Some Awesome Opensource Web Browsers... Worth to Try... (part 2)
6 K-Meleon
K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser based on the Gecko layout engine developed by Mozilla which is also used by Firefox. K-Meleon is Free, Open Source software released under the GNU General Public License and is designed specifically for Microsoft Windows (Win32) operating systems.
Available platforms
- Windows
Features
- K-Meleon uses the native Windows API for user interface instead of Mozilla's cross-platform XML User Interface Language (XUL) layer, and as a result, is tightly integrated into the look and feel of the Windows desktop.
- Simple and Highely costomizeable
- Light weight
- Better Privacy
- Resource Friendly
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K-Meleon7 Konqueror
Konqueror is a free and open-source web browser and file manager that provides file viewer functionality for file systems such as local files, files on a remote FTP server and files in a disk image. It is a core part of the KDE Software Compilation. Konqueror is developed by volunteers and can run on most Unix-like operating systems and on Windows systems. Konqueror is licensed and distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2.
Available platforms
- windows
- Linux
Features
- Webbrowsing using KHTML or KDEWebKit as rendering engines
- File management using most of Dolphin's features (including version-control, service menus and the basic UI)
- File management on ftp and sftp servers
- Full featured FTP-client (you can split views to display local and remote folders and previews in the same window)
- Embedded applications to preview files (e.g. Okular and Calligra for documents, Gwenview for pictures, KTextEditor for text-files)
- Different kinds of plugins: Service-menus, KParts (embedded applications), KIO (accessing files using special protocols like http or ftp) and KPart-plugins (like AdBlocker...)
- Customizable application
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Konqueror8 QupZilla
QupZilla is a new and very fast QtWebEngine browser. It aims to be a lightweight web browser available through all major platforms. This project has been originally started only for educational purposes. But from its start, QupZilla has grown into a feature-rich browser. QupZilla has all standard functions you expect from a web browser. It includes bookmarks, history (both also in sidebar) and tabs. Above that, it has by default enabled blocking ads with a built-in AdBlock plugin.
Available platforms
- Linux
- Windows
- BSD
- OS X
Features
- Native look & feel
- Unified Library
- Integrated AdBlock
- Opera-like Speed Dial
- Light weight & Fast
official website :
QupZilla9 lynx
Lynx is a highly configurable text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals. As of 2015, it is the oldest web browser currently in general use and development, having started in 1992.
Available platforms
- Windows
- Linux (Unix-like)
- DOS
Features
- Extremely light-weight
- highly configurable
- Low resource usage
- better privacy
- see : more feature at wikipedia
official website :
Lynx10 Links
Links is an open source text and graphic web browser with a pull-down menu system. It renders complex pages, has partial HTML 4.0 support (including tables and frames and support for multiple character sets such as UTF-8), supports color and monochrome terminals and allows horizontal scrolling. It is intended for users who want to retain many typical elements of graphical user interfaces (pop up windows, menus etc.) in a text-only environment.
Available platforms
- Linux (Unix-like)
- BSD
- Windows
Features
- Links runs on Linux, BSD, UNIX in general, OS/2, Cygwin under Windows, AtheOS, BeOS, FreeMint.
- Easy and quick user control via pull-down menu in both text and graphics mode
- Tables, frames in both graphics and text mode, builtin image display in graphics mode
- Builtin image display for GIF, JPEG, PNG, XBM, TIFF in graphics mode
- Anti-advertisement animation filter in animated GIFs
- Automatic reconnection in case of TCP connection breakdown
- Keepalive connections
- Background (asynchronous) DNS lookup
- 48-bit high-quality image gamma correction, resampling and Floyd-Steinberg dithering in all color depths.
- Easy installation, the browser is just one executable and no more files.
- User-adjustable menu, HTML font size and image zoom factor.
- see more features at
official website :
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