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Re: [trinity-users] next problem, konqueror's 75% crash rate when clicking on an http link in kmail

From: "Dave Lers" <lists@...>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 01:24:36 -0700
Timothy Pearson wrote:
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>> Timothy Pearson wrote:
>>>> the only thing Konqueror cannot browse is resource hungry web
>>>> sites.
>>>> While I'd love to see that change, I'm not holding my breath.
>>
>>> As you've probably guessed fixing this is very hard.  It would
>>> require integrating a different browser engine (such as Webkit)
>>> into
>>> a Konqueror plugin while retaining the functionality of the
>>
>> What about a Konqueror plugin for Firefox/Iceweasel? I can 'open in
>> Iceweasel' from Konqueror, but not the other way around. Being able
>> to
>> extend the Iceweasel Application panel with file extensions/URL
>> types
>> that can be opened in a running Konqueror instance would be really
>> nice.
>>
>> ...Editing mimeTypes.rdf looked promising, but it appears to be
>> limited to base executables - '/opt/trinity/bin/konqueror' works
>> (new
>> instance), '/opt/trinity/bin/kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing' is
>> ignored/won't show up as an option.
>
> Sounds like a potential security nightmare.  It's one thing to have a
> web
> plugin to Konqueror (which is not natively network enabled, only its
> plugins are) and quite another to have something plug in to Firefox,
> which
> is natively Web enabled.

I think I used the wrong word (plugin), all I'm talking about is 'open
with Konqueror' functionality in Iceweasel/Firefox.