{"id":394,"date":"2009-08-02T02:51:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T21:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linux.wellassa.org\/?p=394"},"modified":"2009-08-02T04:14:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T22:44:37","slug":"arora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linux.wellassa.org\/en\/2009\/08\/arora.html","title":{"rendered":"Arora more than just another web browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/arora\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arora<\/a> was started as a demo application to test the QtWebkit functionality in 2008. Now it has evolved to an almost feature complete web browser.\u00a0 I have been using this browser in Fedora for some time along with both Firefox and Opera. I have not yet installed Google Chrome because for my 64bit Fedora 11 box it&#8217;s difficult to build a native x86_64 version of Chrome. So my Webkit experience has primarily been on Arora web browser and I&#8217;m really impressed with its performance.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I ran a Google V8 benchmark on firefox, opera and Arora running on my Fedora 11 X86_64 box and here are the overall scores.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/v8.googlecode.com\/svn\/data\/benchmarks\/v5\/run.html\" target=\"_blank\">V8 Benchmark Suite &#8211; version <span id=\"version\">5<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Firefox 3.51\u00a0 <strong>score:209<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Opera 10.00 Beta 2 Build 4520 (gcc4, shared qt4) <strong>score: 169<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arora 0.8.0 (shared qt4) <strong>score: 548<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even though these results alone cannot be used to judge the speed of each browser, Arora is indeed fast. In the long run what I felt was both Arora and Opera is significantly faster than Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to install Arora for Fedora 11 I&#8217;ve packaged <a href=\"http:\/\/download.wellassa.org\/fedora\/11\/x86_64\/arora-0.8.0-1.fc11.x86_64.rpm\" target=\"_blank\">a x86_64 rpm<\/a>. As usual <a href=\"https:\/\/linux.wellassa.org\/en\/2008\/12\/wellassa-linux-repo.html\" target=\"_blank\">first install Wellassa Linux repo<\/a> if you have not already done so and issue:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">&#8220;sudo yum install arora&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/linux.wellassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Screenshot-V8-Benchmark-Suite-Arora.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-395\" title=\"Screenshot-V8 Benchmark Suite - Arora\" src=\"https:\/\/linux.wellassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Screenshot-V8-Benchmark-Suite-Arora-300x219.png\" alt=\"Screenshot-V8 Benchmark Suite - Arora\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/linux.wellassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Screenshot-V8-Benchmark-Suite-Arora-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/linux.wellassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Screenshot-V8-Benchmark-Suite-Arora.png 978w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>picture : Arora running V8 benchmark<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arora was started as a demo application to test the QtWebkit functionality in 2008. Now it has evolved to an almost feature complete web browser.\u00a0 I have been using this browser in Fedora for some time along with both Firefox&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[27,26,28,29],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-arora","tag-browser","tag-firefox","tag-opera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linux.wellassa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linux.wellassa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linux.wellassa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linux.wellassa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linux.wellassa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/linux.wellassa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/linux.wellassa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linux.wellassa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linux.wellassa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linux.wellassa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}