Platfer Preview

Platfer Preview (formerly known as PlatferPlex) is a free and open-source web browser created and developed by Cyril John Magayaga. It is primarily based on free and open-source software.

It is available for Linux operating system and Windows with WSL (Windows is not officially supported at this time).

History

• December 19, 2022, Cyril John Magayaga announced the new creation of the Platfer Preview web browser.
• January 18, 2023, Cyril John Magayaga announced the Platfer Preview, upcoming December 2024 on Linux operating system like Python programming language.
• January 20, 2023, Cyril John Magayaga announced the starting preview development of Linux distros and Windows Subsystem for Linux including Ubuntu.
• January 23, 2023, Cyril John Magayaga announced the successful web browser of Platfer Preview for Linux, fixing new tabs.
• August 9, 2023, Cyril John Magayaga announced the update code (all def to class Platfer) but forgot to fix multiple and unlimited tabs.
• March 16, 2024, Cyril John Magayaga announced the Platfer was split into Platfer Preview.
• March 23, 2025, Cyril John Magayaga announced that unlimited numbers of new tabs and adding GLib had successfully worked.
• March 24, 2025, Cyril John Magayaga wrote "Platfer Preview can't play this video or audio." WebVTT didn't work.
• March 29, 2025, Cyril John Magayaga announced the addition of GStreamer libraries.
• January 26, 2026, Cyril John Magayaga announced that there is no internet connection on the website and the upcoming tile-matching video game and word puzzle video game.

Getting Started

Quick start options are available:

 # Step 1: Clone the repository.
  $ git clone https://github.com/Platfer/Platfer.git
  $ cd Platfer

  # Step 2: Install the Python programming language.
  $ sudo apt-get install python3
  
  # Step 3: Install the GTK, WebKit2, GLib, and GStreamer
  $ sudo apt-get install -y gir1.2-gtk-3.0 webkit2gtk-4.1 gir1.2-glib-2.0 gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-libav
  
  # Step 4: Build and run the application.
  $ python preview/linux/PlatferPreview.py

Fix it missing,

  # Step 1: Clone the repository.
  $ git clone https://github.com/Magayaga/PlatferPreview.git
  $ cd PlatferPreview

  # Step 2: Install the Python programming language.
  $ sudo apt-get install python3
  
  # Step 3: Install the GTK, WebKit2, GLib, and GStreamer
  $ sudo apt-get update --fix-missing
  $ sudo apt-get install -y gir1.2-gtk-3.0
  $ sudo apt-get install webkit2gtk-4.1
  $ sudo apt-get install gir1.2-glib-2.0
  $ sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-base \
    gstreamer1.0-plugins-good \
    gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad \
    gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly \
    gstreamer1.0-libav
  
  # Step 4: Build and run the application.
  $ python3 src/PlatferPreview.py

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2022-2026 Cyril John Magayaga