I like the way qutebrowser works and the way it avoids wasting space, and I wish I could use it. But over several versions of Ubuntu and qutebrowser, I’ve encountered too many problems; I think most are due to the qtwebengine and the fact that qutebrowser is made with Python.

The latter often leads to the familiar dependency hell when trying to install or upgrade the program.

I have frequent crashes, it’s slow at rendering pages, it uses more memory than (for example) chromium and seems to leak memory; any kind of CSS animation causes the CPU to have a major workout. After one upgrade most video stopped working.

I never cared about the ad blocker, as I use a hosts file for that. Why doesn’t everyone? It seems to be a better solution.