Dooble is a free and Open Source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 Web browser

Web browser

A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...

. The aim of Dooble is to create a comfortable and safe browsing medium. Currently, Dooble is available for FreeBSD

FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX. Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called “UNIX”, as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX , FreeBSD’s internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant...

, Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

, OS X, and Windows. Dooble should be compatible with any operating system where Qt is available.

History

The first version (0.1) was released in September, 2009 . The current version (1.25) was released in November, 2011.

Features

Some of Dooble's features include encrypted browsing information, non-JavaScript file manager and FTP browser , highly-configurable proxy settings, intelligent location widget, and automatic removal of cookie information .

Dooble also integrates the distributed search engine YaCy

YaCy

YaCy is a free distributed search engine, built on principles of peer-to-peer networks. Its core is a computer program written in Java distributed on several hundred computers, , so-called YaCy-peers...

.

Development and Programming

Dooble is developed by a handful of people. External recommendations are reviewed and if accepted, applied. Each and every release undergoes a strict review process.

Future goals include bookmarks and a custom distributed search engine.

Licensing

Dooble's source code is free

Free software

Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...

 and open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

, and falls under the GNU General Public License

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

 (GPL). This license permits anyone to view, modify, and redistribute the source code.

See also

• List of web browsers
• List of web browsers for Unix and Unix-like operating systems
• Comparison of web browsers
  Comparison of web browsers
  The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of web browsers. Please see the individual products' articles for further information.-Historical web browsers:...
  
  
• Qt (framework)