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
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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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