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Browsers & Technology / Re: What is your OS? (operating system)
In my work I generally spend hours and hours and hours using OS X. Industry standard it's expected. Occasionally using WIN to 'check it works' write an installer script, etc. (Virtual box comes in handy here).

At home we generally use Linux. Ubuntu/Crunchbang and Arch. (Currently)

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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Beta 3 release (01-11-2014)
Significant improvements in this beta release. Hiding menu bar is now working on Linux install. Just waiting for an option to hide or reduce the height of the lower (status) bar with the zoom slider on it, could the dead space on the left of the bar could be utilised for load progress or something?

Keep up the good work it is appreciated.

@ersi nice round-up. Thanks.

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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Otter Tips and Tricks
I don't get the system tray icon on lxpanel (lubuntu 14.10). Tried disable/enable in about:config. Still nothing?

EDIT: After installing weekly #38. I now have the tray icon in lxpanel.  :yes:
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Otter 0.9.02
Great work. Congratulations.

Installation went fine and it seems very snappy. The Content Blocking is a welcomed feature.

When the ability to hide toolbars and the menubar, and add-on compatability hit this could be a real contender. I using it more and more already.
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Feature Requests
@muzzthegreat Hi and welcome. Pressing the '1' and '2' keys to cycle left and right through open tabs is working for me 'out of the box' no configuration required here.
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Otter Browser Forum / Otter 0.9.02-dev - weekly #23
Otter 0.9.02 is not working for me it throws up:

[syslog]
Jun 10 01:38:22 utopic-netbook kernel: [  430.783105] otter-browser[1681]: segfault at 6f646ef5 ip b6ee654e sp bfb1d9d0 error 4 in libQt5Widgets.so.5.2.1[b6e14000+60a000]:

reverting to 0.9.01 and everything is OK again.
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: What would make Otter a Browser of Choice?
@Emdek Thanks for the links. I have been keeping an eye on Github discussions. Otter seems to be heading in a direction I like and at a fair pace. The stability of my Lubuntu install is impressive, as yet, it hasn't missed a beat. I'm going to keep Otter installed on my Linux netbook and keep tabs on progress.

@ersi Portability is important for me too. I can find myself working in various locations throughout the year and the ability to download a browser, 'log in', synch and have everything at hand, without lugging around a laptop, is useful. But, after being too faithful to Opera synch I felt I got my fingers burned. So I've turned to third-party add-on's that synch across various browsers, such as EverSync, FVD and LastPass.
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: What would make Otter a Browser of Choice?
Hi

I have been keeping an eye on this project since its conception and I have been running the Alpha versions on Win7. I have now installed the Beta on a 32bit Lubuntu netbook.

I am pleased that Otter is an Open-source project, that sits well with me, and is one thing that Otter offers that Opera sadly never did.

A Mac version is also important to me as my 9-5 work day is usually spent sat in-front of my Mac.

I used to use Opera on Mac, Win & Linux computers and it was my primary browser and I had become rather dependant on the Opera synch facility. I have now changed to Firefox/Chromium and use third party add-ons such as Last-Pass to synch my various browsers. I don't want to put all my egg's in one basket again. So an important feature for me is compatibility with Firefox/Chrome add-on's API.

Native mail-clients and bit-torrents are less important to me as I use other applications for those and I'd rather have a browser that is lighter on resources than full of features I don't use.

The browser interface certainly reminds me of Opera 12. There are a few refinements such as hiding the menu bar and toolbars that would help, especially on a netbook screen. The amount of screen real estate used by the UI is currently considerably more than Firefox uses. Otherwise, it feels familiar and I like it.