Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Open Source, Browsers
Webkit-based Arora browser hits v.10, now ships with AdBlock by default
by Lee Mathews Oct 6th 2009 at 1:00PM
Not familiar with Arora? It's a lightweight, cross-platform, open-source, Qt and Webkit-based browser. Brad first wrote about it back in July, and the development team has already rolled out one pretty significant addition.
Starting with v.10 -- which is now available for Windows, Linux, and Mac -- Arora ships with AdBlock pre-installed. Unlike Opera and Konqueror which allow for manual blocking by default, Arora utilizes subscription-based blocking out-of-the-box. Arora's developers claim this is a first for web browsers.
Arora also now includes a wallet (or password store) feature and a handy set of address completion hotkeys: ctrl + enter appends .com, ctrl + shift +enter adds .org, and shift + enter does .net. The new version also includes a number of bugfixes, which you can read about in more detail on the official blog.
Even with two fairly key additions, Arora remains very nimble and easy on system resources.
Starting with v.10 -- which is now available for Windows, Linux, and Mac -- Arora ships with AdBlock pre-installed. Unlike Opera and Konqueror which allow for manual blocking by default, Arora utilizes subscription-based blocking out-of-the-box. Arora's developers claim this is a first for web browsers.
Arora also now includes a wallet (or password store) feature and a handy set of address completion hotkeys: ctrl + enter appends .com, ctrl + shift +enter adds .org, and shift + enter does .net. The new version also includes a number of bugfixes, which you can read about in more detail on the official blog.
Even with two fairly key additions, Arora remains very nimble and easy on system resources.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Sridhar said 1:51PM on 10-06-2009
"handy set of address completion hotkeys: ctrl + enter appends .com, ctrl + shift +enter adds .org, and shift + enter does .net."
1. Not sure if anyone remembers and uses the key combinations other than ctrl+enter
2. ctrl+enter .com address completion is taken as default in a web browser, isn't it? Mentioning it as a 'feature' sounds odd.
Reply
Drew Green said 1:55PM on 10-06-2009
A Webkit browser with built in ABP!?!? Why doesn't Chrome have this?
...Oh yea, nevermind!
Reply
Grant Robertson said 5:39PM on 10-06-2009
Yah, I have to say.. As much as I've been pro publishing stories about AdBlock (much to the dismay of some of my other content creating friends who also make their living in the industry) I'm not very happy to see this. Not that this one Webkit browser is the end of the world, but we as content people really need to be diligent about not pissing people off with annoying ads. Unfortunately, we're not all that scrupulous, and we (the good ones) pay for them (the people who slap you with crap like)
"Congratulations!"
So starts the second round of cat and mouse.
Jamus said 3:36PM on 10-06-2009
I have tried to talk out install teams into bundling AdBlock into the desktop image from the start, but no go so far. It would keep out so much of the reloading and crap installs we get hit with.
Reply
Abdo said 3:44PM on 10-06-2009
I'm still getting ads.
Also, right-click where?
Reply