Size of QtWebEngine

[Perdrix]

I am a bit gob-smacked at the size of QtWebEngine.

I was wondering why my .app was huge and drilled down in the folder structure.

The directory DeepSkyStacker.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtWebEngineCore.framework takes up over 500MB! QtWebEngineCore alone is 460MB

Why so humongous?

[cristian-adam]

Qt Creator team noticed that too, and that's why we are using https://code.qt.io/cgit/playground/qlitehtml.git/about/

It works fine for Qt Creator's documentation display needs.

[Perdrix]

Unfortunately litehtml won't work for me - I need function it doesn't provide :(

[JKSH]

@Perdrix said in Size of QtWebEngine:

Why so humongous?

Because it uses Chromium, and Chromium is humongous

[cristian-adam]

The alternatives would be:

1. QtWebKit. Last active 6 years ago.
2. ladybird. No idea if there is a Qt port.
3. servo. Written in Rust.

Any others?