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AroraPortable Development Test 3

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Zach Thibeau
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(Homepage) - December 26, 2008 - 1:49am

Application: Arora Web Browser
Category: Internet
Description: Arora is a simple cross platform web browser. Currently Arora is a very basic browser whose feature list includes things like "History" and "Bookmarks". But it is small, less than 10,000 lines of code, very fast, lean, mean and loads of fun to hack on. Arora and QtWebKit is developed to be cross-platform using the Qt library. It was originally created as a demo for Qt to help test the QtWebKit component and find API issues and bugs before the release. An older version can still be found in Qt's source code in the demo/browser directory. Arora works on Linux, OS X, Windows, FreeBSD, and embedded Linux using Qt Embedded. For more information check out the Arora Goals wiki page.

Download Arora Portable 4.0 Development Test 3 [7.02MB download / 8.70MB installed]
(MD5: 70964bbb6cff84d1b311f837c84ed0f3)

Release Notes:

Development Test 3 (2008-12-26):

  • Since people are experiencing crashes removed upx compression to see if it helps
  • updated Version info
  • Fixed some stuff in the appinfo.ini file

Development Test 2 (2008-12-26):

  • Now fully UPX'd (didn't work the first time around)

Development Test 1 (2008-12-26): Initial release


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QT 4.5?

Plugin support won't exist until it starts being built with QT 4.5. I've used the Win32 dev builds and it does indeed seem like a very fast and lean browser. I see your version is Arora 4.5. If it means that it was built with QT 4.5 I would like to know.

I'm not trying to sway anyone from using this or even taking the time to make this a portable app, in fact I would like to see this added to the lists of portable apps. If it's not built with QT4.5 don't expect being able to go to any site that requires any sort of plugin (YouTube for example).

I tried your test build, it crashed while starting up on my Vista x64 Home Premium laptop.

Cool!

Now we have a Gecko and a WebKit browser!
Seems good, but it crashes on my Wine install (the browser itself doesn't start, the launcher starts and some seconds later it closes, so I assume that the problem is on the browser itself, or on WINE itself).

But keep up the great work, this will attract lots of Web Developers. Eye-wink

#tuna { color: silver; smell: delicious; }

The finer PAF details:

In the end I gave them to Zach Thibeau on IRC... look at the IRC logs to find them Sticking out tongue

Edit: ptmb, robojerk, everyone: DT2 is broken, its compression broke it after all Sad

I am a Christian and a developer and moderator here.

“A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” – Proverbs 15:1

Updated to Development Test

Updated to Development Test 3

your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau

0.4

uh... it's 0.4, not 4.0 :/

I'll try it again soon Smiling but not today.

I am a Christian and a developer and moderator here.

“A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” – Proverbs 15:1

Thanks.

I'll try it out now! Laughing out loud

Siggys waste Bandwidth... that's why I have one.

Thanks for sharing :)

Good browser; but there is a problem, the Cache is not in (usb:\AroraPortable\Data) but in (c:\Users\name\AppData\Local),if you change pc no longer the history.

Thanks

PS : Sorry for my English

thanks I'll work that fix in

thanks I'll work that fix in the next release

your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau

Arora has been updated

Arora for windows was updated Feb 21, 2009.

http://www.arora-browser.org/

Seems much more stable.

Arora 0.6 released

Built with Qt 4.5 (plugin support)
Released March 29th

Zach Thibeau, Is this still

Zach Thibeau, Is this still being worked on?

"It's just an online installer. It's not going to mug you.", JTH
"The shell is the key to unlock Linux's greatest advantages."

Could you update it on Arora 0.10.2

probably Qt 4.6 or Qt 4.7 dev
thx