What's new in rekonq 2.4.2
Jan 13, 2014
- The motivation for this fast update is an idea came out from a bugzilla discussion for an old request: the clear urlbar button.
New in rekonq 2.4.0 (Nov 16, 2013)
- Added a simple ssh sync handler, so that you can sync history, bookmarks and password over ssh
- Adblock improvements: faster startup setting load and domain-specific hiding support!
- A general work on startup settings: changed some defaults about HTML5 and WebGL, automatically loaded if available. Also, some small improvements on startup speed
- Bugfixing
New in rekonq 2.3.1 (Jun 24, 2013)
New in rekonq 2.3.0 (Apr 29, 2013)
- bookmarks && history panels
- work on web view contextual menus
- activities support (at least being activities aware on opening windows)
- activity daemon support (notifying there url && window title)
- private browsing: stop saving sessions (fix) && sharing sessions cookies by tabs of the same window
- open url as webapp option
- session saving (load/save/rename sessions)
- some work on respecting one more of the thousand millions kde "wide" settings
- urlbar look change (not finished). SSL icon on the left as major browsers. coloring url text (yet) missing
- favorites (fast) management, the "opera" way (bye bye "love" icon)
- appmenu-qt support
- fixes fixes fixes.
New in rekonq 2.1 (Jan 28, 2013)
- BUGS FIXED:
- kpart “half window” problem
- spellchecking (working against qtwebkit 2.3 beta1)
- webapp with window favicon
- default application’s locale for date formatting in history
- history ordering by date (and not by number of visits, sorry :D )
- one stupid crash while adding a favorite
- FEATURES BACK:
- restored usual web inspector position at the bottom
- option to open tab at the end
- restored bookmark middle click action
- edit toolbars
- shorcuts configuration panel
- NEW FEATURES:
- better kpart integration
- remove history items from history page
- improved icon management (snappier)
- some work to let work better Google Bookmark sync
New in rekonq 2.0 (Dec 29, 2012)
- new UI (with tabs up)
- new incognito mode
- pinning tabs
- new startup options
- inline spellcheck
- network error management
New in rekonq 2.0 Alpha (Nov 30, 2012)
- tabs up
- new incognito mode
- pinning tabs
- new startup options
- (not yet included) activities support
- inline spellcheck
- network error management
New in rekonq 1.3 (Oct 29, 2012)
New in rekonq 2.0 TP (Oct 29, 2012)
- tabs up
- new incognito mode
- pinning tabs
- new startup options
- (not yet included) activities support
- inline spellcheck
- network error management
New in rekonq 1.1 (Aug 28, 2012)
New in rekonq 1.0 (Jul 21, 2012)
- sync: sync bookmarks with google and with opera services.
- Fancy bookmarking: store (and share) infos about bookmarks via nepomuk.
- rekonq pages visual improvements
- Favorites page: drag & drop added
- Favorites page: ability to reload preview
- Bookmarks page: rewamped
- History page: faster load showing just 2 days as default
- History page: search feature
- Downloads page: initial notifications on what is happening to the downloaded file
- Downloads page: search feature
- Settings improvements: added "privacy" and "advanced" widgets + options about.
- If user has not a default search engine set, rekonq inform him.
- Included tab history when cloning a tab via the "clone tab" action
- adblock improvements: let users decide with 1 click what adblock subscriptions use
- adblock icon in the urlbar triggering a new dialog to unblock/show blocked/hided elements
- new action to block (and hide) images
New in rekonq 0.9.90 (Jul 10, 2012)
- sync: sync bookmarks with google and with opera services.
- Fancy bookmarking: store (and share) infos about bookmarks via nepomuk.
- rekonq pages visual improvements
- Favorites page: drag & drop added
- Favorites page: ability to reload preview
- Bookmarks page: rewamped
- History page: faster load showing just 2 days as default
- History page: search feature
- Downloads page: initial notifications on what is happening to the downloaded file
- Downloads page: search feature
- Settings improvements: added "privacy" and "advanced" widgets + options about.
- If user has not a default search engine set, rekonq inform him.
- Included tab history when cloning a tab via the "clone tab" action
- adblock improvements: let users decide with 1 click what adblock subscriptions use
- adblock icon in the urlbar triggering a new dialog to unblock/show blocked/hided elements
- new action to block (and hide) images
New in rekonq 0.9.2 (Apr 30, 2012)
New in rekonq 0.9.1 (Apr 2, 2012)
New in rekonq 0.9.0 (Mar 2, 2012)
- urlbar suggestions improvements
- enable url or text drops in the tabbar
- improved rekonq webkit settings (based on QtWebkit 2.2 features)
- bookmarks toolbar usability improvements
- Applications shortcut (desktop links)
- Many changes in default settings
- Share URL/Text/link by mail
- Usability work on rekonq pages
- new rekonq tabs page (letting you easiily manage tabs)
- let users choose a "default" download dir
- SYNC feature: general infrastucture + ftp sync
- access keys navigation
- (User) session restore
New in rekonq 0.8.71 (Jan 23, 2012)
- urlbar suggestions improvements
- enable url or text drops in the tabbar
- improved rekonq webkit settings (based on QtWebkit 2.2 features)
- bookmarks toolbar usability improvements
- Applications shortcut (desktop links)
- Many changes in default settings
- Share URL/Text/link by mail
- Usability work on rekonq pages
- new rekonq tabs page (letting you easiily manage tabs)
- let users choose a "default" download dir
- SYNC feature: general infrastucture + ftp sync
- access keys navigation
- (User) session restore
New in rekonq 0.8.1 (Dec 12, 2011)
- bugfixes
- hopefully well included docs & translations.
New in rekonq 0.8.0 (Oct 17, 2011)
- AdBlock: Third Party rules support
- custom urlbar context menu (paste & go action, ...)
- set editable
- restore tab's history
- UI changes (in rekonq menu)
- quit closes app (and added option to close window by closing last tab)
- use KParts to view page source
- "click" mechanism to manage favorites
- SSL UIs rewamped
- "Do Not Track" feature
- history, time first visit added
- Tab messages using KMessageWidget
- improved drag'n'drop
- vi style navigation (optional)
- ctrl + number favorites shortcuts
- and obviously:
- bugfixing
- licensing issues fixed
- tested against QtWebKit 2.2
New in rekonq 0.7.80 (Sep 13, 2011)
- AdBlock: Third Party rules support
- custom urlbar context menu (paste & go action, ...)
- set editable
- restore tab's history
- UI changes (in rekonq menu)
- quit closes app (and added option to close window by closing last tab)
- use KParts to view page source
- "click" mechanism to manage favorites
- SSL UIs rewamped
- "Do Not Track" feature
- history, time first visit added
- Tab messages using KMessageWidget
- improved drag'n'drop
- vi style navigation (optional)
- ctrl + number favorites shortcuts
New in rekonq 0.6.95 (Mar 21, 2011)
- release candidate
- bugfixing
- translations
New in rekonq 0.6.85 (Feb 28, 2011)
- bugfixing
- reenabled raster graphics system by default
- string freeze (so, no yet localizations)
New in rekonq 0.6.80 (Feb 10, 2011)
- General Cleanup
- OpenSearch support (XML & JSON parsers)
- Better cache management (WebKit Page Cache feature support)
- Enhanced Private Browsing mode (needs KDE SC 4.6)
- New restore session notification system
- Images in visual suggestions
- Various improvements in bookmarks management
- Optional tab list menu entry
- User Agent switch support
- Save zoom settings per host
New in rekonq 0.6.1 (Oct 6, 2010)
- Mem leak fixed in the bar(s)
- Bookmarklets support
- No more focus stealing on external url calls
- Chinese sites (right) encoding
- OpenSearch suggestions localized
- Fixed urlbar crash in disconnected mode
New in rekonq 0.5.80 (Aug 22, 2010)
- QtWebKit 2.0 & KDE SC 4.5 based
- a lot of code reviewed
- adblock performance improvements
- Back to XMLGUI -> configurable toolbar(s)
- improved keyboard navigation
- improved bk toolbar
- smooth scrolling
- new zoombar (dolphin-like)
- Awesome Bar: bk icon and opensearch suggestions!! (just google for 0.6)
New in rekonq 0.5.0 (Jul 6, 2010)
- Finally, the stable release!
New in rekonq 0.4.95 (Jun 9, 2010)
- bug fixing from previous beta
- string freeze for 0.5
New in rekonq 0.4.90 (May 26, 2010)
- improved adblock, automagically updating filter lists (+abp scheme support)
- RSS support
- new urlbar (tech preview): it's just nice and more will come..
- auto-scrolling
- downloads history tracked
- SSL Info support
- Bookmarks & history panels improvements
- bugfixing & users wishes
New in rekonq 0.4.0 (Mar 12, 2010)
- moved to kdewebkit (this means based on kde 4.4)
- kwallet support
- KIO full support (cookies, cache, proxy, network)
- file:// && ftp:// protocol easy handling
- improved rekonq pages (in the about: protocol)
- multithreaded url resolver (hopefully, no more UI freezes)
- adblock support, first part (load manually links, for now...)
- improved fullscreen mode
- embedded inspector (A-LA firebug)
- first kget integration
- optional "clickToFlash" feature
- tons of bugs fixed
New in rekonq 0.2.90 (Oct 28, 2009)
- Final UI (just some elements missing)
- new icon
- multi windows support
- KDE proxy setting support
- "new tab home page" (tech preview)
- Initial handbook added
- tab previews
- save & restore session support
- ah.. it compiles on Windows, too (but, who cares?)
New in rekonq 0.2.0 (Aug 22, 2009)
- simpler UI (but not final!)
- KDE webshortcuts support
- improved tabbar
- new notification system
- KIO support
- KCookie support
- tons of bugs fixed
New in rekonq 0.1.98 (Aug 14, 2009)
- rekonq 0.1.98 is a beta release to verify bugfixes and improve translations.
New in rekonq 0.1.95 (Aug 3, 2009)
- simpler UI
- KDE webshortcuts support
- improved tabbar
- new notification system
- KIO support
New in rekonq 0.0.4 (Mar 17, 2009)
- Rekonq Singleton app
- With Qt 4.5, preliminary flash support
- Fixed tabbar actions
- Fixed System Font Loading
- improved bookmarks system
New in rekonq 0.0.3 (Feb 9, 2009)
- ~80% ported to KDE4
- use KConfigXT
- improved text search bar
- fixed all "web actions"
- KDE download system
- new bookmark toolbar (1st implementation)
New in rekonq 0.0.2 (Dec 31, 2008)
- 70% ported to KDE4
- new urlbar
- new searchbar (just Google, for now)
- new findbar (A-LA kate)
- Slackware Slackbuild available
New in rekonq 0.0.1 (Dec 3, 2008)
- initial porting to KDE4
- share Konqueror bookmarks