No support in KDE4 for Firefox ?

Jaroslav Reznik jreznik at redhat.com
Mon Feb 9 09:28:00 UTC 2009


On Friday 06 February 2009 20:50:11 Lukáš Tinkl wrote:
> Dne Friday 6. of February 2009 18:50:43 Arthur Pemberton napsal(a):
> > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Eelko Berkenpies <fedora at berkenpies.nl>
>
> wrote:
> > > Firefox is based on GTK instead of Qt which KDE4 is based on.
> > >
> > > On a side note, this is a better addon, imho, for firefox to blend into
> > > KDE4.x: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7962
> > >
> > > Oxygen ftw! :)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Eelko Berkenpies
> > > http://www.berkenpies.nl/
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:14:04 -0700, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com>
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > >> What is this guy talking about ?
> > >>
> > >> "While I think that Konqueror is a great browser there is sadly no
> > >> real KDE 4 support for my favorite browser, Firefox, except the Nokia
> > >> beta Qt4 port or the theme "
> > >>
> > >> http://www.internetling.com/2009/02/04/chrome-on-kde4-why-not/
> >
> > Would be interesting if Konqueror could swap out engines between
> > KHTML, WebKit and Gecko
>
> AFAIK there's some work going on in KDE SVN's playground to support webkit
> as an alternative renderer in Konqueror (beside khtml).

I tried it, it's not 100% right now and it's slower than Arora with same 
QtWebKit. I think it uses Konqueror's network code.

Jaroslav



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