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 The very first version of QupZilla has been released in December 2010 and it was written
 in Python with PyQt4 bindings. After a few versions, QupZilla has been completely rewritten
-in C++ with the Qt Framework. The Windows version of QupZilla was compiled using MinGW, but due to
-a huge problem with Flash, it is now compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler 2008.
-First public release was 1.0.0-b4.
+in C++ with the Qt Framework. First public release was 1.0.0-b4.
 
 Until version 2.0, QupZilla was using QtWebKit. QtWebKit is now deprecated and new versions
 are using QtWebEngine.