Re: Otter Browser is the best lightweight web browser
Reply #7 –
@treego, QtWebEngine backend is still marked as experimental, and since it is heavy it is not distributed in all flavors.
You can just unpack it somewhere and yes, you can have both, and by default both will use the same settings folder and share session (but not cache and cookies).
In fact you can have both backends in single binary, including ability to have tab using QtWebKit next to tab with QtWebEngine but it become complicated since Qt 5.6 ships only with the latter (although there is chance to get unofficial QtWebKit builds for 5.6)...
@bluedragon77, it's better to call it just a framework, only few Qt modules are UI related. ;-)
And it is not true that they are sacrificing performance, but well, if you want more features then you usually must expect higher resources usage.
Use of static build could help a bit (especially under Windows), but I'm not sure if it is possible to do that with QtWebKit or QtWebEngine.