Monthly Archives: January 2020

Minimal Browser v2 released.

Minimal Browser v2 is released. Below, a list of notable changes is presented with a screenshot. The code is available on project´s Github page.

Licensing changes: Dual licensing model:

GPL v2 is upgraded to GPL v3. Also adding Apache v2 license as an alternative possibility if GPL v3 is not desired.

Features added by v2.

  • Google as a search engine.
  • Zoom in and out buttons added.
  • Web-inspector added.
  • Browsing now accepts: www.some_address.something OR https://some_address.something
  • Save file or object: Saves whatever is listed on addressbar location. Using Wget via QProcess.
  • Tooltips for buttons.
  • Gui is redesigned and has darker colors now.
  • Javascript set to enabled.
  • Installed system plugins set to enabled.
  • PrivateBrowsingEnabled,true.
  • SpatialNavigationEnabled,true.
  • Accelerated2dCanvasEnabled,true.
  • AcceleratedCompositingEnabled.
  • AutoLoadImages,true.
  • ScrollAnimatorEnabled,true.
  • DeveloperExtrasEnabled,true.
  • FullScreenSupportEnabled,true.
  • WebGLEnabled,true.
  • JavascriptCanOpenWindows,true.
  • LocalContentCanAccessRemoteUrls, true.

Simple Terminal released

Simple Terminal is rxvt-unicode Pyqt5 terminal implementation with less than 20 lines of code.

Dependencies

Requires pyqt5 and python3 installed. Packages vary upon distributions.

Requires rxvt-unicode to be installed. Can also be named as urxvt depending on a distribution.

Functionalities include the standard rxvt-unicode functionalities. Customizations are done with Xresources file, which is supplied with the project.

For more information and download, see Simple Terminal Github project page.