Available from 2 sites as a .zip file or a .paf file.
http://www.qupzilla.com/download#windows
or from
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/qupzilla-portable
Seems to work quite well. It's built with QtWebKit. Been around for a few years. Works on many OSs (sadly not QNX).
Renders pages quickly and seems to run light, about 2 to 2.5 mb RAM and one half to 8 percent of available CPU.
No glitches, no problems (so far), except that importing bookmarks from IE is clumsy. Tried automatic import, froze the browser. Manual import works but is tedious.
I have been running the Portable Apps version in winxp for about 2 hours, am on here with it now. Running it sandboxed.
I have been looking for a browser for this xp box since Firefox slowed down so much.
Palemoon and K-Meleon won't behave here.
Maxthon works well and it's a bit faster than Qupzilla, but it makes me nervous calling home to China.
Have not checked yet to see who Qupzilla calls home to.
I have been looking for a browser for this xp box since Firefox slowed down so much.
Palemoon and K-Meleon won't behave here.
I haven't tried it however I've always noticed it on PortableApps.com.
Another alternative on XP is SRWare Iron Portable, the newest version and download can be found on their forums here (instead of their download site), always located at the very top of the forum page:
That SRWare Iron Portable and myself just today saved my mother $600 dollars. She thought a website she uses for her sewing required Windows 10 so she bought a new $600 laptop computer yesterday. That isn't what the error page said, it merely didn't support Firefox not even the newest version however it does support Chrome/Chromium which SRWare Iron is based upon.
1. I backed up my bookmarks in it which caused it to create a registry settings key. It looks like the registry settings is so it will remember where you've saved a bookmark backup at (but it doesn't really remember the location at all). Actually just found out it does remember where the bookmarks backup are saved. This is what it created:
2. The bookmarks sorting has to be done all 100% manually, which is unfortunate in 2015.
As for CCleaner supporting it in the future to clean it, maybe one day Piriform will officially support it. However the built-in cleaning that QupZilla has is impressive.
My thoughts are I do like it, I was impressed with the adblocking built-in from the get go and the ability to add in all of the adblocking filters I use with zero fuss. I'll consider it as a go to alternative but only if SRWare Iron ever gives me issues enough to leave it.
There's always a but. But for me to ever use QupZilla/QupZilla Portable as a main browser contender it's going to need the ability to alphabetize and alphanumerically alphabetize bookmarks and bookmark folders automatically because doing it manually is too much of a chore that I'd imagine nobody wants to partake in.
Edit:
It certainly uses a hell of allot less memory compared to Firefox, and especially Chrome/Chromium based browsers. I think someone on an old (but still usable) Windows XP computer with 1GB or less RAM could benefit from using QupZilla/QupZilla Portable due to it using less memory.
Whow, I was literally just reading about QupZilla in my monthly PC mag and was going to give it a spin, so it's good (and timely) to hear some good things about it.
I have only last week ditched IceDragon after about a 3 month trial. I thought I had found a replacement for the long, tried and tested, FireFox but alas, I finally came across a website I need (only use it once a quarter for Tax) that IceDragon couldn't handle.
So thanks for the first-hand info, I'll give QupZilla a spin.
It is also fast, is maybe not quite as configurable (or maybe i just don't know how yet) and also is light on resources, uses about 5 to 7 gb RAM and 15 to 20 percent of available CPU.
About QupZilla, it was sort of glitchy on youtube. I kept having to refresh the page and/or delete the whole history to get things to play.
also true about the bookmarks, what a pain.
Looks like maybe Iron won this round, but the game is still on.
For what it's worth, I always run browsers in the sandbox, saves a lot of issues with leftover junk.
Edit 01 nov 15: This SRWare browser is pretty good, imho. Still trying it.
gb "Gigabytes" of RAM and light on resources. Actually when I used to use Comodo Dragon (another Chrome/Chromium clone) but had to ditch it for SRWare Iron Portable due to Comodo Dragon crashing to much. The amount of RAM it required for Chrome/Chromium browsers was the only reason I bought more RAM for this old XP system because Windows complained on two or so occasions about the RAM, PageFile, etc.
Actually SRWare Iron seems light, but uses a good chunk more RAM than Firefox. Of course it also matters if you've installed any add-ons such as adblocking and Adblock for Chrome does increase the RAM requirements.
On here, seamonkey 2.38 freezes with one continuous BIOS beep.
Firefox does too, sometimes.
Could also be caused by add-ons, etc. Months ago before I ditched Comodo Dragon it eventually got to the point of causing allot of BSOD's on my system, just closing the browser could cause them.
Is that a fresh installed XP SP3 without any updates installed from Microsoft Updates? Could be anything really on a fresh XP SP3 install without the Microsoft Updates such as outdated Root Certificates, general bug or stability fixes, etc.
i use the zip-file - on another xp sp3 with netframework 2.0 sp2 and all updates (uninstalled ie8) "in the years" it run fine. but not on a fresh installed...
@andavari
i have only "real" updates and root certificates (but not security-updates) and no ie8, only netframework 2.0 sp2 + a handful of programms as piriform-things :-) and firefox installed. but not extra-software like c++2005/2008 or xml 4.0 or other things...
with iron comes nothing, also not in the taskmanager, but with qupzilla comes a errormessage 2 times:
´Die Anwendung konnte nicht richtig installiert werden.(0xc000001d). Klicken Sie auf "OK", um die Anwendung zu beenden.´
That last link (techsupportforum) has a download. I used 7zip to extract it (not install it), and it has a bunch of .dlls apparently needed by MBAM to run. These .dlls are present on this machine but are NOT the same versions.