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SkipStone

2000 – 2008 Discontinued
28

Lightweight GTK+ browser embedding Gecko via GtkMozEmbed, with downloads handed off to wget (SkipDownload) and plugins; version 1.0 adds WebKit as an alternative engine.

Facts

Developer
Unknown (project hosted on muhri.net)
Website
web.archive.org
Engines
GeckoWebKit (WebKitGTK)
Platforms
LinuxUnixBSD
Details
Recommended on debian-user as early as Oct. 2000; NetBSD pkgsrc package (removed in 2011); 1.0 in Feb. 2008, 1.0.1 (bug fixes) on April 20, 2008, optional “very experimental” WebKit
Popularity
28/100 — Estimate: niche open-source Linux project, listed by mozilla.org

Lineage

Derived browsers (1)
BackArrow

Sources

  1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2000/10/msg02652.html
  2. https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2001/04/05/0002.html
  3. https://linuxfr.org/users/zorro/journaux/skipstone-se-r%C3%A9veille
  4. https://bugs.gentoo.org/221017
  5. https://pkgsrc.se/www/skipstone
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20061205031648/http://muhri.net:80/skipstone/