Octium - The new browser

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Hi guys! :smile:

While you’ve been busy downloading Chrome and such, I was busy creating a whole new browser. Its still in Alpha and not ready for public download yet. But for the sake of believing here is a screenshot:

Octium Alpha 1.1

DuckDuckGo Search Engine.

Basically I collected some code from populair browsers like Opera, Safari, Firefox and Chrome and combined the nice features of those. Maybe the most awesome feature I added myself is the customisation. You can customize everything from the color to the style. The Add-Ons from Chrome sadly dont work (yet!). More screenshots will come soon. Still creating a GitHub should be up soon. Got any suggestions? Wanna help?

The Omnibar you see used in this picture is from the Midori browser. Which is a very lightweigh open-source browser, which I use to read text.

Update 10-10-2015.

The Omnibar has been changed, DuckDuckGo is from now on the default search-engine on Octium. Mainly because it is (one of) the only private search engines there is for the surface web. (See picture “Octium Pre-Alpha 1.1”. This version is still very buggy and nowhere near for consumer use.

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I hope you didn’t take the slowness of IE and the lack of flash from Apple :stuck_out_tongue:

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Looks like you forked chrome. Which part is from opera/firefox?

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The tab list seen in the screenshot is from Firefox, The omnibar is from Opera.

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I don’t use Opera much, but if I understand correctly your browser doesn’t have chrome’s omnibar. Is opera’s as good?

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I personally can’t stand anything but the omnibar.

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More likely a Chromium fork plus some Firefox. Only one way to be sure.

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Looks fancy, might like to try it later on. :slight_smile: (providing it doesn’t eat up 30% of my CPU like chrome does at times :angry:)

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Yay for GPU acceleration!

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As long as it has more of chrome look then firefox, I’m all for it.

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Mine only gets there when I have ~30 extensions

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Mine gets there easily for some reason, I check task manager and there’s like a separate process for every tab >.>

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Because that’s how you are able to play audio/video in one tab while in another tab.

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Still though, my web browser shouldn’t take up as much CPU as skype does, heck I don’t even know why skype needs 30% either! >_>

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Its a Chrome Canary fork.

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Personally, Yes it is as good. It has some good and some bad features but yes it is as good.

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Actually, you can do that with one process too, if you use threading correctly. Not like it ain’t possible in Firefox :stuck_out_tongue:

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Awesome!
I tried compiling Chromium but I was unsuccessful. That was months ago though. Its probably easier to do now.

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This should be an addon imo, not something out of the box. I don’t use such things right now and it’d just be added strain on my limited network connection.

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You can disable it in the settings.