Arora is a simple cross platform web browser. Currently Arora is a very basic browser whose feature list includes things like "History" and "Bookmarks". When using Qt 4.4 Arora does not have support for netscape plugins, but if you use qt-snapshot then it will work. But it is small, less than 10,000 lines of code, very fast, lean, mean and loads of fun to hack on. Arora and QtWebKit is developed to be cross-platform using the Qt library. It was originally created as a demo for Qt to help test the QtWebKit component and find API issues and bugs before the release. An older version can still be found in Qt's source code in the demo/browser directory. Arora works on Linux, OS X, Windows, FreeBSD, and embedded Linux using Qt Embedded.… More Edit
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Did you create this app?| Website: | arora-browser.org/ |
| Developer: | icefox |
| License: | Open source |
| Version: | 0.9.0 |
| Rating: | Features: Interface: Performance: Price/value: Overall: |
| Usage: | 2 weeks, 2 days, 18 hours, 3 minutes and 51 seconds |
| Usage since: | 27 May 2008 |
| Platform Usage: |
Linux
(83%) |
Really fast. Nice alternative to Chrome since it can still be buggy at times.
I like that polar bear. :D
Nice for Windows-Linux but not my first option... yet. I'm still using Firefox (Linux) and Chrome (windows)
True Apple Safari for Linux
Forget the comparisons of Konqueror to Safari
just give it a brushed metal theme and they would be almost completely the same
Too simple and similar to mozilla on inteface, i like every browser with their own think, if they improve i'd use it. But now, i won't change my Opera (L)
Arora is a pretty nice, rendering and printing is absolutely neat, but don't use the inbuilt google search or clear your spam on gmail (on 0.7.0 that is), those are the 2 places where is crashes almost every time.
Arora is a cross-platform lightweight WebKit Browser.
At first glance i enjoyed the concept. Having such a light browser based on such a powerful rendering engine seemed like a dream come true but things aren't what they seem.
I did a simple real-world test:
Opened 6 tabs on Arora 0.7.1 and the same tabs on my custom (read packed with addons) Firefox 3.0.11. To my big surprise Arora in idle was using up more CPU time then Firefox while still loading the pages. After loading Firefox CPU time dropped to 0-1% while Arora was still eating up 50%. I closed my main suspect, the iGoogle page and CPU usage dropped, but with 5 tabs remaining Arora was still using up 116Mb ram vs Firefox's 95mb.
This was done on a 32 bit Win7. No navigation involved, just 6 tabs opened and Firefox had the disadvantage of plugins and addons. Mozilla has several years of memory leak repairs behind it so i'm willing to give Arora another try later on but right now it's not what i'm looking for!
nice browser, but too simple yet =(
Some webpage's thinks this is an Safari browser, and that's because it's based on an Webkit API.
very light, too much basic.
nice browser that promises potential!
Have some troubles with the interface font, don't respect the original from the website maybe because is a cross platform app.
Doesn't use a lot of memory.
Constantly crashes on Win2000 at my work. I'll try linux version at home.
Nice light KDE/Qt browser.