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RunIT-QT Browser 0.7 released

RunIT Browser (QWebEngine version) has reached its 0.7 version.

Notable improvements/changes:

new
  • Youtube and Netflix confirmed working on almost complete full screen mode.
  • Homepage is now pointing to StartPage search engine.
  • Window is resized to be larger and more useful from the beginning.
  • Addressbar improvements: google.com AND www.google.com AND https://google.com will resolve. -> https is auto appended into the front.
  • More verbosity added to statusbar(notices go back, go forward etc. functions on tabs).
  • UI is styled to be darker than before.
  • Tabs now have titles in them.
  • Back, forward etc. Now upgrade urlbar address like they should.
  • Ecosia replaces Wolfram Alpha on search engines.

Source code and more details are available at the Github: https://github.com/postman721/RunIT-QT_QWebengine

Minimal Browser2 (C++) released

Next version of Minimal Browser is released as a beta.

The beta release includes the following notable improvements/changes:

Features added by v2.5 beta

  • DuckDuckGo as search engine.
  • Tabbed browsing.
  • UI is redesigned.
  • Icons removed.
  • Searchbar is gone. Searching is done by writing search:<your_search> to addressbar and pressing Enter.
Minimal Browser2 UI.

Source code and full release notes are available on the projects Github page:

https://github.com/postman721/Minimal-Browser2

RunIT Browser advances to version 0.7 RC1

New version of RunIT Browser(Python+QT5) has been released.

I added the following functionalities to this release:

  • Numbered tabs.
  • Statusbar that shows what was last loaded and on what tab.

This release also fixes some minor stability and functionality issues.

Here is a screenshot.

0.7 RC1.

The code and further instructions can be found from the project´s GitHub page

RunIT-QT v. 0.6.3 arrives

#RunIT-QT Browser Copyright (c) 2015 JJ Posti <techtimejourney.net>
#RunIT-QT comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
#for details see: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
#This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
#GPL Version 2, June 1991
#This is the 0.6.3 version(March 2018)

0.6.3: Argument support is now fixed(See Github for the launcher script). Startpage is added as a default search engine, Privatelee is removed.

0.6.1:This release contains very notable coding changes. The browser is now separated into different modules and code is partially rewritten and commenting is improved. Layout issues have been resolved together with many memory management issues, which were present in the previous releases. The result should be a more robust and a lot more functional browser. The outlook has also received an upgrade via CSS. Many new features have also been added. And here are some screenshots.

0.6.1 version fixes rendering issues and increases stability. Resources like Youtube should now work fine. Continue reading →