Swift (web browser)

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Swift 0.4.1

Swift
Developed by Zimmy
Initial release Feb 17 2008
Written in C++ / Qt Toolkit
OS Microsoft Windows
Available in English
Genre Web Browser
License GNU General Public License
Website www.swift.ws

Swift is a Microsoft Windows native web browser that utilizes WebKit, based on the KHTML browser layout engine. Swift was the first KHTML-based browser available for Microsoft Windows.

The browser is in an early alpha version. 0.4.1 is the most recent release, written in C++/Qt Toolkit, previous versions written in .NET/C#.

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[edit] Known issues and bugs

Current issues that need to be addressed in Swift include: Cookie handling/support, Web Download support, NPAPI Plugin Support, History management, and Bookmark management. Several minor UI bugs exist, such as a lack of user configurable settings, missing commonly used commands, among others.

[edit] Identification

Both versions of Swift, 0.1 and 0.2, have the same User Agent string.

Swift identifies as Mozilla/5.0 (PC; U; Intel; Windows; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko).

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