QtWeb is a discontinued

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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

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 ...

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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) *

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

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* Customisable search engines * Customisable User Agent (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome) * Downloads manager * Mouse gestures * Privacy mode * Pop-up blocking * 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

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support, no way to run

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and problems working with several websites.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:QtWeb 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