gngr v0.3, usability and javascript improvements

A new version of gngr is available (version 0.3.0) with improvements to usability and to the javascript engine. The release is available from the download page.

Changes

Context menu

You can right click on the page to get a context menu that allows you to

• navigate back, forward or reload the current page
• open Links and Images in a new window
• copy Link or Image URLs to clipboard

Issue #30.

Nimbus Look and Feel

The browser now uses a different look and feel called Nimbus. Earlier, gngr defaulted to the System Look and Feel, which didn't render menus very well. Issue #70.

Javascript stability

We fixed a long standing bug with the Javascript engine. It was a hard to reproduce, non-terminating loop that required ugly hacks to workaround. But with this release, we were able to find the root-cause and make a proper fix. The resulting code is cleaner and Javascript execution is a little faster. This will pave the way for many DOM API and other Javscript related improvements. Details in #29.

Layout improvements

• CSS class match order was not correct #53
• support for monospace font family #55
• horizontal rules are now rendered nicely #33
• whitespace in <pre> tags was not preserved #5

Miscellaneous

• Fixed an exception on Win7, when browsing to secure websites. #10

Contributions

If you would like to support the development of gngr, please consider contributing to the project.