[svlug] New Webkit browser, blinding fast too

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi!

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:40 PM, James Sparenberg<james at linuxrebel.org> wrote:
> All,
>
>   I've been playing the last couple of days with a new webkit based
> browser (QT based) and man o man is it fast.  Time to open the app is
> sub 1sec and even dilbert.com (the most add infested page I know of) is
> able to open before I need to shave again.
>
>  URL is http://code.google.com/p/arora/ .  Project name is Arora.  It's
> a qmake build (binaries not available) and they are looking for
> contributors.  But heck even if all you want is a fast and lightweight
> (only about 3M installed)  The instructions to build are here.
> http://code.google.com/p/arora/wiki/BeginnerStepByStepInstructions  Have
> fun!
>

Out of curiosity, I tried to build it. I ran into this bug which I
reported (and right when it started):

http://code.google.com/p/arora/issues/detail?id=482

Otherwise, I was able to view the Hebrew Google site properly, which is good.

Regards,



> James
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