KDE Rekonq Browser Picks Up Many Features

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Rekonq Browser Picks Up Many Features

KDE Rekonq, the lightweight KDE web-browser that's a vastly different beast than Konqueror, is now up to version 0.8 stable with several new features...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTAwMTM

[DanL]

If you prefer a lightweight webkitgtk browser, there is also Midori, which is good, but would greatly benefit from more testing.

[accumulator]

I have tried rekonq a number of times in the past (last version 0.7) but it crashes on just way too many sites. More features is nice, but I hope they also focussed on stability in this new release. Lots of crashes also means it's likely to be exploitable..

I'd like to switch though, it's blazingly fast!

[Temar]

I like rekonq but since I updated to Kubuntu 11.10 rekonq randomly starts LibreOffice when visiting some sites. It does not display a document, it just starts the generic LibreOffice application. This is so annoying that I switched to Chrome for now.

[TheBlackCat]

I think a lot of the crashes were due to the old Webkit version that was shipped with Qt 4.7. I have been using QtWebkit 2.2 and have not seen a crash in a long time (except when I intentionally quit the program, that often leads to a crash).

-Todd

[DeepDayze]

I like rekonq but since I updated to Kubuntu 11.10 rekonq randomly starts LibreOffice when visiting some sites. It does not display a document, it just starts the generic LibreOffice application. This is so annoying that I switched to Chrome for now.

Yes that's what happens to me as well, also with it crashing soon after opening LO. Rekonq still needs a LOT of work before it can be prime time. Also these crashes can be exploitable by carefully crafted websites so this is also a security concern as well.

[Awesomeness]

Yes that's what happens to me as well, also with it crashing soon after opening LO. Rekonq still needs a LOT of work before it can be prime time. Also these crashes can be exploitable by carefully crafted websites so this is also a security concern as well.

As TheBlackCat already explained, crashes are results of outdated QtWebKit versions.
Rekonq does not ship its own rendering engine. It's just a GUI on top of Qt's WebKit implementation, just as Midori and Epiphany are GUIs for WebKit-GTK.

[Awesomeness]

PS: At least under openSUSE QtWebKit often crashes when leaving pages with Flash content. As far as I'm aware this is an oS-specific problem and – again – nothing the rekonq devs can do about it.

[dotancohen]

I like rekonq but since I updated to Kubuntu 11.10 rekonq randomly starts LibreOffice when visiting some sites. It does not display a document, it just starts the generic LibreOffice application. This is so annoying that I switched to Chrome for now.

Please link to the bug report. Thanks!

[Temar]

Please link to the bug report. Thanks!

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281988