Why Firefox is not a good choice of browser for a KDE/Plasma-based product

Markus Slopianka kamikazow at gmx.de
Fri Mar 28 02:10:52 UTC 2014


On Thursday 27 March 2014 14:49:24 Kevin Kofler wrote:

> IMHO, QtWebEngine is a step backwards all over the place (compared to
> QtWebKit). :-( Nested bundling (bundled Chromium which bundles the world),
> much more limited platform (CPU) support, less powerful API (because
> Chromium doesn't expose as much as WebKit did, which limits what QtWebEngine
> can offer), no GStreamer support, no QNetworkAccessManager/KIO support, …

If anybody is able to continue to maintain QtWebKit (eg. by coordinating with 
the WebKit-GTK people to use the same branch), I'd welcome them with open 
arms.


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