Here we are, ready to announce the immediate availability for first technologic preview of rekonq 0.9 (rekonq 0.8.71). Here you’ll find a first view of the impressive list of news ready for the upcoming release.
In this post I’ll try to explain what we cooked for rekonq 0.9: I hope that, given the right testing/cleaning/bugfixing period we can provide the smoother and lighter browsing experience.
Here is the full list of news you’ll find in rekonq 0.9:
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rewamped urlbar suggestions mechanism, trying to guess as soon as possible your typed site, but also showing all possible desired sites. I just blogged about here and here and I find it is a nice improvement
- refactored User Agent code and UI.
- sync support, with a full sync mechanism for passwords, bookmarks and history. sync handler for 0.9 will include just ftp sites (eg: remote owncloud installations), but several people is just working to provide in the next series a lot of alternatives (that are: mozilla sync, remote git repo, google bookmarks, WebDAV, Digg.)
- web applications support. Why explain things when you have a video about?
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Rewamped webkit settings.
- add “tabs” in the rekonq pages, given an easy way to manage tabs. Probably not the best mechanism, but easy and fast.
- improves in download management and in the download page, showing when a file has been removed and when it really exists.
- icons retrieving fixes, now really working for all sites (you probably have to clear your favicon cache for that)
- Access keys, whose code has been imported from Arora and adjusted following konqueror’s implementation.
- User session management. So finally rekonq will restart well on KDE session restore.
Here you are. We now have a full month (or more, if needed) devoted to testing, bugfixing and improving rekonq performances. Please, help us testing 0.9 tech preview and reporting all bugs and/or unwanted behavior.
Enjoy rekonq 
The progress is excellent!
Keep up!
Thank you! The new features are great and the web application support is my personal favourite!
I’ve been a fan of rekonq since v.0.4. It’s a pity that, since Fedora 16, an unfortunate issue keeps me from using it as my main browser (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761342), but hopefully that will be resolved soon enough.
Just a note – the provided video shows a context menu in the URL bar for “Save it as a Web Application”, but I don’t see this currently. Did it get removed?
I found the option in the tools menu, but imho the context menu (or [also] in the tab context menu?) is a more useful way to do it.
I can’t wait to use it. Sounds wonderful! You guys are doing a great job!
Shiny! Can’t wait for it to hit the Chakra repo’s. The sync sounds like what Firefox Sync *should* have been… an *easy* way of keeping multiple computers bookmarks, passwords etc up to date. That said, I would love it if it would add the other feature that *should* have been in Firefox Sync… syncing which tabs are open in your session. If I close a tab on Rekonq on one computer, I want it closed on my other computers that have Rekonq open. Ditto when I open a tab.
Anyway, that little FF Sync rant aside, it looks like you’ve made huge progress. The new suggestions mechanism and web app support look great.
Kudos!
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@Ivaylo: that’s exactly the same problem I’m experiencing, and the reason I use Opera for some sites (especially news sites with a lot of flash ads). I hope that it will be fixed sooner or later, so I get the joy of browsing all the web with rekonq
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Any luck for extensions?
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Thanks, this will be a great release.
Have you considered adding support for opera link for sync?
Because they have a API and some documentation
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/introducing-the-opera-link-api/
Anyway, thanks for add synchronization, this is a great feature.
Sorry for my bad English.
Thanks for the note: adding to the roadmap! http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/rekonq/Roadmap#Planned_for_0.10
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Great work, thank you! Keep it on!
Each release gets better. Rekonq is now my primary browser, with Chromium taking up space only for a few odd-ball sites.
Regarding the sync… glad to see it coming. Something other FTP would be much more valuable, since none of the cloud-based services offer this. WebDAV would be a great choice, since (for example) Box.com supports it natively and both Google Docs and Dropbox allow it via a third-party app.
nice to hear
about the sync, ftp has been chosen just to test sync abilities. More other sync options will be offered in the next releases. (e.g. in 0.10 we are planning google bookmarks sync)
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