Firefox Might Finally Be Moving Closer To Better KDE Integration

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Firefox Might Finally Be Moving Closer To Better KDE Integration

For KDE desktop users unhappy with the level of integration with Mozilla's Firefox web browser, the situation might finally be changing...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTczODk

[89c51]

Does this mean we might see a Qt port of FF in the future or is it just about the Dolphin File manager.

[Akka]

Does this mean we might see a Qt port of FF in the future or is it just about the Dolphin File manager.

As I understands it this is mostly up to the community. Even the gtk integration is mostly done by the community as I understands it. I think it always has been like that.

[peppercats]

Developer time is probably better spent on making Qupzilla better. I can't wait to use lxqt + qupzilla in my qt environment.

I, for one, welcome our new qt overlords.

[zanny]

Or Rekonq. I love Rekonq. Just wish someone would fix the KTextEdit submission bug where if you type too fast in the address bar and hit enter, you don't get the complete text you typed.

I tried, but getting into the internals of the frameworks gave me a migraine.

Other than that, it has all the key parts - auto searching, syncing (via ftp atm, hopefully eventually via something else) adblock, and there is active development on supporting Chrome extensions.

[shmerl]

Thunderbird needs it even more

While Firefox can be reasonably integrated with some tweaking (more like making GTK+ play well with KDE in general), Thunderbird is in the worse position. For example on Windows it has good indicators for new mail (in the system tray). Good luck having the same level of comfort with notifications in KDE...

[rob11311]

Does this mean we might see a Qt port of FF in the future or is it just about the Dolphin File manager.

Probably to my reading of the threads, it's something along the lines of the openSUSE FF integration, which seems to me to work pretty well in openSUSE releases including Tumbleweed rolling release, issues with dialogs, icons and copy/paste annoyances which make FF clumsy in KDE environment. My reading of the original thread, was it's other distros who have trouble porting it consistently without the original developer.

A Qt based FF would be nice, I'm just not sure where/what is going to motivate the effort. On Desktop RAM has grown faster than FireFox memory consumption, just tried visiting same pages/tabs with Reqonq for a comparison and it did save 200MB overal, with more shared; but that's freshly started without all the Add Ons, syncing and vast bookmark collection that the frontline browser accumulates.

[rob11311]

While Firefox can be reasonably integrated with some tweaking (more like making GTK+ play well with KDE in general), Thunderbird is in the worse position. For example on Windows it has good indicators for new mail (in the system tray). Good luck having the same level of comfort with notifications in KDE...

There's a chicken and egg situation there. KDE has it's own capable integrated Mail client, so there's likely few KDE users who use Thunderbird, or developers who care about it.

KDE's own browser tech suffered comparatively in feature race so FF was main browser (even under KDE) in the large distros (eventually selected as the best available starting point by Apple for Safari).

[torturedutopian]

FINALLY... This (and oo.org integration... and most of all, the poor flash for Linux) have been anoying me a lot for years and years !

[gufide]

FINALLY... This (and oo.org integration... and most of all, the poor flash for Linux) have been anoying me a lot for years and years !

Shameful software such as flash don't deserve a better support for linux, they just deserve to die... modern browser supports everything flash is capable, even protected content like netflix will soon be supported