Adblocking should be included in the goals as for many users (including me) a browser without adblocking is unusable. That's the main reason I don't use Safari and why I search for alternative WebKit? browsers as I am annoyed by recent Firefox and also Opera versions. KDE4-Konqueror under Windows is not really the alternative. Of course, at the moment Arora doesn't support Flash so the worst ads are already not there :)

Adblock should be a "priority extension". A KISS -approach to design is really appealing. A kind of extension I'd really like to see would be "D-Bus Integration" and a simple way to switch off most non-core features (screen real estate is precious, sometimes one doesn't really want statusbar, search entry, toolbar or search input onscreen).

Thank you so much, i plan to switch to arora from firefox once flash is supported, and maybe a "live bookmark" feature/extension is added. I find the live bookmarks (optional) to be the key firefox feature for me.

Thanks for this new Browser. I use it since 3 weeks on my Debian Box + Xfce. Many people forgot that when they mention Kde, Gnome. :-( . I think if Xfce's developers should include a light browser as Arora, it sould be great.

Also, i hope you will develop a better editing for bookmarks, and also, a close button on each tab, if it's possible. ;-)

Arora seems very promising. Can you package it for the amd64 architechture too. I am unable to try it out.

Now playing in Debian and Windows ! I've installed qt-snapshot as mentionned in other page. I noticed, in particular in Debian, that i must have qt-4.5.0 installed otherwise i cannot see new features like the close button on each tab ; this mean that many people using 'Unics" won't see this since they got a Stable QT... Otherwise, the first item in the left on the tab bar, "create new tab", was nice and it disapered !!! Hope it will re-apear one day ;-)

I also got some trouble in the begining with windows + Qt 4.4.1 + mingw32 + Git.... But as i said i follow the procedure to use MS Visual 2008. Then it works fine.

Thanks.

I built packages for Arora on AMD64 but I don't know how where I can upload them.

Only the sentence "Arora hopes to never become another Mozilla" is enough to hope Arora go forward. Mozilla IS a single desktop browser (I simply can't run Firefox in Linux as well as I do in Windows).

Upload it to mediafire dominik... mediafire.com or sourceforge

Thank you for a fast and small browser.

I would very much like support for url rewrite extensions to enable search in the addressbar, like in konqueror.

A simple way to do that would be to call the plugin when enter (or equalent) is pressed in the addessbar. The plugin would get the contents of the addessbar as an argument to a method and return a replacement url (or the original if no replacement needs to be done).

and btw. webkit trunk+qt 4.4.4+flash+linux crashes with an assertion error after it can't find a sound wrapper (but works with other non webkit browsers)

Wery suprized of fast speed of arora. Need an autofilling of entry fields with typed words in this fields. I think that it's not so hard feature.

I'm very impressed by the speed. I'd love to see some of the features of chrome (JS engine, multi-process tabs, threading) getting ported back to Arora.

Well, I'm impressed. I could not view my Google Docs in Kubuntu, or see my nice Gmail theme, OR add to my Google Notebook, in Konqueror. And I really, REALLY did not want to install firefox and deal with the weight of all the gnome libraries. If I have Kubuntu, I don't want to rely on Gnome to make it work. And thanks to Arora, that dream might just be realized. It's absolutely wonderful, looks beautiful, and I hope it'll only get better. Perhaps add flash support for Youtube videos (unless it has it already? I'm new to it, and I'm still looking around for that answer). Then it'd be perfect enoguh for me! Keep up the amazing work, and thanks for making this available for not just Kubuntu users.

[edit[ Well, actually the Google Notebook works, with the Google Notebook bookrmarklet. However, I can't manually add notes (and I wouldn't prefer to, either), but I pointed it out to show the feature missing in Aurora. But being able to use the Google Notebook bookmarklet is invaluable, and again I congratulate the efforts of the developers :)

Could be great if I can minimize it to tray and be able to use the logmein client software in Arora as well.

ARORA IS GREAT , THE BROWSER IS SPLENDID.........I DID INSTALL IN UBUNTU INTREPID IT WORKS FAST .......................

Well, I hope you stay true to your goals, since Firefox once had the same 'The Extension system should allow for many features to be implemented outside of the browser' attitude :) Rock on!

Could you make a binary for Win3x. It can run win32 programs if you use win32 for win3x?

Could somebody help me get arora to use my native kde theme. I compiled arora with qt-snapshot and it doesn't pick up my native theme. thanks in advance.

I'd like to see the equivalent of AdBlock?, CS Lite and NoScript? functionality. Those are the things I consider absolutely necessary for any browser to be useful.

It would be great if a password manager is also included into this browser. I am looking for ways to do it. If any one has any suggestions please let me know

I hope Arora can be launched in "minimal" mode, with no UI elements besides the viewport (actually a menu bar is acceptable for me because it would display on the top of screen in Mac style, but please don't have a status bar like Mozilla Prism). Prism is slow to launch for me in KDE, and I don't like having to "create an application" to use it, since you can just use the system's menu editor and a shell script/batch file to do the same thing.

Actually, I'd say most of your goals are already achieved. All you need to do is spread the word! The one feature I'd like to see is am Opera style "wand" system, where the browser can auto-enter usernames and passwords, and also possibly a choice of embedded search engines.

When I go to a secure (https) web site, I'd like to be able to view the certificate. Right now there is no way to differentiate between http and https except for a manual inspection of the address bar.

Also, something in the "Preferences" which would let me control which encryption mechanism to use and which not to use.

Arora's engines (HTML/CSS and JS) seem very fast, but browsing seems not so fast. Could this be because of "network latency"? It seems like it doesn't use pipelining to make several http requests in parallel. Implementing this would make pages load much faster and would allow Arora to take advantage of its fast engines. Google Chrome does this by default. Firefox doesn't do it by default, but allows you to configure it in about:config (or by using Fasterfox extension).

Having spelling check and flash transparency would be great too :)

Just wanted to say that after playing around with Arora for a while, it's my current Linux browser of choice. It's very fast and nice to look at; I also appreciate the desire to not see this browser turn into a Mozilla (even Firefox seems kind of bloated these days, ironically). I look forward to seeing how the browser grows. Thanks to all involved.

I want arora-0.7 to work on wince6.0, and i have tried to compile the source code arora-0.7 with the dev-env vs2005+QT-wince-opensource-4.5.2, but it failed all the time.So, do anyone could tell me, whether my work is possible and how can i do to complete it?