rekonq

rekonq

rekonq 0.7.0 running on Kubuntu 11.04
Developer(s)	Andrea Diamantini and other KDE developers[1]
Initial release	December 2, 2008[2]
Stable release	2.4.2[3][4] (12 January 2014) [±]
Development status	Active
Written in	C++, Qt
Operating system	Cross-platform
Engine	WebKit
Platform	KDE Platform
Size	~1.1 MiB
Available in	Multilingual
Type	Web browser
License	GNU GPL v3[5]
Website	rekonq.kde.org

rekonq is a lightweight, QtWebKit-based web browser developed inside the free software project KDE. It is the default web browser of Chakra GNU/Linux,^[6] and was formerly of Kubuntu (between versions 10.10^[7] and 13.10^[8]). rekonq has been officially included in KDE Extragear since May 25, 2010.^[9] In contrast to Konqueror, a web browser and file manager also developed by KDE, rekonq aims to be a standalone and simple web browser. Its code was initially based on Qt Development Frameworks' QtDemoBrowser and is developed on KDE Projects' Git repository.^[10]

As of January 2014 there has been no further development of rekonq, and there is no manpower or sponsorship to restart.^[11]

Features

rekonq integrates into the KDE desktop, e.g. downloading files through KDE download system, sharing bookmarks with Konqueror, KIO support, etc. rekonq possesses most of the features of a modern web browser, specifically:

• Tabbed browsing
• Unique loading address bar
• Ad blocker
• Support for plugins (Flash, Java)
• Proxy support

rekonq uses the WebKit HTML rendering engine provided in QtWebKit.

See also

• Comparison of lightweight web browsers
• Comparison of web browsers
• List of web browsers
• List of web browsers for Unix and Unix-like operating systems

References

1. "rekonq authors". Retrieved 4 February 2011.
2. Andrea Diamantini (2 December 2008). "rekonq 0.0.1". Kde-announce-apps (Mailing list). Retrieved 2010-10-14.
3. "rekonq: Files". SourceForge. 12 January 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
4. Diamantini, Andrea (12 January 2014). "rekonq 2.4.2". adjam.weblog(). Retrieved 29 August 2014.
5. Andrea Diamantini. "rekonq license". Retrieved 4 February 2011.
6. "Chakra Edn 2011.11 review". LinuxBSDos. 2011-11-11. p. 1. Retrieved 2011-12-27. Unless you chose to install Firefox and/or Chromium during the installation process, the lone installed browser will be reKonq, a native Web browser for KDE.
7. Kubuntu.org (2010-10-10). "Kubuntu 10.10 Release".
8. "Kubuntu 14.04 LTS". Kubuntu.org. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
9. adjam (2010). "rekonq 0.5 beta, in extragear!".
10. https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/network/rekonq
11. "Lead developer's blog, adjam.weblog()". Retrieved 26 Feb 2016.