Profectus
Overview
Profectus is a new GUI smallnet browser built in SDL to rival lagrange in terms of performance, visual design, and features. It is currently in beta 1.1 and supports nex, gemini, spartan, and scroll, as well as music streaming (mp3, vorbis, flac, and wav), and animated images (gif, apng, jpeg xl, avif).
Recent Updates
- Beta 1.2 contains new settings file and support for Flatpaks and macOS bundles
- Beta 1.1 removes libwebp support.
- Beta 1.0 contains new themes, finished outline, and scroll metadata info in sidebar.
- Alpha 0.10 contains Spartan support, two new themes based on firefox, and address-bar searching.
- Alpha 0.9 contains theming, Ctrl+T and Ctrl+Shift+T to shuffle between themes, basic theming documentation, and more UI animations.
- Alpha 0.8 contains smooth scrolling, animatted tabbar, and Ctrl+B to show/hide the sidebar.
- Alpha 0.7 contains tabs, animated AVIF image support, optimized text rendering, and memory leak fixes.
- Alpha 0.6 contains support for animated JPEG XL and WebP image files, fixes for animated PNGs (APNGs), and a fix for images getting cut off.
- Alpha 0.5 contains support for animated GIFs and animated PNGs, a slightly increased scrolling speed, and some small performance and memory optimizations.
- Alpha 0.4 contains the final fixes for DPI, improvements to the styling of quotes, Ctrl+Shift+Plus/Minus shortcut to manually increase/decrease the UI scale, fixes to hover/click events (they are clipped properly), and support for youtube:// and ytdl:// links.
- Alpha 0.3 contains more proper fixes for DPI on Wayland and macOS, as well as very basic CSV file support.
- Alpha 0.2 contains quick fixes for DPI on Wayland Linux systems.