QupZilla Web Browser 2.1.0 Released! (64-bit AppImage)

QupZilla, a lightweight QtWebEngine browser, has reached a new major 2.1 release one day ago with lots of fixes and some new features.

QupZilla 2.1.0 brings back some features present in 1.8 version and also a number of completely new features.

• bring back spellcheck
• bring back support for printing
• bring back save page action + support multiple formats
• bring back option to delete cookies on close
• bring back per-domain user agent settings
• show audio playing indicator in tab with possibility to mute
• show background activity indicator in pinned tabs
• add option to show navigation bar when opening new tab in fullscreen
• add option to show bookmarks toolbar when typing in location bar
• add option to use native scrollbars
• add option to delete cache on close
• each tab has now its own search toolbar
• lot of HighDPI fixes
• fix setting maximum size of cache
• fix scrolling with high resolution mouse/touchpad
• fix rules for disabling blocking on pages in AdBlock
• fix deleting cookies
• fix slow search in icons database
• fix restoring zoom level of tabs
• fix crash when opening web inspector
• fix crash of the application when render process crashes
• fix tabbar being invisible sometimes after leaving fullscreen
• fix sometimes not showing list of windows and tabs in recovery page
• Windows: show download progress in taskbar

Download QupZilla for Linux:

QupZilla 2.1.0 requires Qt5 >=5.7. It’s not easy to build it on current Ubuntu releases since Ubuntu repositories provide Qt 5.6 and older versions.

1. Fortunately, QupZilla offers AppImage for 64-bit Linux, it contains all the files the browser need to run:

Download QupZilla AppImage

2. After downloaded the file, make it executable by:

• right-click on the AppImage file and select Properties.
• then navigate to the Permissions tab.
• finally check the box that says “Allow executing file as program”

3. Finally you can launch QupZilla by right-clicking on the AppImage and select ‘Run’:

If you don’t see the ‘Run’ option, go to menu of Nautilus file browser Edit -> Preferences -> Behavior -> Check the line says “Run executable text files when they are opened”.