Arora

Arora

Arora showing the Wikipedia homepage
Developed by	[1]
Latest release	0.4
Written in	C++
OS	Cross-platform, QT4
Available in	English
Type	Web browser
License	GNU General Public License
Website	arora-browser.org

Arora is a cross-platform free software web browser using the WebKit rendering engine to draw web content. It is built on top of version 4 of the Qt. It has a very a minimalistic and lightweight interface, tab management, simple history and bookmarks system and global user CSS.

Contents 1 History 2 Proxy support 3 References 4 See also 5 External links

History

The original codebase was written for Trolltech by Benjamin C Meyer ("icefox"), a Qt developer.

It was released as the Qt Demo Browser as part of Qt 4.4.0, demonstrating the capabilities of the then-new Qt-WebKit integration. After the release, Meyer forked the code and continued working on it independently, under the name Arora.^[1]

Proxy support

Arora can use a Socks5 or http proxy.

References

See also

• List of web browsers
• Comparison of web browsers

External links

• Arora homepage