KDE's Rekonq Web-Browser Nears 1.0 With Beta

Posted by Michael Larabel on July 10, 2012

Rekonq, the promising KDE WebKit-powered web-browser, is nearly ready for its version 1.0 release.

One month after the Rekonq 1.0 Tech Preview release, Rekonq 1.0 Beta is now available, as mentioned on a Rekonq developer's blog. It's also been confirmed on the project's mailing list.

Among the features of this open-source KDE web-browser that relies upon QtWebKit is a simpler and standalone design compared to KDE's Konqueror, tabbed browsing support for plug-ins, proxy support, ad block for those not supporting publishers, sync support, and other features.

KDE Rekonq 1.0 Beta can be downloaded from their current (temporary and simple) rekonq.kde.org web-site.

Discuss this article in our forums, IRC channel, or email the author. You can also follow our content via RSS and on social networks like Facebook, Identi.ca, and Twitter (@Phoronix and @MichaelLarabel). Subscribe to Phoronix Premium to view our content without advertisements, view entire articles on a single page, and experience other benefits.
Latest Hardware Reviews
  1. Sumo Lounge Emperor
  2. Gallium3D Continues Improving OpenGL For Older Radeon GPUs
  3. 15-Way Open vs. Closed Source NVIDIA/AMD Linux GPU Comparison
  4. Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux Comparison Shows Shortcomings
Latest Software Articles
  1. Intel Linux OpenGL Driver Leading Over Apple OS X
  2. The Cost Of Ubuntu Disk Encryption
  3. Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. XFS vs. F2FS On Linux 3.10
  4. AMD Radeon R600 GPU LLVM 3.3 Back-End Testing
Latest Linux News
  1. AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D Begins Simple CL Demos
  2. Intel Shows Off GNOME3-Based Tizen Shell
  3. Linux Desktop Security Could Be A Whole Lot Better
  4. KDE 4.11 Will Be The Last Major KDE4 Workspaces Feature Release
  5. New NVIDIA Linux Driver Supports The GeForce GTX 780
  6. Chrome 28 To Offer More Speed Improvements
  7. Digia Announces "Boot To Qt" Project
  8. X.Org Libraries Hit By Round Of Security Issues
  9. Wayland's Weston Gets Output Scaling Support
  10. Raspberry Pi Gets New Wayland Weston Renderer
  11. Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 Release Brings New Packages
Latest Forum Talk
  1. AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D Begins Simple CL Demos
  2. Intel Shows Off GNOME3-Based Tizen Shell
  3. AMD Radeon R600 GPU LLVM 3.3 Back-End Testing
  4. Linux Desktop Security Could Be A Whole Lot Better
  5. Microsoft's zombie attacks Android (again)
  6. Raspberry Pi Gets New Wayland Weston Renderer
  1. Computers
  2. Display Drivers
  3. Graphics Cards
  4. Motherboards
  5. Peripherals
  6. Processors
  7. Software
  8. Operating Systems
  9. All Articles
  1. Linux Benchmarking
  2. OpenBenchmarking.org
  3. Phoronix Test Suite