QupZilla

I am happy to announce that QupZilla gets new project domain, qupzilla.com!
All credits and big thanks goes to Radomir Orkac, who also registered

• qupzilla.cz
• qupzilla.eu
• qupzilla.net
• qupzilla.org

You will be probably redirected from these domains to qupzilla.com.

If you can't connect to www.qupzilla.com, you may need to wait for your ISP to refresh DNS. It won't usually take more than one day.

So thanks again to Radomir Orkac and

Happy New Year to all of you!

Recent issue with installing "qupzilla" package from PPA has been fixed now.

  E: Package 'qupzilla' has no installation candidate

You can now install "qupzilla" and also "qupzilla-next" packages from PPA without any problems.

I am very sorry for any inconvenience.

And, as this is probably going to be my last post before 24th,

  Merry Christmas :)

I have recently created new package in QupZilla PPA "qupzilla-next".
This package is going to be updated quickly and will contain current development build of QupZilla.

If you want to help reporting bugs or you just want to use latest version, install it by following commands:

Add PPA to system:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nowrep/qupzilla

sudo apt-get update

Install package:

sudo apt-get install qupzilla-next

This package conflicts with stable "qupzilla", so it's not possible to have installed both of them.

Also please note, that this is development build, so it may (although I am trying to commit only tested changes) contain bigger or lesser bugs.

I am happy to announce release of new version, 1.1.0!

This month, December 2011, is connected with QupZilla not only by this release, but it is exactly one year since I started working on it.
And really a lot of work has been made since the very first release (if you saw it, you would agree with me).

Changelog

It is now possible for Ubuntu (and derivates) users to install QupZilla from its PPA.
The main advantage of this, as most of you know, that you will get updates with the rest of system automatically.

PPA is currently containing development snapshot of QupZilla, but don't worry to install it, there is a lot of new stuff totally worth it :-)
After next release (1.1.0), I will make 2 separate packages, qupzilla (stable) and qupzilla-next (development snapshots).

You can add PPA and install QupZilla with these commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nowrep/qupzilla

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install qupzilla

Launchpad site here

Hello, few days ago I was writing about initial speed dial mockup. I'm happy to announce that it is ready now :-)

Almost all has been implemented on html page side in Javascript and jQuery. jQuery offers very nice effects with just few lines of code. This was my first touch with jQuery library at all, so please don't judge me :-D
Page loading is very fast thanks to caching page thumbnails in profile directory. Actually, on my machine (64bit Debian on ThinkPad R61 with Core2Duo T8100 2,1 Ghz) page loads in 200ms and on very slow Toshiba netbook (32bit Windows 7 on old single core Atom) it loads in 2s.
Loading time on netbook is not ideal, though, but everything is very sluggish on Windows there, so that might have some influence on it too.

Changing of page background and keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl + 1, 2, ...) are not implemented yet.
While page background won't be problem, keyboard shortcuts will be quite tough. The main problem is laptop keyboards with lack of numerical block. In this case, clicking Ctrl + 1 emits Ctrl + + signal (and this keyboard is already registered to Zoom In). But I hope I'll manage to do it somehow.

You probably want to see some demonstration of how it works, so here you go:

After initial work by Daniele Cocca (jmc-88), I have been working on a mockup of speed dial for QupZilla.
Currently, I have working html page. Pages are in max 4 columns layout and unlimited rows now. If there is not enough space for 4 pages in row, layout will automatically switch to 3 columns.

What is not implemented yet?
Well, almost anything else. The only thing I have done is PageThumbnailer class (it is already in git). Javascript implementation on html side and C++ implementation on browser side is still missing.
But this feature will surely come to 1.1.0 release :-)

I think the design is sufficient enough to not to change very much in release. Just look by yourself!
(Facebook is hovered on screenshot)

Speed Dial

In this post, I'd like to show you what is going on in QupZilla development.

At first, I must highlight 2 new languages:

• Polish (Krzysztof Malinowski) - pl_PL.qm qt_pl.qm
• Spanish (Jorge Sevilla) - es.qm qt_es.qm

I'm happy to announce release first stable version of QupZilla, version 1.0.0.
I'd like to thank all of you, that send me bugreports, ideas and test QupZilla.
With your big help, I fixed a lot of crashes and tuned the features already available.

So what happened from 1.0.0-rc1?

- right click on back/next buttons opens menu
- passwords manager now hide all passwords by default
- added possibility to place folders on bookmarks toolbar
- rewritten fetching icons in bookmarks importing, it is now much faster
- added option to close download manager on finished downloads
- rss channels on page are now checked only once - improves loading performance
- improved error handling in download manager
- site info dialog and locationbar now supports showing content from data: url
- added a lot of new bookmarks, including bookmarks from multimedia keyboards
- fixed: duplicated entries in back/next menus
- fixed: synchronizing favicons between icon on tab and icon on location bar
- fixed: middle clicking on every links in app will open it in new tab (bookmarks, home button and so on)
- fixed: restoring more windows now won't add additional tab
- fixed: mouse clicks on flightradar24 page
- fixed: about dialog style in KDE
- fixed: vulnerability in showing ssl certificate informations
- fixed: performance of cookie manager
- fixed: highlighting of html code
- fixed: updating adblock easylist

As you can see, there is no big "wow" feature. I was focusing mainly on stability and usability in this version and I hope this was achieved.

So download it right now: qt-apps.org github.com

Don't hesitate to report any issues or feature request, as usual, on github issue tracker.

I am hapy to announce, that I have been officially approved as Qt Ambassador.

QupZilla now appear in Qt Ambassador Showcase :-)

There were some limitations in bookmarks, like impossibility to place folder on bookmarks toolbar or edit name of folder.
It is implemented in this commit.
I think it is sufficient enough, though you still cannot make subfolder in normal folder or subfolder in subfolder.

From now, bookmarks in toolbar are no longer present in Bookmarks Sidebar, as it is unnecessary and it also frees some space for your unsorted bookmarks.
This feature will be included in next version (1.0.0 stable)

Note: If you are building from git, you may need to either delete your profile (~/.qupzilla) or change your profile version to 1.0.0-b4 (in ~/.qupzilla/profiles/yourprofile/version file) in order to update your profile database.

You can check how it looks on following screenshots:

Toolbar with 2 subfolders

Bookmarks Manager

I received some complaints about showing user passwords in Preferences (link).
I can agree with that, so I have improved it in recent commit.

From now, passwords are by default hidden with "*****", and if you want to show them, you need to click Show passwords button and then agree, that you really want to. It's not ideal though, but to make it really secure, it would be necessary to crypt all passwords with main password.

You can see how it works in action at screenshots:

Passwords shown as ****

You must agree

You can see passwords now

I am happy to announce release of first release candidate.

I hope that this is going to be one and only RC before releasing first stable version 1.0.0. But before that, it is important to fix as much bugs as possible to finally achieve really stable version.
To do that, I need help from you, so please report any bugs (or even feature requests) you found in bug tracker at github here. Thank you very much!

1.0.0-rc1 changelog:

• possibility to delete click2flash object on page
• completely rewritten SSL Manager
• Search Engines Manager + OpenSearch support with suggestions
• add tab button is now shown next to last tab
• fixed: problem with bookmarks toolbar
• fixed: loading animation ending with page still loading
• fixed: occasional problem with updating address when going next/back in history
• fixed: crash when clearing history

You can download it from github.com or qt-apps.org.

QupZilla 1.0.0-rc1 on KDE

QupZilla 1.0.0-rc1 on Windows 7