Sailfish web browser
02-25-2020, 05:42 AM
(02-23-2020, 04:57 PM)visiblink Wrote: Install the "Webcat" browser from Storeman. It works. I don't know how well. It was last updated in 2019.
Webcat and most other 3rd party browser (like Web Pirate) on openrepos work by leveraging the Qt-Webkit component.
On Sailfish OS (and, I presume, a few others like Nemo and LuneOS which also use Mer project as a core), this is a bit old: it's still Qt 5.6 inside.
Upgrade would be comming eventually in the future but Jolla has documented that they need to also address other dependencies (like GCC and GLibc) inorder to use newer library. They can't just compile this week's latest upstream code with a several years old compiler and library.
Speaking of which, the default browser uses Mozilla's Gecko engine and is having the same troubles with regards of update according to Jolla official communication.