Hi all,

I just set up Firefox 3.1b1 and it seems to be much quicker not only loading pages but also working on kde4. On ffox 3.0.4 sometimes moving windows top of fox is very slow and scrolling some webpages can be a pain.

It seems to be now a bad memory (after one hour of use).

Is it just me or does someone else have the same wibes? :shade:

( ps, yes, I have latest nVidia (180.08) drivers )

tkoski wrote:Hi all,

I just set up Firefox 3.1b1 and it seems to be much quicker not only loading pages but also working on kde4.

Oh no use Konqui .

No kidding. I read about some probelms with kde4 and firefox/thunderbird in german kubuntu forum. Probably that is a solution for that users.

I've been using FF 3.1 for a few weeks now, and it is indeed faster than 3.0.x.
I still had those rendering issues till the nvidia 180.06 beta driver was released (180.08 doesn't work for me).
Thunderbird 3 alpha isn't that bad either

I must say, Firefox 3.1 is quite snappy after you enable the new javascript engine. Now if only it was a KDE app... (I am well aware of the embryonic Qt port, by the way :P)

JontheEchinda wrote:I am well aware of the embryonic Qt port, by the way :P

Does anybody know what is happening with that? I haven't heard any news on it for a while now.

It got merged into mozilla-central, which is a very good thing. It is still very green and unimplemented though. No printing or plugins yet apparently.

bcooksley wrote:It got merged into mozilla-central, which is a very good thing. It is still very green and unimplemented though. No printing or plugins yet apparently.

Replaced Firefox with Konqui here. Seems to be a long distance till Firefox Qt?

Seems so. Hopefully progress will be made over time, and we will eventually be able to enjoy a Qt Firefox ( which will follow whichever KDE style is in effect, eg: Oxygen ) making it feel more part of the KDE environment.

I'm hoping that a Qt Firefox will be a reality soon as well. But I'm still wondering how it would compare to the official Firefox. Would all extensions still work for example or aren't they dependant on GTK, Qt, etc.?

From what I read, once they get it working properly it should be a feature-complete, fully supported core part of the firefox release. That means full extensions support, full theme support, etc. But that seems to be a ways off now. From what I understand they need some way to translate firefox's internal xul to qt, although that my be done by this point.

Hi guys,

you can find more info about Firefox+qt subject from here and some people might find this quite interesting

Are far is the development of Firefox with Qt4? From the screenshot looks really close to finish maybe not? Probably be in by the time Firefox 4 is released.

Yeah, I hope it's coming soon... the last I heard about it is the links tkoski posted, and they're half a year old!
Would love to have a proper Qt4 Firefox.

I compiled from central a while ago, (maybe a month or two ago) and there has been some improvement since that release posted above.

I had to change a function definition to get it to compile and add in a value (something like CAIRO_QT) into an enum but other than that it compiled fine, and it actually ran without freezing unlike the binary released before, it looked ugly, but to my surprise my themes actually worked properly (I think they still looked a bit uglier than on regular FF but they did work) and my plugins seemed to work fine too.

It had rendering issues though, a website loaded in FF-qt looked different to one loaded in regular FF, usually extra spacing was added between items.