WildFox

WildFox is both its own project in addition to reimagining what Mozilla's Firefox web browser stood for, years ago: a light-weight, versatile and efficient web browser. It's also cross-platform and compatible with Chrome & Firefox plug-ins and addons.

Image: WildFox running on Windows 7. Build 2012-04-05.

WildFox is built upon a WebKit/Qt/C++ foundation and currently supports the following features:

• Full HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript and Flash plugin support.
• Support for all Firefox plugins (NPAPI).
• Basic tab management.

Note that WildFox is very much a work in progress at this point. Major features still to be added include:

• Advanced bookmark management
• Advanced tab management
• Advanced download manager
• History
• Sessions

Features new in build 2012-04-06 are:

• Basic bookmarks support (add/delete).
• Bookmarks sidebar (toggle visibility with Ctrl+B)
• Used Qt stylesheets to improve the UI's looks.
• Initial Chrome extensions support (disabled in release)

Fixed in 2012-04-06:

• Various bugs in the cookiejar. Improves cookie support considerably.

You can download the current early Alpha build here. Either get the full version or the update (exe-only) if you already have the Qt 4.8 DLLs. Execute the Linux build using the included WildFox.sh.

Windows 32-bit, 11.4 MB ZIP archive, UPX-packed.
Windows 32-bit, 229 kB archive. EXE-only.

Source code is found at GitHub: https://github.com/MayaPosch/WildFox

Compile using qmake & make against the Qt 4.8+ libraries. There are no platform-specific requirements beyond those of the Qt libraries. Please leave feedback if you try it on a new platform.

For those on IRC, there's a support channel at irc.rizon.net, #WildFox.

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