Orca Browser

Does anyone use Orca? I have been experimenting with a few different browsers on my (Vista) laptop including Pale Moon, Avant, Maxthon & Sleipnir. So far, the only one that has appealed to me is Orca. It is very fast & can utilise Firefox add-ons (sort of anyway).

 

OK, I've uninstalled Orca. It was a bit buggy, it had problems closing & opening, not unlike Flock once did on my laptop. It's probably a 'Vista' thing.

Shame, as I had hopes for it.

 

I installed Avant which is the same as Orca (why they have two I don't know) and I had the same problem you had. It gave me BSOD and I posted it on their forum and I can't even get a response that makes any sense. I posted weeks ago.

I really like this browser but with the attitude they have I don't see it going any where soon.

 

As far as I know Orca is Gecko-engined & Avant is Trident, but they are remarkably similar. Orca works well with NoScript, ABP & WOT. You don't have the GUI extension buttons but you can right-click for NoScript options & WOT works in Google, Yahoo & Ask Jeeves search pages. Orca had some beautiful skins & about 20 are pre-installed & you don't have to re-start to change them.

Yeah, it's a shame. I really liked Orca as well.

 

@Rilla927, I tried the GreenBrowser & found that it has a lot of commonality with Avant/Orca. It was very light & responsive. I couldn't figure out the adblocking though so I uninstalled it. You might want to give it a spin. I had no opening/closing issues with it.

 

Thanks, I will give it a whirl and let you know.

 

OK, good luck.

 

Well that was short lived. It would not let me change the homepage from all that blinky crap. I hated having to choose the language everytime it was started.

 

I didn't even get that far, the blinky crap is annoying. Once I couldn't figure out the adblocker I waved it goodbye.

I suppose the only one left now is Slimbrowser.

I don't know about you, but I just aren't that enthusiastic any more.

 

Midori http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/midori_summary.html works quite well on Linux (my only OS's). There are Windows binaries available too.
On Linux very fast and low memory usage.
I wouldn't make it my primary browser though.
If you want to test it on Windows plse. some feedback.

 

Hmmmm .... I'll have to think about it.

 

Reading the FAQ... Seems very interesting.

One confusing line here (on the main page):
Requirements: GTK+ 2.10, WebkitGTK+ 1.1.1, libXML2, libsoup 2.25.2, sqlite
Optional: Unique 0.9, libidn, docutils, libnotify

I wonder what that means for Windows users?


*** Ocky, could you please make a new thread for this browser? ***

 

OK vasa1, I have .. here https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=285803

 

Have you tried Maxthon 3? The latest build is very stable and near feature complete. I think it's much improved over v2.

 

No, I may give it a whizz though. Does the adblocker work on it?