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Otter Browser icon

Otter Browser

 80 likes

Web browser controlled by the user, not vice-versa.

Otter Browser is a project aiming to recreate best aspects of classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5. Its primary objective is to become haven for power users that cannot stand what happened to Opera after ditching Presto engine. Ot.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Haiku
3.7 / 5 Avg rating (3)
80likes
5comments
0news articles

Features

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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Opera-like
  2.  Built-in RSS reader
  3.  Feed Reader
  4.  No Tracking
  5.  Ad-free
  6.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  7.  Support for Gestures
  8.  Portable
  9.  Full keyboard shortcuts
  10.  Built-in Download Manager
  11.  Tabbed browsing
  12.  Content Filtering

 Tags

  • qt5

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Otter Browser information

  • Developed by

    Emdek
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.7
  • Alternatives

    128 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Otter Browser, and it has gotten 80 likes

Otter Browser was added to AlternativeTo by landroni on Jun 23, 2014 and this page was last updated Jun 2, 2022.

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Top Positive Comment
jimcape
Mar 18, 2018
13

I've been using Otter Browser for about a year and half now. Being a Opera user for about 18 years. I'm still hanging on to the last Presto engine with Opera 12.18. Just wish they hadn't gone and gotten all stupid, deciding to be Chrome's little brother. Call it what you want,,, it's Google! Most people don't know it, but the features that browser's have today, came from Opera. Multiple tabs, private browsing, saved sessions, popup/content blocker, mouse gestures and a great built-in e-mail client. There is more, just to many to list. Otter is the best browser holding on to the features and traditions that made Opera 12.18 great. Otter lets you customize it's look and feel any way you want. It's light and fast and has become very stable. In the past it was pretty buggie, but no longer is that the case. Most of the work on it has been under the hood. For that reason, Otter isn't the best looking girl at the dance. Going so far as to say, it has a face made more for radio. It's a work in progress that's coming along very nicely. After a coat of paint and hanging some curtains Otter will be everything Opera lost.

kusarebaita
Dec 6, 2024
0

It's a very promising project, we do need solid, independent browsers like Otter in this crazy age of spying and bloatware. But the development seems really slow and at times people wonder if it's even alive at all.

TBayAreaPat
Nov 12, 2022
1

Cute and fast with some interesting privacy tactics including User Agent masks. Allows personal add-on user scripts. However, without standard extensions/add-ons, it's not something most would want to jump into. Tab/bookmark bar is tiny.. not sure how to fix,and it doesn't allow theming. Not sure about security updates. "The browser currently runs on the QtWebEngine, which is a version of Blink, the web engine used by Chromium. "

HnauHnakrapunt
Jun 14, 2019
0

I marked Opera as 'not an alternative', because it would spoil the fun of Otter's simplicity (or make you curse you have not used Opera earlier, depending on your needs).

m4sk1n
Apr 16, 2017
5

It works very nice on my PC, it's very customizable. I don't like the way that almost every modern browser goes, so this is product for me.

What is Otter Browser?

Web browser controlled by the user, not vice-versa.

Otter Browser is a project aiming to recreate best aspects of classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5. Its primary objective is to become haven for power users that cannot stand what happened to Opera after ditching Presto engine. Otter will be not a monolithic browser, it is designed to be very modular, going so far that you could replace whole bookmarks manager or history viewer in the future.