yes, it’s that time again… while some of us are working hard to renew our website, actually in maintenaince mode, my attention is completely devoted to our new piece of code: the upcoming 1.0 release! I was a bit reluctant, at the beginning, to move to the fatidical 1.0 release (in my original plans, that was for when rekonq will become an official slackware package…). But if I consider what we did since that day in December, 2008… well… we probably are ready for another step. Moreover the summer plans are for a complete code “review” that will drastically change what we have now and will prepare to the future fights… so, yes! Next will really 1.0! It’s just a number, after all. 
New features
So, what did we cook for such an important release? Here you are the new features list:
- sync: while rekonq can just sync bookmarks, passwords and history with an ftp site, sync bookmarks (just them for now) with google and opera services has been added. Work on this area is just planned and will see news on every release. News and code in this area are from Siteshwar Vashisht. So, Kudos to him!
- Fancy bookmarking: rekonq can now store (and share) infos about bookmarks via nepomuk. This is 2011 gsoc by Phaneendra Hegde (link). To say the truth, I changed a bit its code to let this become our first optional feature, that is enabled just if you compile rekonq with the nepomuk libraries installed. Moreover, if you do it but you don’t use nepomuk at all, rekonq just detect it on runtime (via dbus) and falls back to the usual structure.
- rekonq pages visual improvements: Favorites page (drag & drop added, ability to reload preview), Bookmarks page (rewamped), History page (faster load showing just 2 days as default, search feature), Downloads page (initial notifications on what is happening to the downloaded file, search feature).
- More options for “privacy” and some “advanced” settings.
- Default search engine check. If user has not a default search engine set, rekonq inform him.
- Included tab history when cloning a tab via the “clone tab” action
- adblock: better widget, letting users decide with 1 click what adblock subscriptions use (similar to konq)
- adblock icon in the urlbar triggering a new dialog letting users to unblock/show blocked/hided elements
- new action to block (and hide) images.
That’s it! Just let us fix and clean up our code and hopefully next month you’ll have a shining new rekonq version in your desktop!
Cannot wait for? Download it, compile it, run it, test it…
Nice list of features. Too bad there are no screenshot ^_^
You’re right, sorry for that. I’m an awful blogger, I know it…
Nice, rekonq has been my browser of choice for a while now. Nice to see it getting more excellent features!
Thanks a lot for your amazing work. Rekonq is probably the best-integrated Qt/KDE web browser as of now…
However, there’s still one major showstopper for me that can’t make me use it instead of chromium/firefox : rendering/scrolling performance.
Even on my high-end GPU using the proprietary NVIDIA blob, scrolling web pages with Rekonq, and especially with smooth scrolling is (very) sluggish while on chromium or firefox with smooth scrolling it’s almost always being smooth.
I really hope some love for hardware accelerated scrolling, 2D/canvas is planned because those are very important for comfortable web browsing noadays.
Best regards.
Great browser, adjam, it’s my default in the system since at least version 0.7.x. Though until version 0.9.x I had to use for a lot of websites Chromium instead, because they either weren’t rendered correctly in rekonq or were causing it to crash. Right now there seem to be very few sites that cause it to crash, but still plenty that have fairly poor performance. Also, while it works fine with non-free flash plugin it doesn’t seem to work at all with gnash or lightspark while other browsers do, which is also a bit disappointing as I’d like to keep my system completely free (as in speech). Also, is there some way I can show my appreciation of your work on most awesome KDE browser in a more tangible way? As in, to donate some?
I also feel the same about scrolling, it definitely needs improvement. Opera-11.6x/Firefox don’t use hardware acceleration but still scroll very smoothly.
I think rekonq also needs to improve on the memory management. I’ve tried midori browser which is based on GTKWebKit, it uses lesser memory as compared to rekonq and frees it much more often.
Firefox use hardware acceleration.
Congrats for this goal. I’m agree, too, that rekonq is the best kde browser, Don’t call me ungrateful if I ask about work on extensions support; some weeks ago you blogged about it, with a screenshot: any underground news about it?
Grazie e ciao
There are no really news about chrome extensions support. I just scheduled them for 2.0. During this summer I’ll spend time on it…
When will it be scheduled? In 2016?
As said, during summer I’ll spend time on it…
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Getting better and better!
And yes, the 1.0 is well deserved.
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Let me ask You to return previev in print dialog. In qt-demo browser there is an additional menu position. In previous versions of rekonq this was possible to preview before print.
I enjoy Your great work!!!
I also liked a lot the “preview-before-print” way as some versions ago. Unfortunately, we couldn’t in that way provide the whole kde print features. Just let me say that kde actual printing API… are poor. I hope there will be improvements for kde 5.0.
Hi, could you be a bit more specific about how the bookmarks are stored? Is there a NIE:Bookmark?I’m wondering if an akonadi resource (google/mozilla sync) coupled with a nepomuk resource watcher would be feasible for a centralized bookmark system…
Thanks!
How are they stored locally? Locally we share konqueror bookmarks file path, that is KDEHOME/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml.
I hope you bring back the text-only-zoom feature, I’ve been missing it for a while
Very nice, but what abou support for NoScript? I can’t use a browser on a daily basis without NoScript. Cheers
I don’t really know about it. It’s planned, but I can’t promise this summer will be implemented. Regards,
Thanks for reply, adjam. Fingers crossed for supporting it. For anyone who doesn’t know NoScript, check it out
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