Sailfish Browser is web browser for Sailfish OS and is shipping with Sailfish OS devices. Sailfish Browser uses Sailfish Silica Qt components for the browser chrome and gecko engine with embedlite Qt5 binding. More information about the architecture can be found from https://web.archive.org/web/20180830103541/http://blog.idempotent.info/posts/whats-behind-sailfish-browser.html . Feel free to ask questions on Forum from Maintainers.

• Raine Mäkeläinen (rainemak)
• David Llewellyn-Jones (llewelld)

• Sailfish WebView - https://github.com/sailfishos/sailfish-components-webview
• QtMozEmbed - Qt bindings - https://github.com/sailfishos/qtmozembed
• Gecko browser engine with EmbedLite components and API - https://github.com/sailfishos/gecko-dev

Browser uses a separate native content window by default. For comparison with Qt Quick scene-graph presentation, run this as the device session user:

dconf write /apps/sailfish-browser/settings/native_presentation false

Set it to true, or reset the key, to return to the native window:

dconf reset /apps/sailfish-browser/settings/native_presentation

The setting is read once per process. Restart Browser after changing it; restart an already running captive portal separately. It applies to normal and private Browser tabs and captive portals, including their thumbnail capture paths. Embedded Sailfish WebView continues to use Qt Quick independently of this key.

See Sparse integration for the runtime package split, build order, URL services, profile isolation and acceptance checks.

Browser and Sparse handle application/pdf files from other applications and display PDF links in tabs using Gecko's PDF.js viewer. Browser's Find action searches the document, and Save as PDF saves the PDF itself. Sparse provides Find and Download in its native toolbar. Both require the matching Gecko PDF.js integration.

The browser is open source and licensed under Mozilla Public License v2.0 (http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/).

For more information see wiki: https://github.com/sailfishos/sailfish-browser/wiki/Sailfish-Browser-wiki