Notices

Just like promised the last week I spend some time coding a webbrowser for Sailfish which supports landscape and supports tabbing.
I based my work on the tinywebbrowser project by Mike7b4. So thanks for the initial code and inspiration.

The current features of the browser so far:

• Landscape support
• Tabbing support (real without reloading of tabs)
• Bookmark support
• Setting browser user agent
• Setting default font sizes
• Opening up links in new tab (by long press and hold on link)
• Copy links (by long press and hold on link)
• Open rtsp, rtmp and mms links with external viewer (e.g. LLs VideoPlayer)
• Setting DNS Prefetch
• Setting Offline WebApplication Cache
• Manually add bookmark with specific user agent
• Fast scroll to top or bottom of page
• Watch Youtube with internal or external player (e.g. LLs VideoPlayer) with direct link
• Download Youtube videos
• Private Browsing
• Clear Cache, Cookies, History
• ReaderMode (with NightMode)
• Copy text from website
• Search text in website
• Keyboard hotkeys
• Session support
• HTML5 Video Tag detection
• Embeded Youtube detection
• Integrated file manager
• Integrated Download Manager
• Keyboard Hotkeys (for TOHKBD or bluetooth keyboards)
• Set as default browser
• Backup Manager (Import/Export Bookmarks,Cookies,History,Settings)
• Proxy Support
• Fast Tab Switching
• Create Website Launchers
• Cookie Manager

You can find the code here: https://github.com/llelectronics/webcat
RPM here: https://openrepos.net/sites/default/...-1.armv7hl.rpm
Tablet (i486) RPM: https://openrepos.net/sites/default/...0.2-1.i486.rpm

It is recommend to use QtWebkit 5.212 from Version 2.9.7 onwards.
You can currently find RPMs here: https://openrepos.net/content/llelec...ebkit-5212-dev

Update:
Version 3.0.2

• Make quickscroll area smaller, appear after bigger threshold, and don't react on pressed
• fine tune extraThreshold for landscape quickscroll
• Disable some debug output
• Fixed moving of files (causing loss of data) in filemanager
• Fixed filepicker not able to select files
• Faster tab switching
• Don't loose keyboard shortcuts on tab switch / creating new Tab
• Add function to get nextTab and prevTab
• Added shortcut for quick tab switching ctrl+tab & ctrl+shift+tab
• hide tabBar and bookmarkList before switching tab
• Open Filemanager immediate and don't perform animation when entering about:file
• Add more keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+W - Close, Ctrl+T - New Tab, Ctrl+N - New Window, Escape - Stop)
• Allow swiping on urlTitle (only visible after website loaded completely) to switch tabs
• Use threshold value resolution dependent for back/forward swipes on minimized toolbar
• Fix highlighted tab not filling whole width with highlight

Version 3.0.1

• Fixed mimetype set as default browser
• Fixed keyboard shortcut for showing bookmarks not working
• Q should open up bookmarks/tab view aswell [like on BB10]
• Press A on keyboard to add current page to bookmarks
• Fixed editing of bookmarks / manually adding bookmarks
• Fixed wrong aligned ulrtext when pressing U shortcut on keyboard
• Made fancyscroller width a little bit shorter
• Fixed create folder in home + showing error message when folder cannot be created
• Don't show Add to places for home dir

Version 3.0.0

• Only add default bookmarks once on first start (not if bookmarks are empty)
• Cleanup (Make TabBar otherComponent)
• Added nightMode Button (replaced newWindow button) [Thx to Dharmendra63]
• Updated urls for default bookmarks
• Port away from SelectUrl page and use TabBar and BookmarkList components (faster navigation less clutter)*
• Added workaround for rendering cut when window in background
• Doubleclick on Goto Button switches to previous Tab
• Distinguish single and doubleClick on gotoButton more and don't fire singleClick event when doubleClicking (200msec delay timer checks for single and double click)
• Hide webview when bookmarkList is visible (more performance on some devices)
• Added File Properties Page for FM
• Open internal video player for audio files aswell
• Allow opening files with a click on file icon in properties
• Added RenameDialog + show full size of directories
• Added CreateDirDialog + fixed removing of folders
• Added permissionDialog
• Adapt to new SailfishOS Gallery video player defaults (Close button top right, Fullscreen button bottom right)
• Fixed margin bottom of fullscreenbutton + margin right for when maxTime is not visible
• Proper fix for video player component size and anchors after exiting fullscreen or changing orientation
• Added placesPage for FileManager
• Removed Pulleymenuitems available in placesPage and add properties to pulleymenu in filemanager
• Calculate dirSize in background so it does not freeze FileManager UI
• Added option to add custom bookmarks to placesPage
• Allow renaming of custom places items
• Allow setting desktop link to Webcat Fileman
• Double click on video player component switches to or from fullscreen
• Disable Split WebView as not working anymore
• Fixed Video Player Component wrongly anchored on close
• VideoPlayer Component takes now 1/3 of the the screensize in portrait mode and allows you to browse the web while watching a video
• Allow swiping video player component up and down to reposition when not in fullscreen or landscape
• Make sure webview gets visible when exiting fullscreen in portrait mode*
• Make sure to hide webview on fullscreen all the time
• Removed pressandhold on gotoButton and quick extraToolbar navigation
• Cleaned up extraToolbar. Removed newTab + closeTab.
• Visually redesigned MenuPopup to match rest of Webcat
• Always show 7 items in extra toolbar and align them to screen size
• Removed menuPopup from Tabbar (is available now in extraToolbar)
• Make extraToolbar bigger
• Use solid highlight color dimmed down as tabbar highlight (show active tab)
• Removed Jolla Tides default bookmark (website not active anymore)
• Added tor icon in tab/gotoButton if tor is enabled
• Fixed infoBanner for proxyPage and tor disabling
• Fixed urltext anchoring and switch to webtitle + weburl when title of webpage is available
• Fixed mediaDownloadRec overlaying menuPopup
• Fixed webview height/width by anchoring it to page and hide toolbars (except minimized main toolbar) at page end
• Simulate quickScroll UI in FancyScroller when in landscape mode
• Don't minimize toolbar when loading initial default about: urls
• Fixed mediadetect running on touchend conflicts with previously detected media (disabled touchend)
• Only check youtube url and add url to history if not about: url
• Don't hide mediaDownloadRec if atYBeginning and atYEnd
• Better workaroundRefresh method
• Set pixelAligned to true (slightly smoother website scrolling)

Version 2.9.8

• Detect HTML5 Media elements and embedded youtube videos after website completely loaded
• Cleaned up Mediadetect.js (make mediadetect rerun html5 a+v & yt embed detect on touchend)
• Some cleanup (make toolbar browserComponent and separate it from firstPage)
• Fixed show sun/moon icon when in readermode and toolbar is expanded again
• Some cleanup (make extraToolbar browserComponent and separate it from firstPage)
• Fixed some errors in TabList
• Updated translations
• Give visual feedback when started in private mode (Closes #59)
• Sync fmhelper changes with (LLs video Player) -> Copy/Move process in background
• Get rid of warnings during compile
• Make MediaDownloadRec browserComponent and separate it from firstPage
• Fixed mixed content media site (HTML5 + YT) download button
• Added Sailfish-Browser to share menu
• Use slightly different approach for devicepixelratio hack that visually looks more pleasing
• Prevent worker thread of FolderListModel from starting immediately
  de-duplicate some expensive calls
• Set contextProperties up before loading qml to avoid error messages
• Enable certain features only on newer qtwebkit versions if available (MediaSource Support, Autoplay Blockage)
• Added workaround for taphighlight not working on qtwebkit 5.212

Version 2.9.7

• Long press on close button in tabview closes all tabs
• Hide bookmarkbutton by default only show when urlbar is focussed
• Replace reload button in extraToolbar with closeTabButton
• Reduce spacing between BackIcon and ForwardIcon in toolbar
• Split Bookmarkspage in 2 columns with bookmarks on the left and tabs on the right if in landscape
• Added optional input method by long pressing on input box (opens a native input editing dialog)
• Updated devicePixelRatioHack
• Enable experimental.overview to better work with devicePixelRatioHack
• Deactivated pollyfills that aren't necessary anymore (new qtwebkit 5.212 takes care of it upgrade to it if you need svg and full es6 support)
• Save if media in MediaList is ytMedia
• Disable HTML5 Audio & Video workarounds (qtwebkit 5.212 takes care of html5 audio + video)
• Enable HTML5 Audio Tag detection and add to MediaList
• Slight update of the default user agent
• Handle onEnterFullScreen and onExitFullScreen
• Fix Restore Backup functionality
• Replaced old Adblocker rules with something more recent
• Attach to window.onload instead of overwriting it (fixes some sites like acid3 test or css3 test not loading)
• Some DevicePixelRatioHack.js optimizations
• Added alternative webkit user agent *(used by Sailfish Browser for youtube)
• Updated Jolla Sailfish Browser user agent

You can get the app in the warehouse and jolla store aswell and rate it there

Videodemonstration: http://youtu.be/1uVjaETqmMA
0.9-1 Videodemo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNYjdr5tCSs
0.9.6 Videodemo: http://youtu.be/vttkJgKOK48
1.9.9 Videodemo: http://youtu.be/WZXlqOrLKK8
2.0.9 Videodemo: https://youtu.be/Ck2TND0-PwE
2.1.0 Videodemo Backupmanager: https://youtu.be/sBge7JAlXro
2.2.0 Videodemo Fast Tab Switching: https://youtu.be/iaeMNppgOSQ
2.3 Videodemo:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeffwP7SXkY
3.0 New Features:https://youtu.be/Tm4uT1YZdfQ

nothing can see after install when I start it

Thanks for your work. But I have two problems:

Hmm... need to debug it. Just a sec.

I have also experienced these two errors (not being able to install through Warehouse and the blank screen).

The error code of the former is:
I know it's hard to debug such things when databases persist in the SDK

EDIT: Nevermind, that was not the right advice. But the error lies there.

For the white screen please make sure to have qt5-qtgraphicaleffects installed.
I will upload a new package with this as dependency when I figured out the db.js problem.
Thx for your help and patience.

Update: I think I fixed it: https://openrepos.net/sites/default/...-2.armv7hl.rpm

llelectronics you won't make it to harbour with gt5-qtgraphicaleffects

Really ? Hmm... then I need to think about something else to make it to harbour.

Thanks! Looks great!

Just few issues I noticed:

• The URL bar covers a small part of the page - on one website I visit, there a link to switch to mobile version, which is currently hidden behind the bar (I just noticed that the bar becomes thinner after scrolling, but only on longer pages).
• The tab bar is visually bit confusing - not really sure what is current tab... You could remove the 'New tab' and 'Close' buttons as they're accessible through the pulley menu
• Would you consider adding bookmark editing function? It is quite easy to edit bookmarks in the default browser (through a config file), but since here it's in a database... It is difficult to make a bookmark pointing to http://talk.maemo.org/search.php?do=getnew
• Switching to landcape and then back to portrait zooms the page in
• Rotation animation is not very smooth

These are just minor issues - I am very impressed by your work. I wouldn't have imagined something would replace the default browser in its initial version. Simply amazing.