webkitgtk flawed
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Banshee directly mentioned - whoops!
Well, I'd like to update webkitgtk to the latest version very often. Last I checked, it always required a ridiculous amount of very recent system libraries, though. I'm not up for rebuilding Slackware from the ground up to get an up-to-date webkitgtk. Edit: I've changed the 2.4.9 SlackBuild for webkitgtk 2.10.7 like this and it at least starts to build this time: Code:
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webkitgtk 2.10 utilize a different API compared to previous 2.4.9 and both can be co-installable on one system
in SBo we have 3 different webkit: webkitgtk (use GTK2), webkitgtk3 (use GTK3), and webkit2gtk (use API2) see here: https://slackbuilds.org/cgit/slackbu...p&q=webkit2gtk |
Thanks, willysr.
But I guess this means that Banshee is stuck on 2.4.x and since development has stalled over the last year, it might be time to switch to a different media management program... |
Not to mention, webkitgtk requires a VERY lengthy build time very similar to xulrunner based browsers and about as much resources.
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The original blog is worth a read. Lifting some snippets out that might be useful for this forum:
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brobr, thank you for posting the original blog link...fascinating read.
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I was able to build WebKitGTK 2.10.7 on a Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty base. JULinux 10 which has been elevated to my primary distro and uses this base includes Midori as one of three browsers. Midori on Ubuntu uses the older 2.4.x WebKitGTK base. I did compile Midori against the new WebKit but had a bad memory leak issue which caused the memory to become full and, I also had a problem with it crashing when I backspaced in the address bar. And, with any Epiphany version older than 3.14.x not building against WebKitGTK 2.10.x, and the newest Epiphany version on the Trusty base being 3.12 it's too risky to try and build Epiphany 3.14 on the Trusty base outside of a fake root. Slackware users would only run Epiphany if they have Dropline GNOME which does have a 3.14 version for Slackware 14.1. The only other browsers I know of that run WebKit2GTK are minimalist browsers which do not have bookmarks. The following is a screenshot on which I have the Lariza Browser which runs WebKit2 on the left and Midori with WebKit1 on the right both with html5test.com.
Attachment 20952 I usually browse with Pale Moon which has many security updates having recently switched from SeaMonkey as my main browser. I have FossaMail as my email client which is a fork of Thunderbird put out by the same group as Pale Moon. |
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