# Features

The most important features and improvements are highlighted here, it would make this list too long if we were to include all the features and improvements. You will discover even more features in this documentation and in the `ChangeLog` and `NEWS` files.

- ## Orthodox File Manager (OFM) features

  - Two powerful and easy to use OFM panels.

  - Command Line and optional Terminal emulator below.

  - Strong keyboard orientation and the ability to perform all functions without the mouse.

  - Context-dependent invocation of scripts and programs &eg; mouse click/&Enter; (execute or open with the associated application), F3 (view) and F4 (edit).

  - User Menu, create your own customized menu.

  - History &eg; Folder History, Popular &URL;s, &etc;

  - Virtual file systems (VFS) &eg; for Remote Connections, archives, search results, synchronizer.

  - Powerful internal viewer and editor via kparts supporting almost every file format.

  - Advanced Search module: searching in archives and search content on remote file systems.

  - Several Panel view modes via the Sidebar.

- ## &krusader; tools

  - Remote Connections: &FTP;/SAMBA with SFTP/SCP support via KIO Slaves

  - Locate &GUI; frontend

  - Synchronize Folders

  - Mount-Manager

  - Disk Usage

  - Root mode

- ## &krusader; features

  - Archive Handling: browsing, unpack, pack, testing. Supported archives: ace, arj, bzip2, deb, gzip, iso, lha, rar, rpm, tar, zip and 7-zip.

  - Checksum Creation and Verification mechanism that supports md5, sha1, sha256, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512, tiger, whirlpool, cfv, and crc.

  - Calculate occupied space of files and folders, archives and remote filesystems.

  - Directory comparison and filtering.

  - Compare files by content via external diff programs like &kompare;, KDiff3 or xxdiff.

  - Rename files and folders via KRename

  - Completely supports drag'n'drop: drag from &konqueror; straight into a `.tar.gz` file, from &krusader;'s panel into the trash bin, the desktop or into &konqueror;

  - Preserve date for local targets at copy/move operations.

  - F9 opens a Terminal Window in the current folder.

  - Easy editing of file permissions and ownership and Numeric Permissions.

  - Selection filters used in &eg; Synchronizer and KruSearcher.

  - Jump-Back

  - &MIME; type-aware.

  - Tabbed panels and Tabbed Editor/Viewer.

  - Quick search, select and filter

  - File splitter

  - Mouse Gestures

  - Quick Navigation in the Location Toolbar.

  - WhatsThis Help function in favour of tooltips where reasonable.

  - Sync-browsing

- ## Customize &krusader; to your own needs

  - Konfigurator &krusader;'s configuration center.

  - Main Toolbar, Actions Toolbar for user actions and bookmarks.

  - Key-bindings

  - Colors

  - Panel profiles

  - Bookmark-Manager

  - Selection Modes

  - Many more features can be configured the way you like.

- ## &krusader; Extensions

  - UserActions

  - Color Profiles

  - Key-binding Profiles

  Download and upload your favourite &krusader; extensions at store.kde.org.

## New features in the &krusader;-1.80.0 Final 3rd Stone release

- Archive improvements

  - Password support for: arj, ace, rar and zip. Passwords can be stored in Kwallet

  - 7-zip support, by external applications 7z and 7za.

  - Auto-detection support, allowing you to open hidden archives (&eg; OpenOffice documents).

  - Packing/unpacking is now in the background.

- Brief View

- Many improvements of the UserActions system.

- Countless usability enhancements, especially in Konfigurator and the heavily reordered menubar.

- Media button

- Copy/Move: preserve all attributes (time, owner, group).

- Dim the colors of the inactive panel.

- Renaming a filename without extension, single instance mode, start to system tray, check this out in Konfigurator

- Configurable Atomic extensions, so that extensions like `.tar.gz` are shown as one part in the Ext Column.

- Context menu for bookmarks and enable/disable special bookmarks.

- Restyled MenuBar

- Terminal emulator enhancements bringing new functions, new usages and new look.

- Synchronizer enhancements and parallel threads for slow &FTP; servers.

- Single instance mode, start to system tray

- Context menu for permanent bookmarks.

- Full support for ACL permissions, like properties, preserve attributes, synchronizer and other.

- Searcher-results, Locate-results, Synchronizer-results: support for dragging items and copy to clipboard (&Ctrl;C).

- Many bug fixes.

## New features in the &krusader;-1.90.0 Power Stone release

- Last release for &kde; 3.x with a big collection of Useractions.

## New features in the &krusader;-2.0.0 Mars Pathfinder release

- The first release for the &kde; 4.x series

- &krusader; works on &Windows;! (But not so useful and powerful yet as under &Linux;)

- Queue manager!

- Five methods in the panel!

## New features in the &krusader;-2.1.0-beta1 Rusty Clutch release

- Fast text/hex viewer for huge filesizes.

- Locked tabs.

- Queued packing / unpacking.

- Better trash integration.

- The quick search, select and filter bar supports regular expressions for matching files.

## New features in the &krusader;-2.5.0 Clear Skies release

- Ported to &kf5-full;.

- The new Quickfilter bar with three different modes to operate: select, search and filter.

- Reworked Queue Manager (JobMan) and the new Job Toolbar.

## New features in the &krusader;-2.7.0 Peace of Mind release

- Quick Search in Bookmark menu.

- Pinned tabs.

- Tooltip with file information when you hover a file name.

- Extended options for Tree Panel at the Side Bar.

## New features in the &krusader;-2.8.0 A New Day release

- Duplicating tabs with double click.

- Closing tabs with &Ctrl;+&LMB; or &Alt;+&LMB; (configurable).

- Undoing the closed tabs while the app is running.

- Dynamically sized tabs.

- Configuration options for new tab position, tab button visibility and New Tab Button behavior.

- History and suggestions in New Folder dialog.

- Cycling through full name, file name and extension selections with Rename shortcut (F2 by default).

- &Shift;Del removes undesired entries from the history in various dialogs.

- Improved sync between the panel and embedded terminal.

- Improved color configuration.

## New features in the &krusader;-2.9.0 Sixth Life release

- Ported to &kf6-full;.

  Settings are saved on a crash.

If you are using a development or &git; version, it is possible that the latest new features are not yet in the The &krusader; Handbook. Please read the Changelog file online or in the &krusader; sources to find out more about the new features. For a brief description, please read the NEWS file online or in the &krusader; sources. User feedback and Bug reports are always welcome!