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Split Browser - a minimalistic, ultra-lightweight, open source web browser based on WebKit/Ultralight/native webview with a split screen (tiled) view

Home Page: https://niutech.github.io/splitbrowser/

License: MIT License

CMake 0.18% C++ 32.42% QMake 0.28% CSS 0.60% C 66.52%

browser web webkit webview webview2 qt split-screen

splitbrowser's Introduction

Split Browser

Split Browser is a minimalistic, ultra-lightweight, open source web browser for desktop, based on WebKit (provided by Playwright), Ultralight and a native webview (WebKit on macOS, WebKitGTK on Linux, Edge WebView2 on Windows), with split screen (tiled) view, made with Qt.

Every variant of Split Browser (WebKit, Ultralight, native webview) uses <100 MB of RAM to show the home page, which is much less than Chrome/Firefox/Vivaldi/Opera/Edge. It also allows you to show web pages side-by-side as tiles by dragging and dropping tabs.

See the RAM usage of all 3 variants showing the DuckDuckGo home page:

Split Browser is in the alpha stage and for now it provides only basic web browsing features - no bookmarks, no history, no extensions, no adblock, no advanced settings.

Download

You can download the latest binary for Windows 10+ in the releases. Keep in mind, this is an alpha version, so use at your own risk!

Build

This project is being developed on Windows 10 using Qt 5.14, MSVC 2017 and qmake, but it also runs on Linux and macOS, provided that you have downloaded the lastest WebKitGTK, Ultralight SDK or Playwright WebKit binaries for your platform. Extract them to folders: ../ultralight and ../webkit relative to splitbrowser, open this project in Qt Creator, set the engine in splitbrowser.pro and run it.

Here is Split Browser using WebKitGTK on Linux:

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Contributions are welcome!

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splitbrowser's Issues

Would you please wrap the webview2 for qt?

webview2 is more powerful than qt's webviewengine, would you please wrap that for qt?

by the way: take a look at konqueror...

.. the browser that has had unlimited window splitting capabilities coded in 1999 and is the actual origin of them blink/webkit HTML engines. It would very much welcome new maintainers that could improve usability for modern usage scenarios or port some of the features that went into falkon..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konqueror
https://apps.kde.org/konqueror/
https://www.falkon.org

Cookie Support

Great! This version of WebKit on Windows is effectively Safari 16.0.

It works well enough to load my website though it clearly has an issue with cookies. Could you please fix the issue so that I can sign in and stay signed in? This would have the greatest impact of anything for bringing this project from a hopeful possibility to replacing Otter for quick WebKit testing. This would allow me to know if I need to hook up my Mac Mini to test something.

The only thing beyond that would be making the web inspector tools work. Getting this far would allow me to test most things WebKit related without having to hook up my Mac Mini.

thank you for this

ive not been able to use safari on windows in forever. i prefer the engine. thanks

Is lite UWP ARM version of splitbrowser possible?

Hello niutech,

Is lite UWP ARM version of splitbrowser possible? My "1000000000000000-dollar" question is related to old cancelled/dead Windows 10 Mobile OS... =)

Best,
Mediaexplorer
W10M fanboy

About the webkit build

Hey, your project is the only one I found to get a reasonably updated webkit in Windows.

If you ever get back to it, please add the developer console from webkit. It would be super helpful to debug webkit issues on Windows.

headless browser

how to open the link in headless browser? is it possible to open it without title bar or search bar? also is there a way to inject javascript to the browser?

Sugestions

This project is awesome, thank you in first place.

I intend to use it as a dashboard wall, to monitore multiple tools. It would be usefull if you add some features:

Fullscreen support (for the whole window, not tiles)
Hide tab bar, address bar and command buttons( as forward, back and refresh)

Example:

Suggestions

Args support to open websites with app shortcuts
Favicon
Tab close on middle mouse click

command line switches

How to pass flags like "--autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required" or "hide-scrollbars" and all.
BTW Thank you for this great project. its really helpful.

Plan(s) for x86 support?

I'm aware that majority of OSs and and software support is fully migrating to x64, and having a different architecture support also mean double the work since they needed to be coded differently (which is why many emulation software/virtual machine also dropped their support for 32-bit system). Just a thought that it'd be nice to have this for smaller systems much like embedded or IoT environment.

If you don't have interest in it, that's fine.

Cheers.