Hi guys,
I've been using openSUSE 42.1 with Plasma for few months and I found KDE applications like KMail or KRDC quite nice. The only issue I had was with a webbrowser. I tried Konqueror and Qupzilla, but both these can't read websites like Google (gmail, google music, etc.) or dropbox properly, so I gave up.

My question: is there any KDE-based webbrowser that has all the newest features (like HTML5 support)? I'm starting to think there is nothing purely KDE-based out there nowadays...

Regards,
Radek

you could try Rekonq, Google Music and Gmail seems to work but Gmail is "Basic HTML View" only, that would be the KDE option

you could also try Otter which is QT based (not used)

Qupzilla is apparently moving to QtWebEngine (blink, chromium engine), i've not had major troubles with the WebKit based renderer in qupzilla, though.

google01103 wrote:you could try Rekonq, Google Music and Gmail seems to work but Gmail is "Basic HTML View" only, that would be the KDE option

you could also try Otter which is QT based (not used)

Rekonq is the same as Konqueror, when it comes to these services. For me Gmail is working in basic HTML view and Google Music isn't working, as half of the website's contect is not displayed at all.

luebking wrote:Qupzilla is apparently moving to QtWebEngine (blink, chromium engine), i've not had major troubles with the WebKit based renderer in qupzilla, though.

Any news when it may come up? Will it help for other websites, like dropbox, which currently, after logging in, doesn't display anything on the list of files?

http://blog.qupzilla.com/
Scheduled for qupzilla v2.0

I've no idea about dropbox, but that sounds more like a bug with the pages database (or a browser branch, ie. it checks for the user agent and does stupid stuff depending on this)

You're aware that you can just run chromium or firefox on the KDE desktop?

luebking wrote:http://blog.qupzilla.com/
Scheduled for qupzilla v2.0

Where it's written it was scheduled for v2.0 out there?

I've no idea about dropbox, but that sounds more like a bug with the pages database (or a browser branch, ie. it checks for the user agent and does stupid stuff depending on this)

I thought so, too, but when I changed the user agent in Konqueror to resemble Firefox 44.0.3 (newest Firefox version as for today) nothing changed in the display itself. The only difference was that GMail didn't show the message saying about an unsupported version of a browser any more. So still dropbox lacked the list of files and Google Music didn't display albums and songs.

You're aware that you can just run chromium or firefox on the KDE desktop?

I sure am and I've used Firefox since the day I installed openSUSE Leap. The case is that I wanted to try out pure KDE-based applications and - except for the browsers - all of them are really good. I wish Konqueror was up to date with current standards, so that I could use it instead of Firefox just to see if there is something better out there (as Firefox isn't as light as it used to be and Chromium is even heavier).

See here (cannot generate a direct link to the statement in the blog)
https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla/wi ... n-chromium

Your problem is not about "browsers" but about browser engines, the two used in various KDE/Qt applications are khtml and the Qt variant of webkit, but webkit started to drop behind when google forked blink. Qt5 added QtWebEngine which is based upon blink, but also a giant mess of code.

And of course about dropbox - I've never faced a page that completely failed in webkit (and I cannot really imagine why it does except that it relies on some external plugins or extensions in which case you'll *have* to use one of the supported browsers)

luebking wrote:See here (cannot generate a direct link to the statement in the blog)
https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla/wi ... n-chromium

It's there, true.

Your problem is not about "browsers" but about browser engines, the two used in various KDE/Qt applications are khtml and the Qt variant of webkit, but webkit started to drop behind when google forked blink. Qt5 added QtWebEngine which is based upon blink, but also a giant mess of code.

So it seems like every KDE-based webbrowser nowadays will lack this particular feature, which - unfortunately - is really popular. I'll stick to Firefox for now. Thank you for this answer.

And of course about dropbox - I've never faced a page that completely failed in webkit (and I cannot really imagine why it does except that it relies on some external plugins or extensions in which case you'll *have* to use one of the supported browsers)

Open a dropbox, then, and experience it for the first time

have no db account, but just fetched a file from there - no problem at all (qupzilla 1.8.9, qt-webkit 5.5.1)

luebking wrote:have no db account, but just fetched a file from there - no problem at all (qupzilla 1.8.9, qt-webkit 5.5.1)

The issue is not with fetching files from there, but displaying the list of available files in your account once you log in.