rekonq Web Browser

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Description:

rekonq is a web browser for KDE based on WebKit.

Last changelog:

7 years ago

rekonq 2.4.2
- clear urlbar action added
- global zoom settings added
- faster suggestions in the urlbar
- work around favicons
- default tab width changed
- doc update
- bugfixes

rekonq 2.4.0
- added a simple ssh sync handler
- adblock improvements
- work on startup settings: load important things before, UI and then last things in the background
- bugfixing

rekonq 2.3.2
- bugxifing

rekonq 2.3.0
- bookmarks && history panels
- work on web view contextual menus
- activities support (at least being activities aware on opening windows)
- activity daemon support (notifying there url && window title)
- private browsing: stop saving sessions (fix) && sharing sessions cookies by tabs of the same window
- open url as webapp option
- session saving (load/save/rename sessions)
- some work on respecting one more of the thousand millions kde "wide" settings
- urlbar look change (not finished). SSL icon on the left as major browsers. coloring url text (yet) missing
- Favorites (fast) management, the "opera" way (bye bye "love" icon)
- appmenu-qt support
- fixes fixes fixes.

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megabigbug
11 years ago

I modify rekonq to add a button-menu for bookmarks and an other to replace the menu.

Here a screenshot:
http://forge.info.univ-angers.fr/~lionelc/images/rekonq_screenshot.png

What do you think about it ?
Do you think we can hide the menu by default ?

You can find it on my rekonq clone repository:

http://gitorious.org/~megabigbug/rekonq/megabigbug-clone

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megabigbug
11 years ago

Hello,

what do you think of this mockup ?

http://forge.info.univ-angers.fr/~lionelc/images/rekonq.png

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sebastiang
11 years ago

Very good idea I think. All this wasted space is a general problem today I think. Increasing screen resoltion can't be the answer for always :)

Especially the idea with the status bar is interesting. Just like Chromium does.

1 critical thing is this new tab button: I don't know what to think about this issue in Firefox 3.5: A lot of users surf in one tab only. And if that is the case they don't use the whole line. So that's the greatest waste of space for these users (and in fact for tab users starting a new session with only one tab).

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megabigbug
11 years ago

"All this wasted space is a general problem today I think. Increasing screen resoltion can't be the answer for always :)"

It is not only a question of wasted space.

The first impression with Chrome, IE, Safari, is better than Firefox, Konqueror, Rekonq or Arora because it seems easier.

The question is: how rekonq can give this first impression but also be powerful and adaptable ?

"1 critical thing is this new tab button: I don't know what to think about this issue in Firefox 3.5: A lot of users surf in one tab only. And if that is the case they don't use the whole line. So that's the greatest waste of space for these users (and in fact for tab users starting a new session with only one tab)."

I agree with you this is a problem for these users. I am not sure, but I think most people prefer tabs. If it is the case, it must be set by default but must be easily changed.

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SeaJey
11 years ago

BTW how about to use this icon:

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Konqueror+icon?content=90303

Originally it was for Konqueror but konq have even nicer icon now.

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jojjo1969
11 years ago

why this new browser ?
What's the target ?

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jackiebrown
11 years ago

That's what I used to say about dolphin.

Sometimes a "side" project becomes something amazing

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Elv13
11 years ago

Have a KDE WebKit browser (Arora is Qt only), having a KDE application -dedicated- exclusively to web browsing and bring new feature like 1 process per tabs that are not possible with Konqueror.

Firefox is still better, I love many extension and can't live without (almost ;) ). A Qt XUL-ui exist in firefox 4 mercurail branch. I wonder how much effort it would take to make an API compatibility layer to use those extensions in rekonq?

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sebastiang
11 years ago

> "A Qt XUL-ui exist in firefox 4 mercurail branch"

Are you shure? Never heard of this? Do you have any source for that?

If this is the case you should hurry with rekonq to win me over for it ;)

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mickhs
11 years ago

I'd just like to add my thanks also. A neat and fast browser that does the job well.

One disappointment is lack of java support, but it's early days yet!

Also, when I click your souceforge link in About rekonq, it opens in Konqueror!

Thanks again and keep up the great work.

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faelbluhm
11 years ago

Is to provide you a link to download a .deb?

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vanyar
11 years ago

I've installed Rekonq from Sources in Ubuntu 8.10 using KDE 4.2 with QT4.5 and Bespin style but without the xbar widget. I can't see the menubar and I don't know how to make it appear. Ctrl+Alt+m does not work.

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mickhs
11 years ago

To fix this, right click in toolbar area and bring up Toolbar Menu. Click on Configure Toolbars. Scroll down to Show Menubar and add it to Current actions. Click Apply.

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vanyar
11 years ago

Thank you, that worked.

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Skripka
11 years ago

Could we ad proxies working, such as Privoxy? As of the 0.1a build they are not working...at least with the Privoxy defulats of:

127.0.0.1
port 8118

It keeps getting better :>)

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inktomi
11 years ago

I signed up specifically to thank you. I really like that rekonq is just a browser and not a gazillion things.

The progress bar in the address bar is awesome.

Some suggestions/bugs:
- Maybe make the address bar accept searches and maybe show history. The Search box on the right becomes redundant.
- The "Zoom Text Only" option is unchecked but still only text is zoomed
- Add middle clicking on a tab closes it.
- Currently frame widths cannot be adjusted (ex. Google Images).
- The fonts on webpages are smaller than they should be. Also the buttons, on webpages are as wide as the text. (I don't know if these are webkit issues)
- Hotmail does not allow you to click on an email to open it (Webkit issue?)

Keep up the good work

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adjam
11 years ago

eh eh... thank you for your time to register and write your comment.
I'm really glad to read something like that.
Hope I can implement and/or fix your wishes.

Cheers,

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mathetes
11 years ago

Im really impressed! Surely this is not just a one man work, is it? If i can make a suggestion... You should change the app icon as those things really matter and its not good (I dont know who did it but im just trying to help ;)

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adjam
11 years ago

Yeah, it's just me.. until now. There are three new developers helping me on it from this release.
The icon has been done from.. a child! Feel free to help me providing a better one ..;)

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faelbluhm
11 years ago

Could you combine the address bar and progress bar?, as in Arora and Safari. This
would be great for notebooks such as my own.

ps: My english depends Google Translator.

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adjam
11 years ago

Done ;)

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Skripka
11 years ago

Good work-1 thing that is keeping me from wanting to use your browser...session management in some form.

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jnt
11 years ago

I already love it since it really is lightening fast!
Due to the aforementioned small text size bug though it's not ready for daily use yet, but i'm really looking forward to that!

As for wishes: adblocking would be nice, but really isn't critical. and maybe a few config options for the tabs. I like it for example to have them opened in the background. (and there's a small bug?: if you click on the home button with your middle mouse button it doesn't open that page like in konqueror)

Just keep up the great work and this will be the best browser on a kde desktop in no time!

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fictitious
11 years ago

Great browser, really looking forward to when it matures properly

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smihael
11 years ago

http://download.tuxfamily.org/debplasmorep/packages/rekonq_0.0.4-1_amd64.deb

The .deb was built using my plasmoid2deb tool on Kubuntu Jaunty amd64.

I'm sorry but I'm not able to test my packages on original Debian (I like it better), because of several problems with my hardware configuration on it...

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