Surfer supports tabbed browsing and released as 0.2.0

News by khorben on 21/04/2010 17:53:58
Another minor version bump for the Surfer [1]: 0.2.0 [2], but with major updates. They include:
  • tabbed browsing (at last!)
  • fully translated to French (thanks to Calimero);
  • partly translated to German;
  • a Javascript console;
  • some more usability fixes and improvements.

With this done, it's getting much closer to match my own expectations of a daily browsing experience. It's still missing proper history, bookmarking, session handling, some usability tweaks and security measures, but it's getting there. The code also deserves a quick review, as tabbed-browsing support wasn't planned at start the internal API could be more efficient.

But it definitely is the best release of the Surfer project so far, particularly when choosing the default WebKit-based HTML rendering engine.

[1] http://www.defora.org/os/project/340/Surfer
[2] http://www.defora.org/os/download/download/3341/Surfer-0.2.0.tar.gz