How to make Konqueror a viable web browser

2handband · 11-15-2010, 10:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mlangdn

So much for Konqueror after the updates of -current. It crashes constantly. I did not upgrade qt from the one I built a couple of days ago. I copied the last few lines from the cli after starting konqueror:

Code:

konqueror(8284)/kio (KIOJob) KIO::TransferJob::slotMimetype: mimetype() emitted again, or after sending first data!; job URL = KUrl("http://static.chartbeat.com/js/chartbeat.js") 
konqueror(8284)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde4Factory: The library "/usr/lib64/kde4/kwebkitpart.so" does not offer a qt_plugin_instance function.
Segmentation fault
michael@BlackWizard:~$

I'll visit this later.

Interesting... I haven't experienced any crashes. What version of qt do you have? My Kwebkit Konqueror was mega-unstable until I installed 4.7.1.

mlangdn · 11-15-2010, 04:03 PM

I used your link, its 4.7.1 as well.
After this post, I haven't had another crash. Weird.

vss2094 · 11-17-2010, 05:43 PM

@2handband

Very Good!
Now I could open my gmail in konqueror in standard view instead of basic html view.

Only hassle was compile time for qt-4.7.1, it took 3 days to figure out that nearly 2GB of free space is required to complile qt.
I had less space on that drive and every time it froze due to lack of space, and I thought otherwise.
Any way nice exercise for me.

Replying from konqueror having default Webkit view.

Thanks

2handband · 11-17-2010, 08:14 PM

Update: I just discovered that you CAN make kwebkit the default engine using the graphical interface. In the System Settings dialog, go into File Associations and then text>html>embedding. Put Kwebkit at the top of the list. This is still kind of convoluted; frankly I think the terminal command is faster.

2handband · 11-22-2010, 03:37 PM

Important update: the QT upgrade is no longer necessary! This morning Slackware -current got QT 4.7. If you're running -current just upgrade as usual and away you go. then you can follow the other steps to enable kwebkit and make Konqueror a great web browser again.

mlangdn · 11-22-2010, 10:44 PM

I saw the qt update, however, I passed over it when reading the changelog. I didn't pay attention to the version number.

bonixavier · 11-24-2010, 11:51 AM

Thank you very much for the instructions. Gmail now renders correctly.