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Hi!
Do you think it would be possible to display XUL in Konqueror and to provide access to the DOM-functions for Kross? A lot of Firefox-Extension would run.
Which possibilities exist for realization?
-Transforming the XUL to ui and display it using Qt's functions
-Transforming the XUL to HTML
-Integration of Gecko

The User

I do not think it's a good idea to implement supports for "most Firefox extensions". If at all, Konqueror should support _all_ Firefox extensions, but this would naturally turn Konqueror into Firefox in most aspects. (For a similar incident, think of KWin. Many people wanted to implement the Compiz API, but this would have turned KWin into Compiz, with all goods and esp. all bads.)

A really cool thing would be a good and clean API for scripted Konqueror plugins, and GHNS support to bring us to the same level as Firefox in this regard.

I think it would be a boring job and would need a lot of time.
There are a few Firefox-Addons making the FF important.
What do you think are the most important ones?
Adblock Plus has a Konqueror-pendant.
Down Them All - we have KGet.
ChatZilla - we have Konversation which isn't integrated into Kopete.
Firebug and FirePHP - most important!
FireFTP - Konnqueror is a better FTP-client
Javascript/Java/Cookie/Cache-options - Konqueror has built in support
Maybe iMacros?
There are also a few eyecatchers:
FoxSaver
Cooliris
Cool Preview
Ctrl Tab

I definitely agree that Konqueror terribly lacks for extensions, and adding support for a wealth of existing addons is very tempting. That said, implementing the xul api would be a huge task. Also, as already mentioned above, it would be basically recreating another firefox. If this is what KDE users want, then I would suggest that further development be targeted towards firefox-qt. This port would be far easier than implementing an entire api for Konqueror, and then have the headache of maintaining it with the mozilla devs.

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Firebug is most important for me!

Well, then implement a Firebug-Addon for Konqueror.
It\'s also most important for me.

Hmm i would also love to see firefox addressbar (with fulltext search feature). This two things stop me from migrating to Konqi

Dinth wrote:Hmm i would also love to see firefox addressbar (with fulltext search feature). This two things stop me from migrating to Konqi

There is already an idea for that: [SUBMITTED] Firefox 3 Like Address Bar for Konqueror

I think it is possible to make Konq scripted as there are efforts such as Kross which are making for example JavaScript-like addons avaiable for plasma. Thus the reall goodies can be made by basically add a Kross interface to Konqueror.
Also as it seems XUL isn't really the base for most of the addons. I had a look at the innerts of Firebug which consists of JavaScript and some XML and information pieces, which can be put in one of the KDE-/XDG-DataDirs.