![]() ![]() Qupzilla certainly is not the best web browser in the world in its current state. I haven't had a crash from it yet, but at one point it wiped all of my speed dial entries. The project is relatively new and bugs are being worked out. Userscripts do work but they may not work exactly right. This was the only real dealbreaker for me. In fact, my beloved spell check doesn't work. The addons including by default are ported by the developers and may not be fully functioning. The web browser has an extension system, but almost nobody is developing extensions that work with Qupzilla. Of course, like any project it has its disadvantages too. I've talked a bit to the developers, and they are all very nice people The developers and anybody interesting in helping the project (as wellĪs just normal users) should join #qupzilla on the freenode IRC network. The project is open-source and listed on github. Update (which are somewhat frequent) brings some new and excitingįeature along with it. Qupzilla is not to that point of maturity yet. A feature that I found to be very interesting was the ability to pass off an external program and parameters as the download manager. Like Firefox, Qupzilla has a download manager. ![]() Flash playing support is installed by default. ![]() The search bar AND omnibar can both use different search engines depending on a set preference dialog or a key-letter like "g" for google or "d" for duckduckgo. The IP address of a loaded page and the progress of loading is shown in the status bar. There are also other features in the browsing experience that make it unique. Because of Qupzilla's use of Webkit and how it works with the operating system the memory usage should be FAR lower per-tab than any other major web browser. I am on a slow connection and I was able to take note of the speeds that were achieved with webkit. For playing video and game content, HTML 5 and Flash both work perfectly. Qupzilla can import bookmarks from most major browsers. A dialog for notifications is also including, and I was impressed at how well it integrated with free-desktop compliant notifications as well as OSD just like a more mature project like clementine does. A bunch of goodies are packed into here, including network proxy configurations, notifications, the password manager, and the download manager. Going to edit>preferences brings up a terse set of menus for configuring your web browser. The Linux theme integrates with you Qt theme specified in qt4-qt4config (run with qtconfig).Ĭonfiguring Qupzilla is similar to configuring Firefox. They try to mimic the appearance of a theme for a certain operating system. The browser comes with a few themes installed by default. Themes are installable like in other browsers. Greasemonkey, a personal information handler, a speed dial (pictured, and adblock are all installed from the get-go. The web browser has multiple addons installed by default. Other than the great support it has other advantages: That is better support than Google Chrome and it's only a year old. Windows, OS X, and any major Unix are all eligible. Every operating system that has a Qt port and webkit can run Qupzilla. ![]()
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