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Glacier is an open-source web browser with extensive customization capabilities

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35 pointssnowkat10 comments

There's no actual information about the browser, but given a quick scan shows that it pulls in PyQt I assume its just a wrapper around a qtwebview?

[edit: looked at the actual sources and yes it is just a qtwebview]

Thanks - what the browser was was what I wanted to know as well.

Naming it after something known for its slow speed is an odd choice.

Do you want an open-source web browser with extensive customization capabilities? Well then Glacier Browser is perfect for you! We are fully open source (GPL) and if you can't customize something, just make an issue and we will let you customize it in the next update!

This could really use a screenshot.

No screenshots, no example customisations. The installation is not exactly off to a great start either:

(venv) user@kubuntu:/mnt/sdc1/github.com/glacier$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://pypi.ngc.nvidia.com Collecting PyQt5>=5.6 Downloading PyQt5-5.15.11-cp38-abi3-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.whl (8.2 MB) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 8.2/8.2 MB 1.6 MB/s eta 0:00:00 Collecting PyQt5-sip<13,>=12.15 Downloading PyQt5_sip-12.15.0-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_5_x86_64.manylinux1_x86_64.whl (270 kB) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 270.5/270.5 KB 3.0 MB/s eta 0:00:00 Collecting PyQt5-Qt5<5.16.0,>=5.15.2 Downloading PyQt5_Qt5-5.15.14-py3-none-manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (60.5 MB) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 60.5/60.5 MB 2.1 MB/s eta 0:00:00 Installing collected packages: PyQt5-Qt5, PyQt5-sip, PyQt5 Successfully installed PyQt5-5.15.11 PyQt5-Qt5-5.15.14 PyQt5-sip-12.15.0

(venv) user@kubuntu:/mnt/sdc1/github.com/glacier$ python main.pyw

Please add ublock, anti fingerprinting, canvas block, 3rd party plugin support

What I wished browsers on Android would do is scroll pages with volume buttons and close pages on double tap or some combination similar to screenshot ring.

I use Berry browser and configure it to scroll on volume buttons. You can configure closing pages in plenty of ways too

Thx will check it out

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