RFC: kde stability proposal (redux)

Eli Wapniarski eli at orbsky.homelinux.org
Wed Mar 10 17:39:59 UTC 2010


So essentially what this means is that Konqueror becomes less and less 
relevant. A real shame.

Eli

On Wednesday 10 March 2010 17:31:10 Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 March 2010 15:09:30 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > Quoting José Matos <jamatos at fc.up.pt>:
> > > On Wednesday 10 March 2010 05:24:05 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > >> And its usually up to everyone else to do what needs to be done to get
> > >> their  browser to work otherwise people can't use it, even if they
> > >> want to. Konqueror is capable of using webkit as its main rendering
> > >> engine. Chrome uses webkit. Chrome works, KDE based aps don't. Hell
> > >> their are times when I've tried to access pages on KDE's site and
> > >> have seen Konqueror crash.
> > > 
> > > FWIW one of the reasons given for chrome to use a separate process for
> > > each tab was that if flash crashes then the browser will not be taken
> > > with.
> > > 
> > > So the idea that flash crashes in other browsers other than
> > > konqueror is not a
> > > new one. :-)
> > 
> > Perhaps not, but it still doesn't take anything away from the fact
> > that under Chrome / Webkit the browser does not crash when I try to
> > view flash videos in CNN and other sites; under Konqueror / Webkit it
> > does. They're both Webkit. So..... huh ??????
> 
> It's not WebKit as WebKit... Konqueror uses QtWebKit and lot of stuff is
> different to Chrome WebKit. Especially handling of non native ns plugins
> like Flash.
> 
> Jaroslav
> 
> > Eli

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