’t know about Otter.

Each browser has its plusses and minusses.

Here’s a comparison I made:

Dooble is really good too, but since it’s privacy focused it doesn’t remember the previous sessions tabs.

What I would like is to load most websites in netpositive, then load certain problematic websites in a specific browser. Perhaps this could be done with a tracker addon that loads bookmarks from the filesystem.

Also what would be nice is to redirect certain websites to others (example I use the RES chrome addon to always redirect reddit.com to old.reddit.com). This could be done with proxomitron, which has been ported.

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If using Dooble on Haiku x64:

  • HTML5Test: 522 / 555

In comparison, Chrome 111 on Windows 10/11:

  • HTML5Test: 528 / 555
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For me both Dooble and Falkon just segfault on V8CodeCache::SetCacheTimeStamp as soon as I load most Javascript pages, YouTube is something that can reproduce the crash every single time.

I installed dooble today from Haikudepot.
It’s very fast, it plays video on every site I’ve tried
and the sound is excellent.
Some crashes happened, though.

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