QtWeb is a discontinued
free and open-source
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web browser
A web browser, often shortened to browser, is an application for accessing websites. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the browser retrieves its files from a web server and then displays the page on the user's scr ...
developed by LogicWare & LSoft Technologies.
QtWeb used the
WebKit
WebKit is a browser engine primarily used in Apple's Safari web browser, as well as all web browsers on iOS and iPadOS. WebKit is also used by the PlayStation consoles starting with the PS3, the Tizen mobile operating systems, the Amazon K ...
browser engine
A browser engine (also known as a layout engine or rendering engine) is a core software component of every major web browser. The primary job of a browser engine is to transform HTML documents and other resources of a web page into an interacti ...
that was embedded in the
Qt framework.
Features
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Ad filtering
Ad blocking (or ad filtering) is a software capability for blocking or altering online advertising in a web browser, an application or a network. This may be done using browser extensions or other methods or browsers with inside blocking.
Hist ...
(
AdBlock
AdBlock is an ad-blocking browser extension for Google Chrome, Apple Safari (desktop and mobile), Firefox, Samsung Internet, Microsoft Edge and Opera. AdBlock allows users to prevent page elements, such as advertisements, from being displaye ...
function)
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BitTorrent
BitTorrent is a Protocol (computing), communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P), which enables users to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet in a Decentralised system, decentralized manner. The protocol is d ...
download manager
*
Bookmarks (including bookmarks import and aliases)
* Customisable
keyboard shortcut
In computing, a keyboard shortcut (also hotkey/hot key or key binding) is a software-based assignment of an action to one or more keys on a computer keyboard. Most Operating system, operating systems and Application software, applications come ...
* Customisable search engines
* Customisable User Agent (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome)
* Downloads manager
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Mouse gestures
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Privacy mode
* Pop-up blocking
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Portable version available
* Saving web sites in the
PDF
Portable document format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe Inc., Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, computer hardware, ...
format
*
Tabbed browsing
In interface design, a tab is a graphical user interface object that allows multiple documents or Panel (computer software), panels to be contained within a single window (computing), window, using tabs as a navigational widget for switching be ...
* Web Inspector for debugging, editing, and monitoring web pages
Reception
QtWeb has been described as a lightweight web browser which offers some amount of customisable features, speed and simplicity to navigate.
However it has been criticised for the lack of
extensions
Extension, extend or extended may refer to:
Mathematics
Logic or set theory
* Axiom of extensionality
* Extensible cardinal
* Extension (model theory)
* Extension (proof theory)
* Extension (predicate logic), the set of tuples of values t ...
support, no way to run
Java
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and problems working with several websites.
References
External links
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Cross-platform free software
Software based on WebKit
Discontinued web browsers
Free software projects
Free web browsers
MacOS web browsers
Web browsers that use Qt
Unix Internet software
Windows web browsers