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Saturday, October 15th 2005, 8:47pm

[Konqueror]SUGGESTION: Konqueror running on top of Firefox engine

I want to suggest that we should get Konqueror running on top of the Firefox engine, like how Epiphany (for GNOME) runs their browser on top of Mozilla. It will really solve alot of those KHTML "misrenders".

So, would it be possible??

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Saturday, October 15th 2005, 9:55pm

From Konqueror's side it has always been possible to embed other render engines because of the KPart concept.

Two KDE developers have been working on a Qt based version of Gecko and I think it somewhat came to a halt when only one of the got permissions to work in Mozilla's source repository and now they are busy with other things.

Personally I see little need for that anyway, besides the technical coolness of course :)

I use KHTML without any problems day in, day out and if I eventually encounter a site that doesn't work and I really think I want their content, I can always start Firefox for them.

Currently the only site having that privilege is our company's intranet.

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Saturday, October 15th 2005, 10:03pm

A Kpart was started for the Gecko renderer at the 2004 Akademy. (http://dot.kde.org/1094924433/) It was never fully completed, and I don't know what the current status is now. If someone knows jump in here. But I guess the short answer is yes it is possible.

Perhaps you could fill out bug reports for Konqueror when you find that Konqueror is misinterpreting the W3C recommendations. This way you'd be improving a KDE technology.

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Saturday, October 15th 2005, 10:41pm

it would be great to see a Gecko support because I couldn't use the shortcuts on GMAIL or some site like that. Konqueror is lacking it. It would help other users too ;)

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Sunday, October 16th 2005, 12:43pm

AFAIK got GMAIL fixed in Konqueror of 3.5

It often helps to check if changing the user agent makes a difference, because sometimes the sites just deliver bad code when they don't know KHTML or mistake it to be Internet Explorer (some website use really silly browser checks)

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Sunday, October 16th 2005, 5:01pm

true, but the Gecko engine had fixed these problems along time ago, because there's more site recognizing the Gecko engine than the KHTML engine.

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Sunday, October 16th 2005, 5:05pm

I understood that the main problem is that the site checked for Safari instead of KHTML, but this might be a problem that already got fixed on Goggle's side.

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