SkipStone is a Gtk+ Web Browser that embeds Mozilla's rendering component Gecko

Released SkipStone 1.0.0 with few bug fixes and ability to use Apple WebKit rendering engine.

SkipStone is a Gtk+ Web Browser that embeds Mozilla's rendering component Gecko. It aims to be light and fast with few dependencies. As of version 1.0.0 - Support for Apple WebKit has been added.

SkipStone is currently under heavy development, but its progressing quickly and coming along nicely. It provides a nice and simple configurable interface, bookmarks and all of the other mandantory browsing features.

Downloading is handled by SkipDownload by default, a Gtk+ frontend to the famous web downloading utility wget. However, if you prefer to use other download utilities / managers, this option is configurable.


Mail and external url handlers are also handled by external applications which can be configured to the users choice, leaving SkipStone to do what it does best - browsing.

Screenshots

What does it look like? Here are some screenshots of SkipStone CVS 0.4 : This is the SkipStone main window This is the SkipStone config window This is the SkipStone Bookmarks window This is the SkipDownload Progress window This is the SkipDownload Queue window This is the tabbed view a feature of SkipStone 0.6 and up SkipStone running on Mood M300 IPTV box on a regular TV. SkipStone running on Mood M300 IPTV box through a DV gadget.

The latest stable version seems to be 1.0.1 - ChangeLog.

Note that skipstone plugins are only included in the source packages, you must compile your own plugins always for now. If you write a plugin for SkipStone, please feel free to submit it for inclusion to me or to the list If you would like to contribute a compiled skipstone for your distribution/arch please feel free to do so by emailing me. User Sven-Ola Contributed binaries of Skipstone for running on the Mood-300 IPTV box which can be found here. He also contributed two screenshots of SkipStone running on the Mood-300 which you can checkout in the screenshots page. Puppy Linux users, please go here for packages. Also there are active disucssions on the puppy linux forums with regard to Skipstone and the various versions of Puppy. The Suse RPM's have been contributed by Stefan Bauer, Email him for any request. Source Tarball: skipstone-1.0.1.tar.gz Source RPM for Suse 10.0: skipstone-0.9.6-1.stb.suse100.src.rpm Binary RPM for Suse 10.0 i586: skipstone-0.9.6-1.stb.suse100.i586.rpm

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