I had already posted about trying out the Qt-based Arora browser in Haiku and found it disappointing in that it crashed at the drop of a hat.
Anyway, as I'm still in the process of deciding which is my preferred browser in FreeBSD (Midori is in pole position right now), I gave Arora another work-out.
As it's available in FreeBSD's port system, I compiled it right there.
First, it does not crash in FreeBSD so that puts it in a totally different league.
Next, I was able to set up a proxy connection using Tools>>Options>>Proxy and connect to 127.0.0.1:3128 and thereby get the benefits of pdnsd in Arora.
Finally, Arora has a nice bookmarks bar that I could easily fill up with my favorite websites. However, unlike Midori (or Stainless and OmniWeb in OS X) no favicons appear in the bookmarks bar, just the words.
All-in-all, Arora is highly usable and fast in FreeBSD but it really has nothing to knock Midori off its pedestal for the moment.
Incidentally, I wrote this post in Arora 0.11.0 in FreeBSD 8.2 RC2 and everything went fine until I got to uploading the screenshot I included with this post. CPU went to 100% and the upload failed. Indeed, I had to force quit Arora to get things working again.
So, I had to move to Midori and using the automatically saved blogger draft, I was able to easily upload the screenshot in Midori.
Yet, another reason why I'll be sticking with Midori.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Arora 0.11.0 in FreeBSD
Posted by PaulFXH at 23:29
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