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Otter Browser Forum / It comes on the Gentoo Linux live dvd...
Hello, to any of us who are brave enough to install this beast(both in a good and bad sense) of a Linux distribution... Anyways I was exploring Gentoo on an old Thinkpad x40 for my first time, when I noticed that Otter browser comes by default on the Gentoo Live DVD.

Ofc. that does not mean you get it just by intalling Gentoo, otter is only on the Live DVD. But it is still nice to know.
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Otter Browser Forum / Gstreamer dependencies?
First I must say that this latest appimage, '12.1' is fantastic. My only issue is with youtube ofc. It sends audio to my speakers insted of my headphones, and the headphones are set to be used by the system. Also there's no video(even though progress happened and now fullscreen works). Which gstreamer dependencies am I supposed to have?
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Otter Browser Forum / Debian packages?
I can't find the debian binaries for the latest releases anymore...
So wat's the best way to install otter on Linux now?
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Otter Browser Forum / How to install otter on Debian testing.
There is some packkaging troublee ATM with Debian testing in that some packages are stuck in unstable. That is not a problem for packages that are in the Debian repositories, but it is a problem for packages outside the repositories.

Luckily I found a workaround.

The packages that are missing for me were
libhunspell-1.3-0 and qtbase-abi-5-3-2(which is just a virtual package)

First I tried to install otter with gdebi so that it installs any and all dependencies it can install and tells me which ones I am missing.

I installed libhunspell by manually downloading libhunspell-1.3-0 from the unstable repository from here and then installing that package with gdebi:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/libhunspell-1.3-0
Then I did sudo apt install libqt5core5a (which provides functionalities that otter needs from the qtbase-abi
Unfortunately I could not install qtbase-abi-5-3-2 itself at all, so I just skipped that.
If you had any other missing dependencies you can install them by using the same methods I used.
Then I just in case uninstalled otter.
I reinstalled it by downloading the latest weekly package and doing sudo dpkg -i name-of-otters-deb-package.deb
And now I am writing this from my Otter-browser on Debian testing.
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Otter Browser Forum / Blueotter css theme for Otter browser
https://github.com/mariokamenjak/blueotter
Hello guys, I have made a custom CSS theme for Otter browser. To use it, you just download the zip, unzip it and point otter to the CSS file from:
Tools>Preferences>Advanced>Appearance>Style sheet.
It works best with GTK+ or Fusion as widget styles.
Here is how it looks, be prepared for lots of light blue:



And although the original CSS from which I made this was completely uncommented, I have managed to mak some comments, so if you want to make your own custom CSS, it will be easier if you just modify my own.
Blueotter is a modification of the Darcula theme for QtCreator:
https://dndsanctuary.eu/index.php?topic=1694.0
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Otter Browser Forum / Youtube drains CPU
I know that this might be a backend problem with QT, however, as soon as I try to enter Youtube with Otter, Otters CPU usage rises for about 50% whenever youtube actually does anything.
I have a pretty strong Laptop, so although it should rise it should not rise so much.
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Otter Browser Forum / Stylesheets?
Are there any stylesheets for the otter UI?
If not is there a template which I can then edit? Or maybe even a tutorial on this? Are they CSS?
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Otter Browser Forum / Otter-browser on Ubuntu Unity8?
Would it be possible to package Otter browser via a click or snap package on the new Ubuntu unity8?

I figure Otter browser is made with QT, and the new unity8 on Ubuntu has a QT/QML API. With minor modifications to Otter's UI even Ubuntu phones could be supported.
It is an opportunity for Otter, because there is not a lot of competition yet on that platform, so otter could win the hearts of Ubuntu unity8/phone users. And trough them Otter would get some traction by positive marketing via word of mouth.

Also unity8 and click/snap packages will soon become the default on Ubuntu anyways.