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Version 207 License GPLv2+LGPLv2+GPLv3+

Surf the world!

Surf the world! Here you can do research, watch educational videos, take online courses, find books, connect with friends and more. Browse is powered by the WebKit2 rendering engine with the Faster Than Light javascript interpreter - allowing you to view the full beauty of the web.

To help in researching, Browse offers many features:

  • Bookmark (save) good pages you find - never loose good resources or forget to add them to your bibliography
  • Bookmark pages with collaborators in real time - great for researching as a group or teachers showing pages to their class
  • Comment on your bookmarked pages - a great tool for making curated collections

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New in this Version

  • Change activities link to v4.activities.sugarlabs.org (James Cameron),

Changelog

207

* Change activities link to v4.activities.sugarlabs.org (James Cameron),

206

* Fix README (James Cameron),
* Fix TypeError in collaboration (Srevin Saju)
* Fix expected type error on zoom (Saumya Mishra),
* Fix warnings when typing in address bar (Saumya Mishra),
* Use file transfer constants (James Cameron),
* Fix error encoding URI (Saumya Mishra),
* Remove FINISHED error (Saumya Mishra),
* Fix selecting favourite, search in PDF (Saumya Mishra),
* Fix HTTP error 403 on copying image (Shaan Subbaiah),
* Fix Sugar version used in custom user-agent (Shaan Subbaiah),

205

* New translations,
* Fix image download (Bas Hulsken),
* Fix write error for cert.db (Srevin Saju),

204

* Fix download started visible after download completed (Aarjav Jain),
* Note dependency on glib-compile-schemas (James Cameron),
* Update collabwrapper (Aniket Mathur),
* Port to Python 3 (Rahul Bothra),
* Change "file" to "open" (Aniket Mathur),
* Download a PDF only once (Swarup N),
* Enhance home page (Swarup N, Samson Goddy),
* Scale home page (Swarup N),
* Remove empty locale files (James Cameron),
* Fix favourites regressions (James Cameron),
* Feature - dark mode for PDFs (James Cameron),
* Update POT file with new strings (James Cameron),

203

* Fix unintended search when a URL begins with spaces (Avinash Bharti),
* Fix licenses, add screenshots, metadata (Vipul Gupta),
* Update CollabWrapper (James Cameron),
* Use HTML5 DOCTYPE for static welcome page (James Cameron),
* Update POT file with new strings (James Cameron),
* Updated translations (Chris Leonard et al),
* Adjust metadata description tags (James Cameron),

202

* Stop using GConf for settings (James Cameron),

201.5

* Add README.md documentation for activity (James Cameron),
* Detect and avoid Fedora 18 systems (James Cameron),
* Hide notebook tabs in fullscreen mode (Rahul Bothra),
* Reset tab title after a download starts (Rahul Bothra),
* Fix log errors when a PDF is shown (Rahul Bothra, James Cameron),
* Begin saving home-page in Gio.Settings (James Cameron),
* Update POT file with new strings (James Cameron),
* Updated translations (Chris Leonard et al),

201.4

* Source formatting to flake8 (James Cameron),
* Fix unreported progress tool button syntax errors (James Cameron),
* Stop using submodules in GitHub (James Cameron),
* Updated translations (Chris Leonard et al),

201.3

* Fix entry selection window up and down arrow keys (James Cameron),
* Fix View Source feature, port source for WebKit2, fixes #57 (James Cameron),
* Speed up download progress, removing unused code, (James Cameron),
* Fix incomplete plurals expressions in translations (James Cameron).
* Updated translations (Chris Leonard et al),

201.2

* Fix busy cursor on old toolkit versions (James Cameron),

201.1

* Avoid conflict with new Save-As feature in 0.111 toolkit (Utkarsh Tiwari),
* Remove unnecessary log warnings and messages (James Cameron),
* Use new toolkit methods for cursor changes (James Cameron),
* No disk-space canceled alert used wrong callback (James Cameron),
* Fix warning on download user cancel (James Cameron),
* Open with an activity if possible #4981 (Gonzalo Odiard, Sam Parkinson),
* Updated translations (Chris Leonard et al),

201

Sam Parkinson

* Fix typo that broke network error displays,
* Remove long running timeout used for download progress tool button,
* Port to CollabWrapper based collaboration,
* Add extra metadata, needed for AppStream,
* Adopt improved bookmarks option #2, fixes #4714,
* Fix missing sugar3.profile import - crashed on bookmark,
* Use new do_stop api for animation.

Chris Leonard et al

* New and updated translations,

James Cameron

* Support for older versions of Gtk+ and WebKit,
* Update collabwrapper,
* Interim fix for ctrl+c and ctrl+v in URL entry, #4642 and #4979,
* Update POTFILE,
* Update repository URL.

Sebastian Silva

* Update license,

György Balló

* Fix error when the backup_url value is None,
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