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Arora: A light-weight, cross-platform web browser based on WebKit
by Brad Linder Jul 30th 2009 at 1:00PM
That's because Arora is built to work on any platform that supports the Qt toolkit. I first noticed Arora's existence when the folks at Canonical picked it as a possible default web browser for Kubuntu 9.10.
The browser has a couple of features that are all the rage with the kids these days, including full page zoom (as opposed to text-only zooming), and a private browsing mode that will let you surf without saving any cookies or other personal data to the hard drive. It's also relatively light on system resources, and boots and loads web pages reasonably quickly.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Sohier said 1:59PM on 7-30-2009
I have been using Arora on my HP Mini 1000 for the last three months under Linux Mint. Its the only web browser that does not slow down with more than 200 items in google reader on my wimpy atom.
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Tyler said 1:53PM on 7-30-2009
Doesn't hold a candle to Stainless on the mac, which is a shame.
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Ashish said 2:21PM on 7-30-2009
I have been using it on my winXP desktop for a few days now and I like it. the primary reason being that it loads almost as fast as notepad!
There is no reason to really use it as a preferred browser, given so many other excellent options, but, am glad to be a beta tester for another promising open source initiative.
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hmm said 4:57PM on 7-30-2009
qtweb (http://www.qtweb.net/) was another qt and webkit-based browser I once tried.
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Comboone said 6:40PM on 7-30-2009
Ouch!!! where do I start. Browser seriously flawed.
#1 find it hard to assign it as default browser
#2 Non -compatible with some keyboard functions - ctrl+ enter = .com
#3 ... ettc
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