| Arora | |
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 Screenshot of Arora web browser on KDE 4.1 | |
| Developer | Benjamin C. Meyer |
| Final release | |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C++ |
| Engine | WebKit |
| Operating system | BSD,Haiku,Linux,Mac OS X,OS/2,Windows |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Size | 1.2 MB (Linux) |
| Available in | Multilanguage |
| Type | Web browser |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | github |
Arora is a discontinuedfree and open-sourceweb browser developed by Benjamin C. Meyer.[2][3][4][5] It was available forLinux,Mac OS X,Windows,FreeBSD,OS/2,Haiku,[6]Genode, and any otheroperating system supported by theQt toolkit. The browser's features included tabbed browsing, bookmarks, browsing history, smart location bar,OpenSearch, session management,privacy mode, adownload manager, WebInspector, and AdBlock.[7]
Meyer discontinued development of Arora due to strictures ofnon-compete clauses by his employer.[8] 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 onGitHub, with some Linux distributions incorporating the changes in their individual versions of Arora packages in their repositories.[9]
In 2020, Arora wasforked again by another developer, Aaron Dewes, and a variant named "Endorphin Browser" was published, with the goal of modernizing Arora and adding new features.[10]
