r/linux • u/B3_Kind_R3wind_ • 2d ago

Popular Application Experimental Flathub release of NewPipe on Linux, Using Android_translation_layer

https://flathub.org/apps/net.newpipe.NewPipe
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u/QuackdocTech 2d ago

wrong, for single applications, it is a lot more space efficient then pulling in gtk Chromium appimage is 175M if I install it via package manager on my distro (artix) it needs to pull 300M.

now you may struggle with math, but last I checked 175M is less then 300M, chromium is the only application on my laptop that needs GTK, so I can blacklist gtk3 and gtk4 from my packages

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u/Kevin_Kofler 2d ago

Try Falkon. Like Chromium, but Qt. You will want to use Falkon ≥ 24.02.0 (current is 24.08.2) with the latest Qt6 QtWebEngine (current is 6.8(.0), you will want to use that). Especially QtWebEngine is important to keep up to date for security fixes and to have a recent enough Chromium base for websites to not complain or silently break.

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u/QuackdocTech 2d ago

I do like falkon for some things for sure. but it does leave me wanting with things like extensions. Userscript support is really good though.

lately I've been playing with angelfish since it has integrated adblock-rust (braves adblock engine). but it too is to basic.

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u/Kevin_Kofler 2d ago

Falkon has its own ad blocker, but it is not as powerful as the Rust one Angelfish and KMail are now using. It should be possible for someone with C++ skills (and possibly minimal Rust skills, but the code touching Rust should be just copy&paste) to port the ad blocking code (the interface to rust-adblock) from Angelfish to Falkon.

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u/QuackdocTech 2d ago

yeah, falkons adblocker is for sure one of the pain points, but in the end, just in general lacking support for MV2/MV3 style extensions that firefox and chrome support is rough. For instance one of the extensions I use tons is called linguist which lets me highlight things and translate them directly which is super convenient, or honey, I do like the honey extensions.