Arora is a discontinued

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developed by Benjamin C. Meyer. It was available for

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, Genode, and any other

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supported by the

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, WebInspector, and AdBlock. Meyer discontinued development of Arora due to strictures of

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s by his employer. Another software developer, Bastien Pederencino, forked Arora's source code, and published a variant called zBrowser renamed Zeromus Browser in February 2013. Later in 2013, Pederencino published another variant called BlueLightCat. In 2014, some new patches were released on Arora's project page on

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, with some Linux distributions incorporating the changes in their individual versions of Arora packages in their repositories. In 2020, Arora was forked again by another developer, Aaron Dewes, and a variant named "Endorphin Browser" was published, with the goal of modernizing Arora and adding new features.

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BlueLightCat website

Endorphin Browser Website
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