Arora Web Browser

Arora is a simple, lightweight cross-platform web browser based on WebKit web browser engine, which has a small memory footprint. Can do some more sophisticated things can make a web browser. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit browser engine that was originally forked from KHTML, and now further developed by Apple, Motorola, Adobe, Trolltech and others. There is also cooperation between KHTML and WebKit, but only up to certain limits. WebKit developers who value real world web compatibility, standards compliance, stability, performance, security, portability, usability and relatively easy to understand. This is also an important part of their project that they can modify the code – also known as hackability.

However, given that the development continues at the current speed these features should be available soon. In the long term Arora could become a real competitor to Firefox: while it is also cross platform like Firefox it could actually adapt the native design of each platform thanks to Qt. Additionally, with intelligent chosen plugins it should be easy to integrate it into the platform (password storage, favourites, desktop search, etc.). Last but not least thanks to its origins it features a much smaller memory foot print and is simply faster than Firefox.

For KDE users it could be an interesting alternative to Konqueror to have a look at WebKit and simply as a stand alone browser inside KDE.

In case you want to give Arora a first test the easiest is to run Ubuntu (probably in a virtual machine) and install the precompiled binary. Since Arora does require quite recent Qt packages it can’t be compiled in Fedora 8, and even Fedora 9 might not be sufficient at the moment.

Arora Web Browser was filed at January 27th, 2010 under Tags: Linux,

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