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/...9.7-1.i486.rpm

It is recommend to use QtWebkit 5.212 from Version 2.9.7 onwards.
You can currently find RPMs here: https://build.merproject.org/package...ml5Audio+Video

Update:
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

Version 2.9

• Set InfoBanner parent on every call (Fixes InfoBanner showing in wrong position when in landscape)
• BackupPage Flickables ContentHeight set to column
• Massive update for translations (more strings are translatable/translated)
• Ignore magnet links and try to open them externally (you need an application which handles magnet links)
• Handle webkit crashes by trying to reload the page 3 times (4th time it shows an error message instead)
• Wrap and realign sectionheaders text on BackupPage
• Added https://www.tagesschau.de to devicePixelRatio blacklist (avoid crashes)
• Better devicePixelRatio Hack by also setting experimental.customLayoutWidth which loads mobile page more often directly instead of desktop page (blacklisting tagesschau.de again for this)
• Fix only allow closing of tabs if close button is visible
• Show webtitle when page loaded above urltext

Version 2.8

• Fixed OpenDialog wrong links to Android SD Card and SD Card
• Revamped Tabbar (vertical list instead of horizontal)
• Added MenuPopup for starting stuff from new Tabbar header (File
• Manager,Backup Manager, Video Player, Download Manager)
• Added new "about:" uris for Backup Manager, Video Player & Download Manager
• Added Pulley Menu for VideoPlayer Page to OpenFiles and Streams
• Hide Download Manager from Pulley (we don't need duplicates)
• Allow showing html code for selected text (scroll down to see html button)
• Added ViewPlaceholder for VideoPlayer if no media is loaded
• Save backups to the Documents folder by default (new harbour rule)
• Changed text of BackupPage to indicate changed saving path for backups
• Fixed Youtube Get Stream URLs (should reliably get 240p,360p & 720p mp4 streams excluding ciphered ones like vevo)
• Fixed ContextMenuOverlay blocking touch events on ytQualChooser close
• Added DefaultCoverActionGroup setting
• Added CookieManager (allows searching and removing of single cookies)

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

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.