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rekonq

Developer(s)	Andrea Diamantini and others
Initial release	2008 (2008)
Stable release	0.3 / 2009-11-18; 60 days ago
Written in	C++ (Qt)
Operating system	Linux, Unix-like
Engine	WebKit
Platform	KDE
Size	~480 KiB
Available in	Multilingual
Development status	Active
Type	Web browser
License	GNU GPL
Website	rekonq.sourceforge.net

rekonq is a lightweight, QtWebKit-based web browser for the KDE desktop environment. It integrates into KDE, e.g. downloading files through KDE download system, sharing bookmarks with Konqueror, KIO support, etc. Its code was initially based on Qt Software's QtDemoBrowser and currently is developed on Gitorious.

Features

The browser is characterized by being very fast, lightweight and low memory consumption. In the Acid3 test, rekonq obtained a score of 100/100.

Acid3 result of rekonq 0.2

rekonq includes tabbed browsing, bookmarks, popup blocker, KDE keyboard Web shortcuts support, support for search engines like Wikipedia or Google, unique loading URL bar, proxy support, etc.

References

See also

• Comparison of web browsers
• WebKit
• Konqueror

External links

• rekonq homepage
• rekonq source code at Gitorious
• rekonq at KDE-Apps
• rekonq bugs at bugs.kde.org