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P@t | # 281 | 2016-06-09, 09:15 | Report

Originally Posted by romu View Post

I've got an iPhone 5S with iOS 9.3. And to be honest, I hope it would be way faster than the SFOS stock browser, it's not stellar.

IMHO, the major concern about the SFOS browser is it runs a totally outdated Gecko engine and more and more websites are just not browsable.

afaik Jolla is working on upgrading the gecko engine to 38

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nh1402 | # 282 | 2016-06-09, 09:25 | Report

Work is also under way to upgrade QT to 5.6.

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Feathers McGraw | # 283 | 2016-06-09, 09:33 | Report

Originally Posted by nh1402 View Post

Work is also under way to upgrade QT to 5.6.

That's good news! Any idea if that will fix the annoying black screen when loading high res images? Pretty sure that was a Qt thing, it affects quite a few apps (Quickddit, Neliapila etc.).

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szopin | # 284 | 2016-06-09, 09:48 | Report

Originally Posted by Feathers McGraw View Post

That's good news! Any idea if that will fix the annoying black screen when loading high res images? Pretty sure that was a Qt thing, it affects quite a few apps (Quickddit, Neliapila etc.).

It's been fixed in quickditt quite a while ago (that's why some pictures will load twice as it uses different method to load it then)

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LouisDK | # 285 | 2016-06-09, 10:15 | Report

Originally Posted by P@t View Post

afaik Jolla is working on upgrading the gecko engine to 38

Why such an old release? The latest stable Gecko ESR release is 45. 38 is way old and went EOL at june 7th.

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Bundyo | # 286 | 2016-06-09, 10:17 | Report

Wasn't the previous version 38?

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P@t | # 287 | 2016-06-09, 10:40 | Report

Originally Posted by LouisDK View Post

Why such an old release? The latest stable Gecko ESR release is 45. 38 is way old and went EOL at june 7th.

I haven't verified all and everything but I think the work to get to 38 started last year and was stalled for a while. And I think the current version is 31.

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Bundyo | # 288 | 2016-06-09, 11:51 | Report

The Electrolysis gets finally enabled in 48, so maybe that?

Naah.

https://github.com/sailfishos/sailfi...o_embedlite_38

And here is the Qt activity, seems 5.6 is actively worked on:
https://git.merproject.org/mer-core/qtbase/activity

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nodevel | # 289 | 2016-06-09, 14:49 | Report

Originally Posted by Bundyo View Post

The Electrolysis gets finally enabled in 48, so maybe that?

Naah.

https://github.com/sailfishos/sailfi...o_embedlite_38

And here is the Qt activity, seems 5.6 is actively worked on:
https://git.merproject.org/mer-core/qtbase/activity

I just hope they stick to Gecko even after upgrading Qt to 5.6.

Yes, there will be QtWebEngine (based on Blink of Chromium 45) in Qt 5.6, but once/if it is released then it won't be that difficult to rebase the alternative browsers (Webcat, WebPirate) on top of it. Yet it is quite unlikely there will be any community browsers based on Gecko and some variability is needed. Today, when something doesn't work in Webcat, it is almost certain it won't work in WebPirate either, yet if often works in Sailfish Browser (like IPython which is usable only with the default browser) and then there are cases where it's the other way around - therefore it would be sad to have all the browsers with the same engine.

There are also more up to date alternatives to the aging Gecko based browser on Fremantle, but I always prefered the robustness of it and flexibility of about:config. I hope SailfishOS keeps this legacy.

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mikecomputing | # 290 | 2016-06-09, 16:28 | Report

Originally Posted by nh1402 View Post

Work is also under way to upgrade QT to 5.6.

now that would be nice. I beleive it when I see it....

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