Just a micro blog today to say some facts. In case you live under the rocks, rekonq is a software that has just reached the “perfect social browser” status. In fact all rekonq users tend to try contacting me asking for bugs to fix or features to implement… 
Ok, stop joking and let’s see facts:
- rekonq 0.3.0 has been released today. I’m aware that a lot of distro are just releasing some packages about. If yours is not on the list or you prefer compiling code, you can find it through kde-apps or sf.
- With this release I can proudly say I reached my first goal: I feel I’m having “something” in my hands and a lot of people to share with. And I’m really happy about.
- We have a lot of things in our TODO list here and I really can’t wait starting implementing them. So, I really need this release to restart my happy developing nights
Enjoy!
Great. I’m using rekonq daily for a week now and i haven’t had problems at all. It just worked. (Except for favicons, they don’t always show up, but thats not a big problem)
btw, are there any plans for a bookmarks synchronization for kde? i really got used to xmarks in firefox. (i think it should be implemented in kde and not in rekonq, in order to work for konqueror as well)
Yes, bookmarks sync is a kde4.4 feature.
rekonq 0.4 will have it
Really, that’s amazing! Where can I find informations about this feature. I googled for it, but I found nothing about it.
Awesome, I was looking for a project like this, but was using arora. Keep up the great work!
Hi!!
1. Good job. In 0.3.0 I can now connect with SSL websites
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2. I want rekonq will be my daily browser someday, but it still lacks some things:
(In my kubuntu 9.10 system)
1- I have java installed, with firefox java.com detects my java and can play games in http://www.nescafeweb.com/. If I use rekonq java.com doesn’t find my java anda nescafe shows me this message: “You don’t appear to have Java installed, please download it in order to play these games” (Arora 0.10 has the same problem)
2- I still can play HTML5 videos like
http://openvideo.dailymotion.com/video/x9n4iu_black-eyed-peas-i-gotta-feeling_music
with Chromium and Firefox i can. (Arora 0.10 has the same problem)
3- We need bookmark synchronization. (I have read chris comment anda I hope it will be in 0.4)
4- Flash is not as accurate as it is in Firefox or Chromium. i.e. Farmville game on firefox shows black backgrounds in some animations, these black blackgrounds are not showed in other browsers. (Arora 0.10 has the same problem)
5. Kdewallet integration
6. Kget integration
Hi Rafa, some explanations about your requests.
Points 1, 2, 4 are (qt)webkit features. I hope the upcoming Qt 4.6 will have all these.
Point 3 is a kde feature. We are just using kde API for bookmarks. Point 5 will be a 0.4 feature, while we actually don’t have plans about kget integration.
Maybe someone will implement it in time for 0.4
Oks, thanks for your answers.
In point 4, i want to say rekonq instead of firefox. sorry.
Yes!! I´m a huge rekonq fan.
Gratulations to this great browser. I´m using it as default for some time already.
I think this should be the new default browser in KDE 4.5
Keep on rocking!
Frank
I use git version what I update about once a week and so far I have liked the speed. Just few GUI clitches with QtCurve style with the “new tab” and “close tab” buttons side of tabbars.
I have not filled a bug (wish) report but could it be possible to have the progress bar inside the addressbar like the progressbar on KDE (dolphin showing the space left etc)?
It would just make the rekonq really fit to the desktop
Hi !
I have previously used Firefox, Konqueror, Arora and Chromium but since a few weeks, Rekonq is my default browser as it uses WebKit and is well integrated into KDE.
Of course, some things are missing like KGet and KWallet support for a better integration but I will wait for version 0.4.
I also like the idea of using ClickToFlash (I have already used it in Arora).
So thanks to all developpers and keep up the great work.
Hi,i dont think kget support is planned since we use the default KDE download notifications to download files
Hi,
that’s right. According to the TODO list, KWallet support is planned for version 0.4 but KGet support is not mentioned, even for future releases.
Sorry for this little mistake.
Currently, KGet support needs the ability to list the links of a page.
It seems not easy with qt4.5.
If it become possible with qt4.6 and someone want add KGet support, it can be included as an option.
How about leaving out the “List Links” part and only support downloading via kget for now? That would already be very nice and is probably what most people use when integrating kget with konqueror.
I think the only feature that I really miss in rekonq is Adblock… preferably done like in Arora, with supporting the official EasyList service, so you don’t have to configure it manually.
Other than that, rekonq is really shaping up nicely!
Thanks for suggestion. I’ll surely try following your hint
+1 to the adblock feature.
It’s actually the only firefox extension I care about, all the others are dispensable. I think it’s the same for many kde users stuck with firefox.
I don’t think so since Konqueror does support adblocking.
true, but apart from that konqueror sucks greatly as a browser…
Regarding the bookmark synchronization: Could you (or whoever develops that for KDE 4.4) please consider integrating it with Mozillas Weave?
Weave is not far away from it’s final release, already works very fine, is open source, doesn’t depend on Mozilla since one can run ones own server if one wants, transfers and stores all uploaded content encrypted so privacy is safe and a few more things.
That way the whole KDE browser stuff & Firefox could be synced across multiple PCs with ease which sounds pretty awesome to me.
+1
A really portable technique for synchronizing browser bookmarks, history and passwords would really be nice and Mozilla Weave is a really good base for that. Additionally, it allows you to run your own server, unlike Google Chrome’s bookmark sync feature at the moment.
1. Text box like this edit text block line, the text is not vertically aligned. (comment reply box’s text is not aligned/adjusted)
2. zooming does not zooms the images, flash and other elements but only text.
3. new tab button, is not symmetrical with the tabs, please hover the mouse over the new tab, while using oxygen style. the highlight box over reaches the lower border of tab bar.
And yes, the 0.3.x release is just awesome. thanks. I’m delighted to see rekonq in good, stable shape
thanks.
About zoom, I think that’s awebkit feature. Take a look at webkit conf dialog and change it, to see if it fits your needs.
The new tab button position is just an hack and it’s style dependent. We’ll try fixing it at best.
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How about a framework for third-party addons? Something like in firefox. If it is easy to extend the browser, mew developers will show up immediately. Also you could leave the browser itself very basic and fast that way, beacause everything fancy is in the addons.
add-ons framework is not (yet) in rekonq feature list. That’s because I decided to work before on main features. A lightweight browsing experience is my first goal and after that I’d like to have a fantastic urlbar, a good “rekonq” home page, kwallet, adblock. And after all that I’d like to work on the “multitask affair”. Deciding and eventually implementing an add-ons framework will come after, sorry. I just said truth, no vanishing promises
love it, love it, love it!!! I’m really am excited about this solid project! You get nothing but respect from me for your efforts!!!
In my opinion rekonq is not suitable as a default web browser for KDE because
- it doesn’t seem to embed kparts to display files other than html (even non-kde browsers embed e. g. pdf files and it would be unacceptable for a kde browser to be able to integrate Adobe Reader but not Okular)
- it cannot browse any protocol other than http (not even file, that is, it cannot be used for local html files.
To sum up, it does not integrate KDE’s best technologies. KDE’s traditional and unique strength is this integration and it would be a loss to make it non-default and eventually discontinued.
In my opinion the only reasonable solution is WebKitPart in Konqueror (or a rewrite of Konqueror but with KParts and KIO). It already seams to match KHTML apart from some issue with cookies.
In this post I explained why any reasonable KDE browser (which could compete with any major browser) would technologically essentially be Konqueror or a rewrite of it, preferably with HTML part better than what KHTML currently is:
http://codeincarnate.com/entry/kyle/2009/04/26/konquering-problem-part-2#comment-233
Hi Daniel (Grosz? cannot decide the first name
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Thank you for your opinions, here are mine. Web Browsers have to browse the web (and browse it well). That’s just my idea.
Is embedding a pdf viewer a crucial feature? And what if (just in example) you prefer using Adobe Reader or Evince instead of Okular? In konqueror you are forced to, rekonq just loads your default app. I definitely think this is a feature
Browse other protocols is another non crucial one. I’ll work to provide some sort of local browsing, but surely I’ll not embed the DolphinPart. If I’d want do it, I had to start contributing to konqueror, not starting a new project. rekonq IS NOT and WILL NEVER be a sort of file manager/http-ftp browser/file viewer and so on. Haven’t learned yet dolphin lesson?
That’s because I’m not using kparts technology: I want a web browser to browse the net. I’m not interested to let rekonq being KDE default browser and never said or thought about. I just think can be mine (and some others’) default one..
Thank you for the answer. I accept that you like a separate web browser just for browsing the web ((X)HTML over HTTP(S)). My relatively strong post was against the idea from some comments to make rekonq the default KDE browser.
“And what if (just in example) you prefer using Adobe Reader or Evince instead of Okular? In konqueror you are forced to”
You aren’t. You can change the default KPart for PDFs to the netscape plugin viewer (which will probably embed Adobe Reader if it is installed) or you can make downloading and opening with Evince the default. You can even switch from Okular part to the netscape plugin viewer part for a single document if Okular fails to handle it well.
“Haven’t learned yet dolphin lesson?”
In my opinion Dolphin is not better than Konqueror for file management, at least feature-wise. Or sometimes it is better, but only in cases where Dolphin developers added a feature (such as file information panel) to Dolphin without adding it to Konqueror or Dolphin part – but these are features which could have been added to Konqueror as well, they just weren’t because it is not the default.
Right about kparts handling, sorry for the error about. Probably its too much I stopped using konq. I have to say I used it during all the kde3 period. First as everything app and then just as browser. I was really unhappy about konq “context switch” and I started searching for a new file manager.
Dolphin is not better than konq, I never said that, I just think it does the same things in a simpler and cleaner way.
i would like to also add that i would like to be able to open pdfs inside rekonq, i really dislike that in all other browsers other that konqueror that they open a new application.
other than that, great work!!