Dooble Web Browser

Dooble 2023.02.25

• Allow empty Home URL.
• Ignite a search from the address bar. GitHub ticket #160.
• Search engine titles must be unique!

Dooble 2023.02.20

• Add Tab Behavior. Settings -> Display. GitHub ticket #161.
• Corrected state of private Cookies Window. GitHub ticket #158.
• Save Purge Periodically setting in private Cookies Window as a separate setting. GitHub ticket #158.
• Show a warning label in Settings -> Web -> Spell Checkers if qtwebengine_dictionaries cannot be read.

Dooble 2023.01.30

• Support XDG_CONFIG_HOME. GitHub ticket #151.

Dooble 2023.01.25

• Include official Web site in About. GitHub ticket #150.

Dooble 2023.01.18

• Do not save private session tabs. GitHub ticket #146.
• Dooble profiles through the DOOBLE_HOME environment variable. GitHub ticket #149.
• Finicky QFont and empty strings. Some corrections.
• Swiftly download version information and display it in About.

Dooble 2023.01.13

• New setting: Retain Session Tabs. See Settings -> History. GitHub ticket #146.
• Special parsing of address text via Control keyboard modifier. GitHub ticket #147.
• Spooky Friday!
• memzero() key information.

Dooble 2022.12.25

• Corrected View menu width for Mac. The F11 shortcut was glued to the action text.
• Enable full hinting for application font.
• Fancy cookie collapse / expand button. See Cookies window.
• Final package release! Future releases will be source only. Good luck and enjoy!
• Hide the left-corner widget for Mac and South tab position. The combination causes a shadow in the top-left corner of the Dooble window.
• Improved translations of person-provided addresses. For example, address:5001 will be translated to https://address:5001.
• Increased the font point size of the address widget's font by 1.25 units.
• Main-menu visibility shortcut. See Settings -> Display.
• New QTWEBENGINE_CHROMIUM_FLAGS entries. See Settings -> Web.
• Observe QWebEnginePage::loadingChanged() signal. Requires Qt 6.2.
• Optional address widget completer. See Settings -> Display.
• Optional left-corner widget. See Settings -> Display.
• Optional loading gradient. See Settings -> Display.
• Optional referrer. See Settings -> Privacy.
• Optional splash screen. See Settings -> Display.
• Preserve preferred search engine. Problem caused by wayward QStandardItemModel::itemChanged() signal.
• Show hovered links in special label near the status bar if the status bar is invisible.
• Show new pages after, not before, they're attached to tabs.
• Single Gopher object. The Gopher object will be assigned to all profiles, including private profiles. Qt does not tolerate multiple Gopher objects as a Profile only allows for one object. Gopher searches may surface glitches.
• Tab icons are not properly shown for east and west tab orientations and Qt 5. Assume default Qt implementations instead.
• The shortcut F11 is now Control + F11.

Dooble 2022.11.15

• Application font. Please see Settings->Display.
• Corrected "Waiting for page..." URL host. The URL host may be the current URL host or the URL host which is loading in the future.
• French dictionary.
• French translation. Thanks meteos77.
• Retain checked cookies. Issue caused by incorrect comparison of Qt::Checked.

Dooble 2022.10.15

• 24-hour floating digital clock, as requested.
• Improving text interpretation for address widget.
• Include Qt translation files.
• Prefer foreach() for Qt containers.

Dooble 2022.06.15

• Added disable-reading-from-canvas setting.
• Address bar search engine. Also see Tools->Search Engines. A beginning.
• Set Page Floating Menu icons after a new icon set is selected.
• Speedier AES.
• Speedier Threefish.
• Verify QFont::fromString().

Dooble 2022.04.04

• Allow blocking of cookie domains.
• Confirm removal of cookies.
• Creating dynamic menus is expensive. Create as necessary.
• New Dutch translation. Thank you Vistaus.
• New French translation. Thank you meteos77.
• Optionally block third-party cookies. Enabled. See Settings.
• Qt 6.2.4 LTS.
• Review numeric configuration values. The values must be bounded.
• Temporarily disable JavaScript after a page has been loaded and re-enable it shortly after. New option in Settings.
• The --load-url option is now optional.
• WebEngine settings. Please see Settings. Thank you purpleleaf for the request.

Dooble 2022.02.15

• Floating popup menu.
• New French translation. Thank you meteos77.
• Qt 6.2.3 LTS.

Dooble 2022.01.15

• Corrected heights of address bar and status bar widgets. Missing include file also corrected. Thank you danrobi11.
• Corrected size policy of top list in Search Engines.
• Export As PNG. Thank you Ygarr.
• Happy New Year!
• New File -> Open File.
• Retrieve search engine icons via host names.

Dooble 2021.12.05

• Qt 6.2.2 LTS.
• Universal zoom. Please see Settings -> Web.
• Windows Qt 6.2.2 LTS!

Dooble 2021.11.05

• Corrected themes. Thank you altPOCA.
• New Animated Scrolling, Font labels and tool tips. Thank you altPOCA.
• New Tabs menu.
• New tab positions. Thank you Vistaus.
• Qt 6.2.1 LTS! Debian and Mac.
• Show complete URLs in Downloads.
• The home directory .dooble_v2 has been renamed to .dooble. Contents will not be ported.

Dooble 2021.08.30

• Allow opening of multiple favorites via the Enter key.
• Clear address and visited links whenever the history is cleared via Clear Browsing History.
• Close Window shortcut.
• Enable Theme Color attribute.
• Enable local storage and memory cache for private windows.
• Hide the tab bar in full-screen mode.
• Improved restoring of cookies for the cookie store.
• Lock charts on application lock.
• New Settings->Display option: Show New Downloads.
• New Tab Position setting.
• New hidden settings. Please see dooble.sh.
• Open multiple history entries via the Enter key.
• Properly free resources of chart windows.
• Reload page via F5.
• Set the home path to XDG_DATA_HOME/dooble if XDG_DATA_HOME is well-defined.
• Thanks altPOCA (ghost), michaelskyba.

Dooble 2021.08.05

• Allow decoupling of charts. Printing provided.
• Corrected zoom-in shortcut. Thanks altPOCA.
• Fancier menus.
• Floating History window.
• Implemented a safer, perhaps, version of memset().
• New zoom information attached to the address frame. Thanks altPOCA.

Dooble 2021.07.05

• Anonymous tab headers. Available via a tab's context menu.
• New --load-url terminal option.

Dooble 2021.06.20

• Added menu item ellipses.
• Corrected container access violations.
• New shortcuts.
• New visual charts. Please see Tools.

Dooble 2021.02.20

• Display SHA3 sum of current executable in About.
• Icon Set option: Material Design or System.
• Optional recording of favicons.
• Terminate Dooble upon closing of last Dooble window.

Dooble 2021.01.10

• Happy New Year!
• Corrected adding of 3rd-party URLs.
• FreeBSD build corrections.
• Improved discovery of Translations directory.
• Name of browser in user-agent string; thanks camachat.
• Polish translation; thanks Nelson89.
• Qt 5.15.2 LTS.
• Spelling corrections; thanks freddii.

Dooble 2020.10.10

• Allow removal of search engines via Clear Items.
• C++2017, if available.
• Private downloads.
• Qt 5.15.1 LTS.

Dooble 2020.07.07

• Native Qt HMAC.
• Please remove dooble_settings.db if Dooble does not launch correctly. Qt 5.15.0 LTS.
• Qt 5.15.0 LTS.
• dooble_settings::setting() may not return the provided default value if a database-access error occurs. Corrected.

Dooble 2020.05.05

• Qt 5.12.8.
• Retain address bar information after settings are applied.

Dooble 2020.03.03

• Gopher search input field. Only the first encounter of a special tag is considered on a page.
• History in tab bar's add button. Press, hold, and wait.
• Missing internal JavaScript setting prevented pop-up blocking on new installations.
• Prevent abnormal termination on resizing of Dooble windows.
• Qt 5.12.7.

Dooble 2020.02.02

• Missing internal JavaScript setting prevented pop-up blocking on new installations.

Dooble 2020.01.20

• Custom style sheets. Please be careful.
• Eliminated favicon flickering.
• Happy New Year!
• Print previews.
• Vacuuming of databases; Edit menu.

Dooble 2019.12.25

• Container optimization; replaced first().
• Corrected visibility of pop-ups. Dialogs must be made visible as necessary.
• Notify operator of Accepted / Blocked Domains import process.
• Rapid removal of pages caused abnormal termination. Corrected.

Dooble 2019.12.12

• Accepted / Blocked Domains corrections regarding exceptions.
• Also remove Accepted / Blocked Domains exceptions on data purge.
• Automatically reject third-party cookies.
• Avoid removing hidden rows during item removal; various containers.
• Corrected confirmation dialog in Downloads.
• Corrected primary key in dooble_favicons.db. Please remove the database.
• Custom tab scroll widgets.
• Denote table statistics via cute labels.
• Hide HTTP referer.
• Icons from themes with fallback.
• New History menu.
• Rapid importing of Accepted / Blocked Domains list.
• Session rejections. Please see Accepted / Blocked Domains.

Dooble 2019.11.15

• Loading a favicon via a URL's host may produce incorrect results. Corrected.
• Qt 5.12.6.
• Web fonts. Please see Settings::Web.

Dooble 2019.09.09

• Allow viewing of Gopher page source.
• Corrected loading of Home link if the link is also a favorite; delayed loading.
• Corrected spelling.
• Custom search engines. Allow searching of selected text. Sites must include proper query strings. Examples: "https://www.google.com/search?q=", "https://www.metager.org/meta/meta.ger3?eingabe=", "https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=".
• Denote favorites in address bars upon authentication.
• Floating digital clocks.
• Guard against malformed m_view object in dooble_address_widget.
• Modified dooble_favicons.db's primary key. Please remove the file.
• More database vacuuming.
• New DNS Pre-fetch option.
• Save History panel's splitter state after a 1.5-second timer expires. Fewer database writes.
• Show Documentation, License, and Release Notes pages immediately after activation.

Dooble 2019.07.07

• Periodically reload specific pages.
• Qt 5.12.4.

Dooble 2019.04.04

• Corrected spell-checker languages of private profiles.
• Delete layout prior to issuing setLayout().
• Larger icons.
• New Data/dooble_accepted_or_blocked_domains.txt file.
• New context menu item (Open Link).
• Prepare private-profile properties after Settings changes.
• Qt 5.12.2.
• Register Gopher scheme as inspired by Qt.
• Stop the address-completer's timer on Return-pressed.

Dooble 2019.02.15

• --private command-line option. Thank you Trif Traf.
• Corrected removal of history items on change of credentials.
• Enabled QWebEngineSettings::FocusOnNavigationEnabled.
• Home URL. Please see Settings::Display. Thank you mva1985.
• Memory-lock key material via mlock(). Non-Windows only.
• New Settings::Privacy Private Mode. Thank you Trif Traf.

Dooble 2019.01.20

• Additional confirmation prompts.
• Allow adding of URLs in Certificate Exceptions.
• Application locking via tab context menu. Thank you mva1985.
• Corrected closing of pages via JavaScript (dooble::slot_window_close_requested()).
• Destroying private windows created from existing pages caused abnormal termination. Corrected.
• Detect stalled downloads.
• Hiding of individual location frames.
• Introduced DOOBLE_FREEBSD_WEBENGINE_MISMATCH. The WebEngine port's version on FreeBSD 11.x does not match Qt 5.11.x's version.
• JavaScript window.print().
• Keccak-512.
• New Info.plist file for Mac. Thank you ViktorMacUpdate.
• Optional closing of single tab. Please see Settings::Display.
• Page navigation through tab context menu.
• Prepare History icons upon populating table.
• Pretty tool tips.
• Qt 5.12.0.
• Removed incorrect logic in dooble_accepted_or_blocked_domains::slot_delete_selected_exceptions() with respect to hidden table items.
• Removed silly versions.
• Tab tool tips were lost upon moving tabs to new windows. Corrected.

Dooble 2018.09.20

• New zoom shortcuts per request.
• QWebEngineView's layout is not necessarily a QStackedLayout. Corrected dooble_web_engine_page::certificateError().
• Qt 5.11.2.
• Replaced fixed iterations in AES.
• Software-based OpenGL for W32. Thank you Smooey.

Dooble 2018.07.04

• Allow hiding of the location frame per tab page via tab context menu.
• Allow removal of unchecked cookie domains.
• Corrected words_to_bytes() in the Threefish implementation. Missing bitwise-and operation at the initial element.
• Disable Language option in Settings if the system's default language is English. Thank you anchev.
• New WebRTC option. Please see the Web panel of the Settings window. Qt 5.11 only.
• Qt 5.11.1.
• Reconnect QWebEngineCookieStore::cookieAdded() after count milliseconds upon initialization, where count is the number of processed cookies.

Dooble 2018.04.30

• FreeBSD now supported.
• Optional Web images.
• Qt 5.9.x corrections. Tested with Qt 5.9.4.
• Removed jittery page completions. Caused by incorrect hiding of the tab bar.
• Unique, safely-generated, database names.

Dooble 2018.04.04

• Avoid nested locks.
• Corrected authentication widget states.
• Features permissions.
• New Data/dooble_accepted_or_blocked_domains.txt.
• Remove malformed database entries during initialization processes.

Dooble 2018.03.20

• Disable View Page Source context-menu item on Gopher pages.
• Inspect buffer boundaries in Gopher logic.
• Replace \r\n with <br> in Gopher text. Thank you arne-cl.
• Support high-DPI displays. On Mac and Windows, the attributes AA_EnableHighDpiScaling and AA_UseHighDpiPixmaps are permanently set. All other operating systems, please see dooble.sh. Thank you chocolatkey.

Dooble 2018.03.15

• Common logic for creating database tables.
• Detect image formats in Gopher links (gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1overbite/ss/Screenshots_during_development, gopher://gopher.quux.org/1Software/Gopher/screenshots).
• Initialize atomic variables.
• Purple Puppy. Dooble on Puppy Linux.
• Warn if the SQLite driver is not available.

Dooble 2018.03.03

• Allow resetting of the User Agent widget.
• Ascending-order title sort of Favorites.
• Create database tables before attempting to access them.
• Do not attempt to read zero data into an icon stream.
• Do not store favicons in dooble_history.db.
• Fewer object locks.
• Gopher titles may be empty. Corrected Favorites.
• New documentation.
• Open tabs in new private windows via tab context menus.
• Qt 5.10.1.

Dooble 2018.01.25

• Display the splash screen until containers have been populated.
• Drag-and-load links. Pages may be loaded by dragging links onto address widgets.
• New Data/dooble_accepted_or_blocked_domains.txt.
• Reload the current page if a blocking exception has been approved.
• Tab-key navigation on various table widgets.

Dooble 2018.01.15

• New Orange theme.
• Remove artificial shortcuts from tabs. Some pages include ampersands in their titles.
• Retain Favorites dimensions.
• Signed Debian package.

Dooble 2018.01.10

• Adjust QWebEngineView initial sizes.
• Corrected potential dereference of zero pointer (s variable) in threefish_decrypt_implementation().
• Corrected site icons in the address widget.
• Include portions of the Documentation directory in Debian and OS X packages.
• New context menu option in the History window.
• Prepare Favorites, History icons if pages have been deleted.

Dooble 2018.01.01

• A Qt 5.10.0 release. Ten years of Dooble!
• Allow restarting of completed downloads. Qt 5.10 is required.
• Confirm removal of items from the Favorites dialog.
• Corrected highlighting of address widget text. Problem arose if an item from the address widget's completer model was selected.
• Corrected pinning of visible Downloads window.
• Custom highlighting of address-widget items.
• New database field download_path in dooble_downloads.db. The database dooble_downloads will be removed. Apologies.
• Open Favorites links in new tabs via Control modifier and double-click.
• Pause and resume downloads. Qt 5.10 is required.
• Private-window downloads are purged if parent profiles are destroyed. Corrected.
• Special OS X provision for https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-65184.

Dooble 2017.12.12

• Avoid updating titles of Favorites. Visited sites may issue new titles.
• Corrected UTF-8 Favorites URL data. Icons were not properly initialized. URL processing lacked decoding logic.
• Corrected parents of separated pages. Problem causes abnormal termination.
• Corrected tab titles of pop-up windows.
• Date-order address-widget model. Also eliminated repetitive use of expensive method.
• Documentation corrections.
• New Dark theme.
• New Data/dooble_accepted_or_blocked_domains.txt.
• New Default theme.
• New option for allowing pop-ups from domain-based URLs.
• Observe QWebEnginePage::windowCloseRequested().
• Optional tool tips over hovered links.
• Override QWebEnginePage::chooseFiles(). The new implementation sets the file dialog's current working directory to the user's home path.
• Properly stack visited links in the address-widget model. Recent items must be placed onto the stack.
• Set QMAKE_LFLAGS_RELEASE += -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/dooble/Lib in dooble.pro for non-Mac and non-Windows.
• Set Section in DEBIAN/control to net.
• The Debian package was missing the Qt5Svg library. As a result, some icons in file dialogs were not drawn.

Dooble 2017.11.25

• Additional database vacuuming.
• Certificate exceptions and private windows. Please read the official Dooble document for details.
• Corrected SQLite pragma statement.
• Corrected by-URL-host query in dooble_favicons::icon(). The query's bound parameter must be converted to Base-64.
• Corrected documentation.
• Corrected missing address-widget Favorites signal.
• Corrected retrieval of site icons.
• Decreased unnecessary file writes to dooble_settings.db with respect to Favorites sorting.
• If you're experiencing launch problems on Windows, please execute the bundled file vcredist_msvc2015_x86.exe.
• Improved loading of Favorites icons. Only the icons of items in the current view are loaded.
• Improved removal of voluminous cookie sets.
• Introduced SQLite indexes on the dooble_favicons database table.
• Load the correct URL after a certificate exception is accepted.
• Modified the populating of items in the History window's table. Instead of loading all icons, only the icons in the table's current view will be loaded.
• New Theme Color property. Please see the Display section of the Settings window.
• New Web site.
• New search mechanism in Favorites.
• Populating of history items is now performed in a separate thread.
• Qt products have been upgraded to version 5.9.3.
• Rapid loading of address-widget icons. Removed extra container.
• The Debian bundle now includes the dooble.desktop file.

Dooble 2017.11.11

• Added ellipsis to the Decouple context menu item.
• Corrected ellipsis in the Certificate Exceptions menu item.
• Corrected potential dereference of zero pointer (s variable) in threefish_encrypt_implementation().
• Debian AMD64 package. The package was created on Linux Mint 18.2 and verified on Debian 9.2.1 and Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS.
• New Clear Visited Links within the Edit menu. If activated, contents of the local Visited Links file are removed.
• New Windows 7 files.
• Numerous documentation corrections and improvements.
• Optional Do Not Track.
• Optional WebGL. Global and per-page.
• Remove items from address widget models whenever counterparts are removed via the History window.
• Removed ellipsis from the Save menu item.
• Titles provided by Web sites are now limited to 1024 characters.
• URLs provided by Web sites are now limited to 2048 characters.

Dooble 2017.11.05

• Authentically-encrypted database containers are included. The optional feature includes the popular cipher algorithms AES and Threefish as well as the fantastic SHA-3 digest algorithm. Please note that both implementations of AES and Threefish are written by the author(s) of Dooble.
• Automatic and periodic removal of cookie data may be of interest. This feature allows Dooble to purge unwanted cookie data from your browsing history.
• Beautiful dictionaries are included covering various languages. When enabled, spell checking is too.
• Built-in content blocker with accept and block modes of operation. This new addition will prevent advertising sites from polluting your browsing experience. The feature may also be used in a school setting where it's desired that only specific sites may be accessed.
• Completely redesigned! Most of the major operating systems are supported, including your favorite Unix-like systems as well as Windows. Wherever Qt and WebEngine are supported, so is Dooble!
• Dooble is highly-configurable software. The internal workings are clearly visible. Tool tips are included wherever confusion may arise.
• Dooble is open source software and includes a very relaxed BSD license.
• Proxy support is of course included. Whether you enjoy using a private proxy or a public proxy, Dooble is attentive to your privacy.
• Qt 5.9.x and newer are required! WebKit has been deprecated and WebEngine is now the preferred layout engine for rendering Web pages. Release 2017.11.05 includes Qt 5.9.2 libraries.
• Zero-dependency browser. The only entities that Dooble requires are Qt and you!